Terence Lovat Livres

Focusing on the Australian Values Education Program, this book integrates recent international research, offering both theoretical insights and practical applications. It critically examines the shortcomings of low-level accountability methods, such as NAPLAN in Australia, highlighting the need for more effective educational strategies.

Focusing on Bonhoeffer scholarship, this academic journal serves as a vital platform for research and discourse in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. It features peer-reviewed articles that explore various aspects of Bonhoeffer's thought and influence, encouraging scholarly dialogue and advancing understanding of his legacy in the region.

Focusing on a dialogic approach to ethical decision-making in clinical settings, this book advocates for inclusive and reflective conversations among stakeholders. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory, it proposes a proportionist method that balances traditional ethical frameworks with the realities of patient care. Emphasizing mutual understanding of diverse values, the book aims to foster consensus in life-and-death decisions, addressing contemporary challenges posed by advanced medical technologies and multiculturalism.

At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to the current hostility. This is because the common claims of both mainstream and radical Islam that Islam represents the high point of the Abrahamic tradition, and therefore a purification of Judaism and Christianity, have been largely ignored, misunderstood or blatantly rejected by these faiths and therefore by "the West" in general. This rejection has effectively rendered Islam as the poor cousin, if not the illegitimate sibling, of the tradition. In turn, this has created long-term resentment and hostility within Islam as well as robbed the "Judaeo-Christian West" of a rich, inter-faith understanding of the wider Abrahamic tradition. The book explores these claims through textual, historical and theological analyses, proposing that many of them stand up better to critical scrutiny than has been commonly acknowledged. It further proposes that seeing Islam in this way has potential to re-awaken its self-understanding as a leader of accord among the Abrahamic faiths, of the kind that characterized the era of Convivencia when, in medieval Spain, Islam constructed and contributed to advanced civilizations characterized by relatively harmonious co-existence between Muslims, Christians and Jews. The book focuses on the role that a more respected and self-confident Islam could play in forging enhanced inter-faith relations in a world that desperately needs them as it struggles to understand and deal with modern and particularly vicious forms of radical Islamism

Terrorism is the threat of the age, or so we are told, and inevitably associated with it is the word 'Islam'. The notion of the 'Muslim terrorist' has become a colloquialism in Western media. Interestingly, in all the history books about the Second World War, the phrase 'Christian fascist' is rarely seen in spite of the fact that skewed Christian theologies were used liberally by the Nazis to further their hatred. This points to a blind spot in Western understanding about the ways in which religious (and non-religious) ideology can be mutilated to serve hateful ends. We think we see it in Islam but we can't see it in ourselves. This book is dedicated to uncovering the many understandings of Islam we lack and the many misunderstandings we need to overcome.