Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, sometimes grouped together as Australasia, are lands in which Christianity sits in a remarkable awkwardness. This landmark volume, which includes contributions by Australia's and New Zealand's leading historians and theologians, explores the way that Christianity has made a home «down under.» Individual essays provide case studies in history, biography, missiology, theology, literature, and hymnody. This work also includes broad-ranging scholarly debate on gospel and culture, on the nature of history, and on the differing claims of contextual and non-contextual theologies. Mapping the Landscape: Essays in Australian and New Zealand Christianity honours the distinguished Australasian historian, Professor Ian Breward, who for over thirty-five years has taken a pre-eminent position in «mapping» the religious landscapes of Australia and New Zealand.

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The Editors: Susan Emilsen and William W. Emilsen lecture in church history at the United Theological College in Sydney, Australia. Both received their doctorates in history from the University of Sydney. Susan Emilsen is the author of A Whiff of Heresy and several monographs on Australian educational history. William W. Emilsen is the author of Violence and Atonement (Peter Lang, 1994) and several monographs on Gandhi and Christianity. Together, they edit Uniting Church Studies.

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Contents: Susan Emilsen/William W. Emilsen: Introduction: Mapping the Landscape - Muriel Porter: Ian Breward: an Australasian life - Lawrence D. McIntosh: Bibliography of the Writings of Ian Breward - Hilary M. Carey: 'Attempts and Attempts': Responses to Failure in Pre- and Early Victorian Missions to the Australian Aborigines - William W. Emilsen: The Origins of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress - Denham Grierson: History as Narrative Fiction - David Hilliard: Australian Anglicanism and the Radical Sixties - Christiaan Mostert: Is a Non-contextual Theology Viable? - Lawrence Nemer: Sydney: A 'Mission Station' of New Guinea - Stuart Piggin: Jesus in Australian History and Culture - Roger C. Thompson: Pastor Extraordinaire: A Portrait of Hector Harrison - John Tonkin: Anglican Inclusiveness in Action: James Richard Payne as Dean of Perth, 1962-1968 - Allan K. Davidson: New Zealand History and Religious Myopia - Graeme Ferguson: Chunuk Bair and the Search for Identity - Colin Gibson: Mapping the New Zealand Landscape: A Survey of the Hymnic Tradition - Peter Matheson: The Contours of Christian Theology in Aotearoa New Zealand - Sarah Mitchell: Inhabiting the Landscape: Community Based Ministry Training in Aotearoa New Zealand 1991-1999 - Ruth Page: Culture and Gospel - Clive Pearson: Christ and Context Down Under: Mapping Trans Tasman Christologies - John Roxborogh: Mapping the Evangelical Landscape in New Zealand - Jane Simpson: Honouring Religious Diversity in New Zealand Education after the Treaty of Waitangi, 1840-1877.