This book presents cultural representations of Christ embedded in the imagination and the contested myths of Australian life. The essays attest to the variety and subtlety of neglected or unspoken representations of Christ in Australia. In a land that has often declared itself secular or post-Christian, this volume looks into the Australian imagination, in between the sacred and secular, to see Christ in Australia.

Provides new perspectives on the reception of Christ beyond the church in Australian culture and history Makes an important contribution to the articulation of an Australian understanding of Jesus Christ Challenges assumptions about the relationship between sacred and secular in the Australian context

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Kerrie Handasyde is Academic Dean and Associate Professor History of Christianity at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.

Sean Winter is Head of College and Associate Professor of New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.

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Ch 1 Seeing Christ in Australia: Introduction.- Part I Enduring Visions.- Ch 2 Christ as Lost Innocent: Lost Faith, Fickle Providence, and the Land's Sacrificial Demands.- Ch 3 Christ as Bushranger: Ned Kelly as a Secular Christ.- Ch 4 Christ as Storyteller: Seeing Christ in the Lands Now Called Australia.- Ch 5 Christ as Anzac: How Is 'Sacrifice' Understood in Australian Educational Contexts?.- Ch 6 Christ as Work/er?: Labour and Redemption in Kylie Tennant's Foveaux.- Part II Contemporary Sightings.- Ch 7 Christ as Princess of Pop.- Ch 8 Christ as Friend Betrayed: Queer Christology and the Catholic Imagination of Justin O'Brien.- Ch 9 Christ as Strange(r): The Elusiveness of Jesus in the Work of Nick Cave and Julie Dowling.- Ch 10 Christ as Prophet: Redemption and Prophecy in the Novels of Patrick White, Tim Winton and Alexis Wright.- Ch 11 Christ as Son and Brother: Jesus in Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus.- Ch 12 Christ as Saviour of the West.