David Kettle: articles

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(a) published writings

1. Articles

¨      'Truth and Dialogue: Polanyi, Gadamer and Theological Hermeneutics',  Murray Rae (ed), Michael Polanyi and Christian Theology, Paternoster, forthcoming.

 

¨      'Unfinished Dialogue? The Reception of Lesslie Newbigin's Theology', Theology, Vol. CXI, No. 859, January/February 2008, pp. 12-21. A slightly longer version of this article was published under the same title in Stimulus, Vol. 16 No. 2, May 2008, pp. 17-22. [read text]  

¨      Beyond Tragic Spirituality: Victimhood and Christian Hope, Grove Booklet S95, Dec. 2005. [link to further information]  

¨      'Believing without Belonging? Cultural Change Seen in Theological Context', International Review of Mission, Vol. 94 No. 375, October 2005. [link to text] There is an unpublished variant of this article which was written for possible publication in a journal of sociology of religion [read text]

¨      'Engaging with Tragic Spirituality and Victim Sensibility: on the cultural setting of mission in the West today', Mission Studies, Dec. 2004.  

¨      'Victimhood, tragedy and spirituality in contemporary Western culture', Stimulus, New Zealand, Vol. 11, No.2, May 2003. [read text]  

¨      The Gospel in the Haze of Christendom, The Gospel and Our Culture Network Newsletter (North America), Vol. 14, No. 3/4, September/December 2002, pp.5-7. [link to text]  

¨      The Haze of Christendom, The Gospel and Our Culture Network Newsletter (North America), Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2002, pp.1-2, 7-8. [link to text]  

¨      'Lesslie Newbigin, Christendom and the Public Truth of the Gospel', Anvil: an Anglican Evangelical Journal for Theology and Mission, Vol. 18 No. 2, 2001. [read text]  

¨      Newbigin, Polanyi and Impossible Frameworks, Tradition & Discovery, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, 2001-2002, pp. 20-22. [link to text]

 

¨      'Cartesian Habits and the "Radical Line" of Enquiry', Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical, (Missouri, U.S.), Vol.XXVII, No.1, 2000-2001. [link to text]  

¨      'The Primacy of Indwelling': Appraisal: a Journal of Constructive and Post-Critical Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, (U.K.), Vol.2 No.4, October 1999 (a paper originally presented at the national Polanyi Conference organised by Appraisal at Surrey University, April 1999) [to be added]  

 

¨      'The Gospel, Authority and Globalisation': in (ed.) Tom Foust, George Hunsberger, Andrew Kirk, Verner Usdorf, A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission After Newbigin, Eerdmans, 2001. (Edited and enlarged version of a lecture presented at the international conference 'After Newbigin: a Missiological Enquiry in Honour of Lesslie Newbigin', Birmingham 1998  

¨      'When John Spong met Don Cupitt', Stimulus, New Zealand, August 1997. Also published in Evangel 18.1, Spring 2000, pp. 23-28. [read text]

 

¨      'Finding Ourselves in God: Faith and the Culture of Narcissism', Reality, New Zealand, Issue 19, Feb/March 1997 [read text]  

¨      'Bearings on the Sea of Faith', Leading Light, England, Dec. 1995. Reprinted in Stimulus, New Zealand, Vol.5 Issue 1, Feb. 1997. [read text (pdf)]

 

¨      'Orthodoxy, Church, Worship and Mission', in Paul Trebilco (ed), Considering Orthodoxy: Foundations for Faith Today, Colcom Press, Orewa, New Zealand, 1995. [read text]

¨      'Michael Polanyi and Human Identity', Tradition & Discovery, United States 1994, Vol XXI, No.3. [link to text]

 

¨      'The Footprints of God and the Face of Dionysius', Stimulus, New Zealand May 1995. [read text]

 

¨      'Shadowlands: will the real C.S. Lewis please stand up?', Affirm, New Zealand, Winter 1994. [read text]  

¨      'The Battle for Public Truth', Stimulus, New Zealand November 1993. [read text]  

¨      'The Iron is Hot', Stimulus, New Zealand May 1993. [read text]

¨      'New Zealand: The Most Secular State in the World?' (with Professor Philip Gendall), Today's Christian, New Zealand, Dec '92-Jan '93. Printed also in Journeyings, New Zealand. [read text]

 

2. Shorter published pieces including book reviews

¨      Review of Michael Goheen, 'As the Father has Sent Me, I am Sending You': J. E. Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology, Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 2000, published in European Journal of Theology, 11:2, pp. 161-162.

¨      Review of Rowan Williams, Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, T & T Clark, 2000, published in the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Vol.3, No.1, March 2001.

¨      'After Newbigin: Two English Colloquiums', in New Slant, (New Zealand), April 1999.

¨      'The Gospel and Our Culture: Theological reflection', in the newsletter of The Gospel and Our Culture network in North America, 10.2, 1999.

¨      Review of Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth, 1991, published in Diolog (1993) and in Stimulus (May 1994).

¨      'Agenda for kiwis'. Published in New Slant (newsletter of the Gospel & Cultures Trust, New Zealand); reprinted in The Auburn Report, Australia, Feb. 1994.[read text]

¨      Review of Mike Riddell, Godzone: a Traveller's Guide, published in Crosslink, newspaper of the Methodist & Presbyterian Churches in New Zealand.

¨      Review of Michael Medved, Hollywood vs America, 1993, published in Diolog, newspaper of the Anglican Diocese of Wellington.

¨      Observations on worldviews and commitment, published in the newsletter  Gospel & Culture (U.K.), 1992.

 

Shorter published pieces also include 1,000-word 'Gospel & Culture' contributions to IDEA magazine: 'Good, Evil and War' (May 2003) [link to text], 'Righteous Means to a Godly End' (July 2003) [link to text], and 'Embracing Responsibility, Discovering Hope' (January 2004) [link to text], and 'The Fall of Man' (July 2004)  [link to text]

 

Since Spring 1999, David Kettle has edited the Gospel and Our Culture Network newsletter which is published three times a year. Among the pieces written for this have been:  

¨     Survival, fitness and beyond (issue 55, Summer 2009)

¨     On 'the clash of civlizations' (issue 54, Spring 2009)

¨     Trust in the Market (issue 53, Autumn 2008)

¨      Trust in the Market (issue 53, Autumn 2008)

¨      The Ecology of Community (issue 51, Spring 2008)

¨      The Changing Face of Secularism (issue 50, Autumn 2007)

¨      Faith, Historical Identity - and Consumerism (issue 49, Summer 2007)

¨      A Problem Like Maria (issue 48, Spring 2007)

¨      The Culture of Blame (issue 47, Autumn 2006)

¨      Beyond Christendom Spirituality (issue 47, Autumn 2006)

¨      In Service to Health? The Rhetoric of Choice (with Anne Kettle, issue 46, Summer 2006)

¨      Apologetics: confronting two secular ideas of faith (issue 45, Spring 2006)

¨      Beyond retrieval (issue 44, Autumn 2005)

¨      'Vague faith' or 'vague Christianity'?: shifting perceptions of popular belief (issue 43, Summer 2005)

¨      Mockery, Protest and Debate (issue 42, Spring 2005)

¨      Liquid Church for Liquid Modernity? (issue 41, Autumn 2004)

¨      The Culture of Feelings (issue 40, Summer 2004)

¨      The Distracted Public (issue 37, Summer 2003)

¨      Faith in Public (issue 35, Autumn 2002)

¨      Consumers and Legislators (issue 31, Summer 2001)

¨      Dark Materials? (issue 30, Spring 2001)

¨      On Finding Personal Worth (issue 25, Summer 1999)

¨      On Being in Control of Your Life (issue 24, Spring 1999)

(b) unpublished writings

these remain to be added