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Research paper thumbnail of Anglo-German Antagonism in Polynesia: The London Missionary Society under Imperial German Rule in Samoa, 1900-1914

Australian Journal of Mission Studies, 2022

Purposes of Australian Association for Mission Studies • Promote the theological, biblical, histo... more Purposes of Australian Association for Mission Studies • Promote the theological, biblical, historical, practical, and contextual study of mission, local and global. • Promote engagement with the cultures and people with whom Christians share and explore the gospel, including, in particular, Australian Indigenous voices. • Encourage cooperation and sharing of research and experience among individuals and institutions engaged in mission. • Bring together, through networks, conferences, and seminars, those engaged in mission studies. • Stimulate publications in missiology, including a journal.

Research paper thumbnail of The Theological Component of World Conflict: the Example of the Anglo- German Antagonism 1914-18

St Mark’s Review, No. 209, No. 3 (2009), 39-58.

Research paper thumbnail of The conundrum of Anglican identity revisited

St Mark’s Review, No. 238 (December 2016), 110-115

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Stand on the Jewish Question during the Third Reich

Research paper thumbnail of The struggle for Anzac Day 1916-1930 and the role of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee

Journal of the Royal Australian historical society, 2002

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 88, Part 1 (2002), 54-74.

Research paper thumbnail of The University of Queensland's official reaction to the Great War, 1914-15

At the outset let it be stressed that this article is concerned with the official response of The... more At the outset let it be stressed that this article is concerned with the official response of The University of Queensland to the outbreak of war between the British Empire and her allies on the one hand and the German Empire and her allies on the other. Indeed, educated Australians generally who were seriously concerned with the consequences of Great Power rivalries for the out-lying dominions paid close attention to world politics, as Leonie Foster has clearly demonstrated in her work on the Australian chapter of the Round Table. It was understood by leading citizens that increasing imperial German truculence in Europe and overseas in the decade prior to 1914 had dire implications for the security of the Pacific dominions in particular. It is the aim of this contribution to recall the reality of the imperial German threat to the Pacific dominions. It is not concerned with the class struggle in Queensland which the involvement in the war clearly intensified. That is another subject...

Research paper thumbnail of David John Garland, priest: 'A triton among the Minnows': A preacher both powerful and persuasive

When in 1907 Archbishop St Clair Donaldson of Brisbane was trying to recommend the Revd David Gar... more When in 1907 Archbishop St Clair Donaldson of Brisbane was trying to recommend the Revd David Garland for an appointment in Sydney diocese, he wrote to the Ordinary.

Research paper thumbnail of Church And State In Post-Reformation Germany, 1530–1914

Church and State in Old and New Worlds, 2011

This chapter explores broad church conceptions of the established Churches in Great Britain as de... more This chapter explores broad church conceptions of the established Churches in Great Britain as definers of a British national culture and national mission during the second half of the long nineteenth century. This period marked the height of the United Kingdom's global power and influence—when its industrial economy was pre-eminent in the world, its merchant marine carried the lion's share of world commerce and its navy dominated the seas. The chapter discusses how leading broad church thinkers—among them F.D.Maurice, J.R. Seeley, A.P. Stanley,Matthew Arnold, Brooke FossWestcott, andMaxMuller in the Church of England, and NormanMacLeod, John Caird, and John Tulloch in the Church of Scotland—maintained that the national Churches were to provide moral education, encourage intellectual cultivation, promote an ideal of social service, and strengthen national unity. Keywords:broad church; Church of Scotland; Churches; Great Britain; J.R. Seeley; John Tulloch; Matthew Arnold; national culture; national mission

Research paper thumbnail of Sydney Professor G.A. Wood and the Great War 1914-1918

History of Education Review, 2016

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a le... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a leading Australian scholar at the University of Sydney, concerning the involvement of the British Empire in the Great War of 1914-1918. Design/methodology/approach The author has examined all of Professor Wood’s extant commentaries on the Great War which are held in the archives of the University of Sydney as well as the biographical material on Professor Wood by leading Australian scholars. The methodology and approach is purely empirical. Findings The sources consulted revealed Professor Wood’s deeply held conviction about the importance of Christian values in the formation of political will and his belief that the vocation of politics is a most serious one demanding from statesmen the utmost integrity in striving to ensure justice and freedom, respect for the rights of others and the duty of the strong to protect the weak against unprincipled and ruthless states. Originality/value The p...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Dreaming Spires? Cathedrals in a new ageDreaming Spires? Cathedrals in a new age, ed. PlattenStephen and LewisChristopher (SPCK2006), 162 pp, £12.99 pbk

Research paper thumbnail of The Politicisation of Martin Luther in the German Democratic Republic

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 2011

This article provides an account of one of the strategies employed by the post-war East German st... more This article provides an account of one of the strategies employed by the post-war East German state to restrict the influence of the Protestant churches in the new Soviet order. Under the leadership of Erich Honecke the regime seized upon the idea of portraying Martin Luther as a genuine bourgeois revolutionary and harbinger of the proletarian revolution. Hence the regime permitted the churches formally to mark the Reformation in 1967 and later the 500th anniversary of Luther's birth in 1983. In this way it was hoped to persuade Protestants to acknowledge the ideological leadership of the ruling party. The church was thus forced to accept a role of being “the church in socialism”. The government expected that church people would gradually desert the church and accommodate themselves to the rule of so-called “real existing socialism”; a state of affairs which, of course, never came to pass.

Research paper thumbnail of Anglicanism and Anzac Observance

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 2006

Research has shown that the precise origins of Anzac commemoration are to be found in the work of... more Research has shown that the precise origins of Anzac commemoration are to be found in the work of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC) founded on 10 January 1916. The precursor to that committee was the Brisbane Recruitment Committee consisting of leading Brisbane businessmen and municipal leaders, the secretary of which was an energetic Dubliner and Anglican priest, one Canon David John Garland. The article shows that while the Anzac Day “liturgy” devised by Garland had to take account of religious/theological divisions as well as secular attitudes, underneath it lay a specific Christian purpose, namely to commemorate the fallen, console the bereaved and call the nation to penitence for the sin of war.

Research paper thumbnail of Michael P. Jensen: Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012; pp. 194

Journal of Religious History, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Fiction from Tegel Prison 1943-45: His Reflections on the Dark Side of Cultural Protestantism in Nazi Germany

Sydney Studies in Religion, Sep 19, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Doreen M. Rosman: Evangelicals and Culture. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2011; pp. x + 196

Journal of Religious History, Dec 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The crisis in West German historiography: Origins and trends∗

Research paper thumbnail of The Great War as Ideological Conflict—An Australian Perspective

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Conspirator Against the Hitler Regime: The Motivation of a German Protestant Revolutionary

War and Society, 1999

War and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1999), 25-40.

Research paper thumbnail of The coolie labour question and German colonial policy in Samoa, 1900–1914

The Journal of Pacific History, 1973

Page 1. The Coolie Labour Question and German Colonial Policy in Samoa, 1900-1914 JOHN A. MOSES A... more Page 1. The Coolie Labour Question and German Colonial Policy in Samoa, 1900-1914 JOHN A. MOSES AS THE UNRESTRICTED INFLUX OF COOLIES DESIRED BY MOST OF THE PLANTERS as well as the Chinese Governments ...

Research paper thumbnail of The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871-1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism

Pacific Affairs, 2001

... Deakin University Joan Beaumont Markku Ruotsila. British and American Anticommunism before th... more ... Deakin University Joan Beaumont Markku Ruotsila. British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. ... 1 Eg, M. Leffler, The Cold War: What Do "We Now Know"?', American Historical Review, civ (1999), esp. 519-23-xxiv. 2: June 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Anglo-German Antagonism in Polynesia: The London Missionary Society under Imperial German Rule in Samoa, 1900-1914

Australian Journal of Mission Studies, 2022

Purposes of Australian Association for Mission Studies • Promote the theological, biblical, histo... more Purposes of Australian Association for Mission Studies • Promote the theological, biblical, historical, practical, and contextual study of mission, local and global. • Promote engagement with the cultures and people with whom Christians share and explore the gospel, including, in particular, Australian Indigenous voices. • Encourage cooperation and sharing of research and experience among individuals and institutions engaged in mission. • Bring together, through networks, conferences, and seminars, those engaged in mission studies. • Stimulate publications in missiology, including a journal.

Research paper thumbnail of The Theological Component of World Conflict: the Example of the Anglo- German Antagonism 1914-18

St Mark’s Review, No. 209, No. 3 (2009), 39-58.

Research paper thumbnail of The conundrum of Anglican identity revisited

St Mark’s Review, No. 238 (December 2016), 110-115

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Stand on the Jewish Question during the Third Reich

Research paper thumbnail of The struggle for Anzac Day 1916-1930 and the role of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee

Journal of the Royal Australian historical society, 2002

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 88, Part 1 (2002), 54-74.

Research paper thumbnail of The University of Queensland's official reaction to the Great War, 1914-15

At the outset let it be stressed that this article is concerned with the official response of The... more At the outset let it be stressed that this article is concerned with the official response of The University of Queensland to the outbreak of war between the British Empire and her allies on the one hand and the German Empire and her allies on the other. Indeed, educated Australians generally who were seriously concerned with the consequences of Great Power rivalries for the out-lying dominions paid close attention to world politics, as Leonie Foster has clearly demonstrated in her work on the Australian chapter of the Round Table. It was understood by leading citizens that increasing imperial German truculence in Europe and overseas in the decade prior to 1914 had dire implications for the security of the Pacific dominions in particular. It is the aim of this contribution to recall the reality of the imperial German threat to the Pacific dominions. It is not concerned with the class struggle in Queensland which the involvement in the war clearly intensified. That is another subject...

Research paper thumbnail of David John Garland, priest: 'A triton among the Minnows': A preacher both powerful and persuasive

When in 1907 Archbishop St Clair Donaldson of Brisbane was trying to recommend the Revd David Gar... more When in 1907 Archbishop St Clair Donaldson of Brisbane was trying to recommend the Revd David Garland for an appointment in Sydney diocese, he wrote to the Ordinary.

Research paper thumbnail of Church And State In Post-Reformation Germany, 1530–1914

Church and State in Old and New Worlds, 2011

This chapter explores broad church conceptions of the established Churches in Great Britain as de... more This chapter explores broad church conceptions of the established Churches in Great Britain as definers of a British national culture and national mission during the second half of the long nineteenth century. This period marked the height of the United Kingdom's global power and influence—when its industrial economy was pre-eminent in the world, its merchant marine carried the lion's share of world commerce and its navy dominated the seas. The chapter discusses how leading broad church thinkers—among them F.D.Maurice, J.R. Seeley, A.P. Stanley,Matthew Arnold, Brooke FossWestcott, andMaxMuller in the Church of England, and NormanMacLeod, John Caird, and John Tulloch in the Church of Scotland—maintained that the national Churches were to provide moral education, encourage intellectual cultivation, promote an ideal of social service, and strengthen national unity. Keywords:broad church; Church of Scotland; Churches; Great Britain; J.R. Seeley; John Tulloch; Matthew Arnold; national culture; national mission

Research paper thumbnail of Sydney Professor G.A. Wood and the Great War 1914-1918

History of Education Review, 2016

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a le... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the views of Professor George Arnold Wood, a leading Australian scholar at the University of Sydney, concerning the involvement of the British Empire in the Great War of 1914-1918. Design/methodology/approach The author has examined all of Professor Wood’s extant commentaries on the Great War which are held in the archives of the University of Sydney as well as the biographical material on Professor Wood by leading Australian scholars. The methodology and approach is purely empirical. Findings The sources consulted revealed Professor Wood’s deeply held conviction about the importance of Christian values in the formation of political will and his belief that the vocation of politics is a most serious one demanding from statesmen the utmost integrity in striving to ensure justice and freedom, respect for the rights of others and the duty of the strong to protect the weak against unprincipled and ruthless states. Originality/value The p...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Dreaming Spires? Cathedrals in a new ageDreaming Spires? Cathedrals in a new age, ed. PlattenStephen and LewisChristopher (SPCK2006), 162 pp, £12.99 pbk

Research paper thumbnail of The Politicisation of Martin Luther in the German Democratic Republic

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 2011

This article provides an account of one of the strategies employed by the post-war East German st... more This article provides an account of one of the strategies employed by the post-war East German state to restrict the influence of the Protestant churches in the new Soviet order. Under the leadership of Erich Honecke the regime seized upon the idea of portraying Martin Luther as a genuine bourgeois revolutionary and harbinger of the proletarian revolution. Hence the regime permitted the churches formally to mark the Reformation in 1967 and later the 500th anniversary of Luther's birth in 1983. In this way it was hoped to persuade Protestants to acknowledge the ideological leadership of the ruling party. The church was thus forced to accept a role of being “the church in socialism”. The government expected that church people would gradually desert the church and accommodate themselves to the rule of so-called “real existing socialism”; a state of affairs which, of course, never came to pass.

Research paper thumbnail of Anglicanism and Anzac Observance

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 2006

Research has shown that the precise origins of Anzac commemoration are to be found in the work of... more Research has shown that the precise origins of Anzac commemoration are to be found in the work of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC) founded on 10 January 1916. The precursor to that committee was the Brisbane Recruitment Committee consisting of leading Brisbane businessmen and municipal leaders, the secretary of which was an energetic Dubliner and Anglican priest, one Canon David John Garland. The article shows that while the Anzac Day “liturgy” devised by Garland had to take account of religious/theological divisions as well as secular attitudes, underneath it lay a specific Christian purpose, namely to commemorate the fallen, console the bereaved and call the nation to penitence for the sin of war.

Research paper thumbnail of Michael P. Jensen: Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012; pp. 194

Journal of Religious History, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Fiction from Tegel Prison 1943-45: His Reflections on the Dark Side of Cultural Protestantism in Nazi Germany

Sydney Studies in Religion, Sep 19, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Doreen M. Rosman: Evangelicals and Culture. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2011; pp. x + 196

Journal of Religious History, Dec 1, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of The crisis in West German historiography: Origins and trends∗

Research paper thumbnail of The Great War as Ideological Conflict—An Australian Perspective

Research paper thumbnail of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Conspirator Against the Hitler Regime: The Motivation of a German Protestant Revolutionary

War and Society, 1999

War and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1999), 25-40.

Research paper thumbnail of The coolie labour question and German colonial policy in Samoa, 1900–1914

The Journal of Pacific History, 1973

Page 1. The Coolie Labour Question and German Colonial Policy in Samoa, 1900-1914 JOHN A. MOSES A... more Page 1. The Coolie Labour Question and German Colonial Policy in Samoa, 1900-1914 JOHN A. MOSES AS THE UNRESTRICTED INFLUX OF COOLIES DESIRED BY MOST OF THE PLANTERS as well as the Chinese Governments ...

Research paper thumbnail of The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871-1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism

Pacific Affairs, 2001

... Deakin University Joan Beaumont Markku Ruotsila. British and American Anticommunism before th... more ... Deakin University Joan Beaumont Markku Ruotsila. British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. ... 1 Eg, M. Leffler, The Cold War: What Do "We Now Know"?', American Historical Review, civ (1999), esp. 519-23-xxiv. 2: June 2002

Research paper thumbnail of 'The Anzacs' Battle with the Historians' - review article by Salvatore Barbones.

QADRANT ONLINE, 2019

Review of J. Moses with P. Overlack 'First Know Your Enemy: Comprehending Imperial German War Aim... more Review of J. Moses with P. Overlack 'First Know Your Enemy: Comprehending Imperial German War Aims & Deciphering the Enigma of Kultur'

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In the search for the deeper causes of the ‘War to end all wars’ the reading public has been presented with countless titles by military, diplomatic and intellectual historians. Some of these have, however, been motivated by a desire to show how their authors would have preferred the past events to have been, so as to promote some present-day agenda. This is the fallacy of ‘presentism’. John Moses was trained at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen by professors committed to the Rankean tradition of showing ‘how it actually was’, as far as humanly possible, based on diligent archival research and with the strictest objectivity and emotional detachment. Consequently, both Moses and Overlack have been at pains to identify the essential peculiarity of the Kaiser’s Germany and have focused sharply on the question of how its war planning impinged on Australasia.