Complete Index of articles

A back index of issues of Stimulus up to the end of 2006 is available here. (Still being updated—the meantime you can check out the later issues below.)

Articles online

We hold a selection of articles and reviews online. These are accessible through the back issues listed below.

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Back issues/index

Kevin Ward on whether the church has a future in NZ. Various perspectives on Mel Gibson’s The Passion. A perspective on homosexuality from a former Lesbian. How do we respond to the publishing of the human genome?

Vol 12 Issue 2 May 2004

A churchless future?
Sacrifice
The third way
Genesis and genetics

Peter Dennison sheds some light. Bryan Gilling recounts early NZ evangelists. Lyall Perris examines euthanasia. Gerald Baker considers Geering and God. Jenny Beck discusses the incarnation. David Cashmore thinks historically about Israel.

Vol 12 Issue 1 February 2004

The lamp and the light
Rushing into the kingdom
What’s wrong with euthanasia
Christianity without God

Other issues with their table of contents online include:

Sexuality and Christ
James K. Baxter
The Christian Mind
Worship: Part One
Worship: Part Two
Science and Faith
Karaiti and Culture: Maori Experiences of Christianity

Rikk Watts on Genesis 1. Gareth Jones on embryos and people. Nicola Hoggard Creegan on the theological foundations of the current ecological crisis.

Vol 12 Issue 4 November 2004

Making sense of Genesis 1
Embryos and people
Theology and the ecological crisis

Guest edited by Tim Bulkeley of Carey Baptist College. How IT is being used in the church – bible study on the net, hypertext bible commentaries, blogging, technology and worship, technology and missions, and a church’s e-zine.

Vol 12 Issue 3 August 2004

IT, CULTURE & THE CHURCH
Blogging
Studying the bible for free
Praying with machines

Guest edited by Martin Sutherland of Carey Baptist College. Includes missional theology, the missional church in Titus, the marketplace and the missional church, a missional model for preaching, and the missional shift of youth ministry.

Vol 13 Issue 1 February 2005

THE MISSIONAL CHURCH

The kingdom made visible
Grace manifest
Marketplace and missional church

Judaism and Christianity; reviews of some key books on Open Theism; some further thoughts on the missional church.

Vol 13 Issue 2 May 2005

Jesus, justice and Judaism
How to avoid speaking of “Judaism” and “Christianity”
Open theism’s doctrine of God

Once again it’s election time and many of us are wondering how, perhaps even whether, we should vote. Special issue on Colloquium on Gospel, Culture, and Public Policy. How should Christians engage and pursue public politics?

Vol 13 Issue 3 August 2005

GOSPEL CULTURE & THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Gospel as public truth
Wiremu Tamihana
What language to borrow?

A series of articles focusing on evangelicals and social justice. Includes an analysis of the religious data collected in the last census along with a parallel analysis of the state of the church in the US.

Vol 13 Issue 4 November 2005

EVANGELICALS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Church and public forum
Religious affiliations
Future of religious right

Various articles… Just when we think we have domesticated the New Testament, some iconoclast comes along and shakes up our ideas. Mark Strom shows us how radical Paul’s ideas about society and leadership actually were.

Vol 14 Issue 2 May 2006

Paul and leadership
Parmenter’s Jerusalem
Void, Gap, Nada: Baxter’s Jerusalem Works
Who is really in the “Gnosis”?

Part 2 of business ethics. How we speak the gospel without having our message hijacked by the words we use. How much gospel is there in the Da Vinci code?

Vol 14 Issue 1 February 2006

Truth versus values
Evangelicals/business ethics
Gospel of the Da Vinci Code
The gift of love

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Papers presented at the conference of the Forum of the Christian Left (FOCaL). Key papers from Peter Lineham, Chris Marshall, James Harding, Anthony Dancer.

Vol 14 Issue 3 August 2006

FOCaL Conference
The fundamentalist agenda
Confronting Ahab
A prophet of God’s justice
Towards a just society

Papers presented at a conference on “Christianity and the Feminine”. Much discussion about The Da Vinci Code and the myths and conspiracies behind it.

Vol 14 Issue 4 November 2006

Christianity and the Feminine
Dangerous Fiction
The Da Vinci Code as Myth
The Mary mergers
Da Vinci conspiracies

Islam’s growing challenge to Christianity—a historical perspective. What Sharia law is, how it works, and why we should be concerned. Contemporary Islamic thought concerning the West.

Vol 15 Issue 2 May 2007

Islam’s challenge
Muslim students in New Zealand
The challenge of Islamic law
Religious freedom

Disengagement with the Bible in postmodernity. Preaching. Postmodernity and science. Lloyd Geering: reviews of his autobiography, essays, plus a report on one of his public meetings.

Vol 15 Issue 1 February 2007

Re-engaging with the Bible
The ministry of preaching
Dawkins, the Bishop, and God
A religious atheist?

Papers from a one-day Colloquium on Creation Care at Bible College, Henderson, on May 22nd. This Colloquium was jointly sponsored by A Rocha, an emerging Christian environmental organization.

Vol 15 Issue 4 November 2007

Being just...in a climate of change
Experiences of creation and community
For the beauty of the earth

Articles on forgiveness—personal and in foreign policy. A response to re-engaging with the bible. Paul, Karl Barth and Mike Grimshaw.

Vol 15 Issue 3 August 2007

Forgiveness, identity, and witness
Forgiveness as foreign policy
The bible and the ordinary believer

Articles on the thought of Lloyd Geering written by a Chinese Scholar, Kwan Kai Man.

Vol 16 Issue 1 February 2008

Why is Lloyd Geering still important?
Why projectionism makes little sense
Geering and the quest for meaning

Richard Dawkins on God, Gareth Jones on embryonic stem cells, David Kettle on Lesslie Newbigin.

Vol 16 Issue 2 May 2008

Richard Dawkins and the God controversy
Evolution not so robust
Lesslie Newbigin
The scandal of Cana

What is the story of Scripture? The gap between Religious Studies and the Church—the ghost of Geering. How healthy are our churches in NZ and how do we know? Who is my neighbour?

Vol 16 Issue 4 November 2008

Dramatic developments in biblical theology
Cold winds from religious studies?
Church health” a New Zealand case study

STIMULUS

THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

How does jubilee apply to wealth and ownership and how we vote this year? How does the reign of God apply to human politics?

Vol 16 Issue 3 August 2008

Wealth and jubilee
Australasian spirituality
Christian immigrants and church in NZ
The reign of God and human politics

Celebrating the 500th year since the birth of John Calvin. Acknowledging the 200th year since the birth of Charles Darwin.

Vol 17 Issue 2 May 2009

John Calvin in Godzone
An ideal philosophy of religion?
Sacrificial victim
Ruptured Romans

The Christian symbolism in Nigel Brown’s art and a response by Nigel Brown. Interview with Donna Dinsmore about public worship. Cultural perspectives on agriculture.

Vol 17 Issue 1 February 2009

Christian symbolism of Nigel Brown
How then should we worship?
Christianity, climate change, sustainability

Our Darwin issue, with more. Is the emerging church church and how do we know? If evolution occurs, how do we deal with the question of evil? Further on “show me the money” - Jesus and the temple and the temple tax.

Vol 17 Issue 4 November 2009

Emerging church?
Evolution and evil
An evolutionary confession of faith
Show me the money part 2

Apocalyptic at Thessalonica and thoughts for the church. God and money with thoughts about the current recession. The death of the secularism hypothesis.

Vol 17 Issue 3 August 2009

Thessalonian apocalyptic
Forty years in a narrow space
Show me the money!
God is back