Staff Directory - Stephen Downs

Areas of Teaching
Philosophy and Theology, World Religions, Christian Ethic

Research Activities and Interests
Contemporary philosophy and culture, world religions, the arts in theological education.

Recent Publications
Review of Charles Birch, Biology and the Riddle of Life Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999, in Pacific Journal of Theology and Science, Vol 1, No 1, 2000.

Stephen Downs, “The Landscape Tradition: A Broader View for Ecotheology. In Earth Revealing – Earth Healing: Ecology and Christian Theology edited by Denis Edwards. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2001.

Review of Wybren de Jong, Identities of Christian Traditions: An Alternative for Essentialism (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000) in Pacifica, June 2002, Vol. 15, No. 2.

Review of Abdullah Saeed, Islam in Australia (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2003) in Colloquium, Volume 37/1 May 2005.

In Press
Entry for “Elizabeth Anstice Baker, in Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement , Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. (In press for 2005.)

Review of Anthony Fisher and Hayden Ramsay (eds.), Faith and Reason: Friends or Foes in the New Millenium Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004. To be published in Australian Book Reviewer.

Work in Progress
“Novel Reflections on Evolution and Religion”