LIBERATION THEOLOGY & RADICAL CHRISTIANITY WITH CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND

Thielicke on soft Christians

To look at many Christians who are soft and effeminate and sweet one would think that their ambition is to be the honeypot of the world. They sweeten and sugar the bitterness of life with an all too easy conception of a loving God. They soften the harshness of guilt with an appallingly childish romanticism. They have retouched hell out of existence and only heaven is on the horizon. When it comes to the devil and temptation they stick their heads in the sand and they go about with a constant, set smile on their faces, pretending that they have overcome the world. For them the kingdom of God, that comes with the savage agonies and travail of history, the excesses of the Anti-christ, and the groans of martyrs, has become an innocuous garden of flowers and their faith a sweet honey they gather from its blossoms. And this is also the reason why the world turns away, sickened and disgusted, from these Christians. People in the world know that life is harder than that, and therefore they know that it is more decent to bear the bitterness of it without sugaring it over.
~ HELMUT THIELICKE, LIFE CAN BEGIN AGAIN: SERMONS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Report on Sub-Theme IV~ THE SERVICE OF THE STATE

On a recent visit to Geneva I found some old reports in the archives of the new WCRC. Here is an extract from Sao Paulo Story: The Eighteenth General Council of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian Order (1960) (being the official report of the Assembly in Brazil, 1959).

These recommendations fall at the end of the Report on Sub-Theme IV~ THE SERVICE OF THE STATE

 

THESE THINGS WE SAY TO THE CHURCHES:

1. Your primary task is to honor God and to win men to Jesus Christ and to teach them how to serve their Lord. From this it follows that your most important service to the State is to raise up citizens of unselfish loyalty and intelligent commitment to the common good who are the greatest need of every State.
2. You should teach and encourage your members to hear and heed the clear call of Christ to social. and political service, remembering that the Lord Jesus is served in such places as social clubs, directors’ board rooms, trade union halls, market places, universities and legislatures as well as under the church’s roof.
3. Your primary relationship as a Church to those of your membership who become officials or authorities in the State is in pastoral service to them. You should pray for them, encourage them to see their work as under God, and surround them with Christian love, not forgetting other leaders of the State that are outside your fellowship.
4. As a Church you have the duty to speak to the State in behalf of justice, freedom, and mercy for all men of every race and station, so becoming the salt and the light which the State requires for its preservation and inspiration.
5. As a Church you have the duty to listen to the Word of God and on the basis of your spiritual insight to speak to the issues of economics and politics in the light of God’s sovereign purposes and out of the insights you receive from the world-wide fellowship of the one Church of Jesus Christ.
6. As a Church you have also the duty to hearten, to assist spiritually, and to pray for all those who because of sincere Christian conscience resist the State and are in danger, persecution, or suffering on account of their resistance even when their action is contrary to majority judgment. So you will keep your prophets.
7. Because of what you are, let your political interest and activity be centered on those issues and causes which help establish the civil conditions of responsible freedom for men to serve their sovereign God.

AND THESE WARNINGS WE GIVE TO THE CHURCHES:

1. Never confuse or identify the Church with any established regime or revolutionary party, however just either may appear to be, remembering that God’s kingdom is his.
2. Never confuse or allow to be confused your Church’s doctrine or order with ideologies such as capitalism, communism, or socialism. Nevertheless your Church must think and speak in thought forms relevant to your times.
3. Never use the power, influence, or prestige of your Church, whether these be great or small, to win from the State benefits for your own Church which would damage the interests of others.
4. Never seek to use the power of the State to enforce upon any man, against his will or conscience, your Church’s interests, ends, or programs.

AND TO THE MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCHES WE SAY THIS:

1.  Be very courageous to serve the Lord Christ as a member of his body and as a citizen of your State despite whatever danger or persecution you may encounter.
2. You have the duty to make informed political decisions and act upon them, but be ever careful not to confuse your personal, family, class, racial, national or Church’s interests with the will of God, remembering Christ’s warnings against hypocrisy.
3. Let your humility as a forgiven sinner keep you teachable, since God is not served by arrogance.
4. In all your service to the State remember the poor and the underprivileged, the outcast, the prisoner, and the weak, for it is in serving them that you can serve Christ.
5. Let your hope and expectation rest in the eternal God, remembering that you are a pilgrim and a servant, so that you may be modest and merciful in political victory and courageous and indomitable in political defeat.
6. Love your enemies.

Religion Online

I was browsing Religion Online today – a wonderfully simple website that provides a staggering wealth of material. Some highlights from this morning:

1. All chapters from this gem of a book: ‘The Use of the Bible in Theology/Evangelical Options’. I especially enjoyed reading:

•   An Evangelical and Catholic Methodology by Robert E. Webber
•   The Use of the Bible in Theology by John Howard Yoder

2. Gems from Walter Brueggemann:

•   Counterscript
•   The Power of Dreams in the Bible

Some Green theo-politics from NZ

http://blog.greens.org.nz/2011/12/21/the-christmas-story-russel-normans-address-in-reply-speech/

Wells on the current crisis

There seems to me an economic process going on that tends to concentrate first wealth and then power in the hands of a small number of adventurous individuals of no very high intellectual type, a huge importation of alien and unassimilable workers, and a sustained disorder of local and political administration. Correlated with this is a great increase in personal luxury and need. In all these respects there is a strong parallelism between the present condition of the United States and the Roman Republic in the time of the early Caesars ; and arguing from these alone one might venture to forecast the steady development of an exploiting and devastating plutocracy, leading perhaps to Cassarism, and a progressive decline in civilization and social solidarity. ~ H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906)

Books read in 2010

This is a list of the 60 books I read in 2010.

• Ana M. Acosta, Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd ed (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).
• Karl Barth, Community, State, and Church: Three Essays, ed. Will Herberg (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2004).
• Karl Barth and William H. Willimon, The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons with Commentary by William H. Willimon, trans. John E. Wilson (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
• Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate: On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth (London: Catholic Truth Society, 2009).
• Daniel Berrigan, Daniel: Under the Siege of the Divine (Farmington: Plough, 1998).
• Phillip Blond, Red Tory: How the Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It (London: Faber and Faber, 2010).
• Roland Boer, Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
• Richard Bourne, Seek the Peace of the City: Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative, Theopolitical Visions (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2009).
• William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos, Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010).
• Robert Crumb, The Book of Genesis Illustrated (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).
• Ben Donald, Springtime for Germany (London: Little, Brown, 2007).
• Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An analysis of concept of pollution and taboo (London: Routledge Classics, 2002).
• Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
• Jacques Ellul, The Political Illusion, Vintage Books ed, trans. Konrad Kellen (New York: Vintage Books, 1972).
• Jacques Ellul, False Presence of the Kingdom, trans. C. Edward Hopkin (New York: Seabury Press, 1972).
• Paul Feldman, Unmasking the State: A Rough Guide to Real Democracy (London: Lupus Books, 2008).
• Paul Fletcher, Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).
• Duane K. Friesen, Christian Peacemaking and International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Scottdale: Herald Press, 1986).
• Jules Gleicher, Political Themes in the Hebrew Scriptures (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
• Paul D. Hanson, Political Engagement as Biblical Mandate (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2010).
• Richard Harries and Stephen Platten, eds., Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics: God and Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2006).
• Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir (London: SCM Press, 2010).
• Miles Hollingworth, Pilgrim City: St Augustine of Hippo and His Innovation in Political Thought (London: T&T Clark, 2010).
• Sandra F. Joireman, ed., Church, State, and Citizen: Christian Approaches to Political Engagement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, Hendrickson Christian Classics (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008).
• Marilyn Lake et al., What’s Wrong with ANZAC?: The Militarisation of Australian History (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2010).
• Philip LeMasters, Discipleship Between Creation and Redemption: Toward a Believers’ Church Social Ethic (Lanham: University Press of America, 1997).
• C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (Glasgow: Collins, 1987).
• George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age, 25th anniversary ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009).
• Karl Löwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
• Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984).
• Wayne A. Meeks, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
• Jeong Kii Min, Sin and Politics: Issues in Reformed Theology (New York: Peter Lang, 2009).
• Richard J. Mouw, Politics and the Biblical Drama (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976).
• Richard J. Mouw, When the Kings Come Marching In: Isaiah and the New Jerusalem, Rev. ed (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002).
• Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History, University of Chicago Press ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
• Oliver O’Donovan, The Just War Revisited, Current Issues in Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Body Politic, ed. and trans. Kate Langdon Forhan, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Paul Ramsey, Christian Ethics and the Sit-In (New York: Association Press, 1961).
• Ian Roberts and Phil Edwards, The Energy Glut (Zed, 2010).
• J. W. Rogerson and John Vincent, The City in Biblical Perspective, Biblical Challenges in the Contemporary World (London: Equinox, 2009).
• Crispin Sartwell, Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008).
• Carl Schmitt, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, trans. G. L. Ulmen (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996).
• Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, Expanded ed. Trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
• James K. A. Smith, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, Church and postmodern culture (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006).
• Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise, ed. Jonathan Israel, trans. Michael Silverstone and Jonathan Israel, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
• William Stringfellow, Conscience & Obedience: The Politics of Romans 13 and Revelation 13 in Light of the Second Coming (Waco: Word Books, 1977).
• William Stringfellow, The Politics of Spirituality, 1st ed. Spirituality and the Christian life (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984).
• Helmut Thielicke, Zwischen Gott und Satan: Die Versuchung Jesu und die Ver¬suchlichkeit des Menschen, R.-Brockhaus-Taschenbücher ; 267 (Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1978).
• Pedro Trigo, Creation and History, trans. Robert R. Barr, Liberation and Theology Series, 10 (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1992).
• Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (London: Pro?le, 2003).
• J. T. Waldman, Megillat Esther (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005).
• Colin Ward, Social Policy: An Anarchist Response (London: Freedom Press, 2000).
• Graham Ward, The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens (London: SCM Press, 2009).
• Stephen H. Webb, American Providence: A Nation with a Mission (New York: Continuum, 2006).
• Aaron Wildavsky, Assimilation versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1993).
• Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Beyond Distributism, Christian Social Thought Series (Grand Rapids: Acton Institute, 2008).

Global Institute of Theology (2010)

John Calvin

I have been selected to attend the second Global Institute of Theology (GIT) in June 2010. I will be representing the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ).

“The GIT will be a place of exposure to the local context and of reflection through a series of courses. It is also a great opportunity to build up an ecumenical leadership for the future,” said Douwe Visser, executive secretary for Theology and Ecumenical Engagement for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC).

GIT is organized by the Office for Theology and Ecumenical Engagement of the WARC. This will most likley be the last thing they do as they are forming a new body, combining with the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) to form a new body called the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). This will represent more than 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide. I will be at the Uniting General Council to witness the merger.

The GIT will be held in Chicago and Grand Rapids in June 2010. The academic partners will be McCormick Seminary in Chicago and Calvin Seminary in Grand Rapids. I will be the only Kiwi going and only one of two from the South Pacific. I’m also one of two from Scotland. In total 70 students from member churches will be there with more than half from the “Global South”.

The GIT will be run by an international faculty of renowned academic theologians. The core course will on the theme of the Uniting General Council: “Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace”. And there will be the following four elective courses:

• Intercultural Theology
• New Directions in Mission for the 21st century
• Reading the Bible in Context
• Theology and Mission of the Church in the Americas

This fantastic opportunity doesn’t come cheap, however. I have no funding for this event, except for a slight discount from the organisers. The PCANZ hadn’t budgeted for this and neither did I. So, if you know of any people or organisations that wish to support young theologians, Reformed theology, and ecumenism, then let me know.

Readers can of course support me for this, and my studies in general, in the usual ways listed here:
http://www.rad.net.nz/886.0.html

If you are wondering who I am, or have forgotten, I’m doing a PhD in political theology at the University of Edinburgh. I’m a PCANZ-supported scholar, with funding primarily from the Council of World Mission and PCANZ. I’m also an Elder of the PCANZ, and a member of St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wellington. When in Edinburgh I attend Greyfriars Kirk.

Some Links for Further Information:

• The Global Institute of Theology
• PCANZ on WARC
• Global Institute of Theology offered in 2010

Books read in 2009

Here is a list of the 59 books I read in 2009 (although there are a few pages left on one or two, which should keep me busy for the next couple of days). This time last year I aimed to read a book related to my thesis each and every week for the year. I easily passed this target, but some books are quite short and easy reads, only taking a sitting or two. Others I reviewed for academic journals and required more attention. This list excludes books of which I only read part or a chapter, and of course journal articles aren’t listed.

It is interesting to look back and see how my reading has changed since the start of my PhD and also worrying what remains to be read and reread. There are over 100 items on my Amazon Wish List alone!

This is my list:

• Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Hannah Arendt, On Violence (London: A Harvest/HBJ book, 1970).
• Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (London: Penguin, 2006).
• Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Cultural memory in the present (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
• Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice, and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1989).
• Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, trans. Ray Brassier, Cultural Memory in the Present (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
• Karl Barth and Johannes Hamel, How to Serve God in a Marxist Land (New York: Association Press, 1959).
• Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1977).
• Pope Benedict, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Trans?guration, 1st ed. in the U.S. (New York: Doubleday, 2007).
• Thomas Bohache, Christology from the Margins (London: SCM Press, 2008).
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1–3, ed. Martin Ruter, Ilse Todt, and John W. de Gruchy, trans. Douglas Stephen Bax (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).
• Martin Buber, Ich und du (Stuttgart: P. Reclam, 1995).
• Will D. Campbell and James Y. Holloway, Up to Our Steeples in Politics (New York: Paulist Press, 1970).
• Dante, Monarchy, ed. and trans. Pru Shaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• Jacques Ellul, The Politics of God and the Politics of Man, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972).
• Jacques Ellul, The New Demons (London & Oxford: Mowbrays, 1975).
• Jacques Ellul, Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation (New York: Seabury Press, 1977).
• Jacques Ellul, Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on His Life and Work, ed. William H. Vanderburg, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (New York: Seabury Press, 1981).
• Jacques Ellul, Money and Power (Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1986).
• Jacques Ellul, Jesus and Marx: From Gospel to Ideology, trans. Joyce Main Hanks (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988).
• Jacques Ellul, Reason for Being: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990).
• Jacques Ellul, Sources and Trajectories: Eight Early Articles by Jacques Ellul That Set the Stage, trans. Marva J. Dawn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).
• Jacques Ellul and Patrick Troude-Chastenet, Jacques Ellul on Religion, Technology, and Politics, trans. Joan Mendès France, South Florida-Rochester-Saint Louis Studies on Religion and the Social Order (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998).
• Danna Nolan Fewell, Circle of Sovereignty: Plotting Politics in the Book of Daniel, 2nd. ed., rev. and extended (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991).
• Duncan B. Forrester and Danus Skene, eds., Just Sharing: A Christian Approach to the Distribution of Wealth, Income and Bene?ts (London: Epworth, 1988).
• Robert C. Fuller, Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
• David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Paradigm 14 (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004), 105.
• S. L. Greenslade, The Church and the Social Order: A Historical Sketch (London: SCM Press, 1948).
• Barry Harvey, Can These Bones Live?: A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008).
• Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian, Theopolitical Visions (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2008).
• Yoram Hazony, The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther, Rev. ed. (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2000).
• Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (New York: Dover Publications, 1988).
• Nathan R. Kerr, Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission (London: SCM Press, 2008).
• Peter Kropotkin, The State: Its Historic Role, Revised, trans. Vernon Richards and Freedom Press, Anarchist Classics (London: Freedom, 1987).
• Hans Küng, Was ich glaube (München: Piper, 2009).
• Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (New York: Vintage Books, 2008).
• Daniel S. Malachuk, Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
• Pierre Manent, A World beyond Politics?: A Defense of the Nation-State, trans. Marc LePain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
• J. Gordon McConville, God and Earthly Power: An Old Testament Political Theology, Genesis–Kings (London: T&T Clark, 2006).
• Bernard McGinn, Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
• J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2005).
• John Milbank, The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate concerning the Supernatural (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).
• John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason, 2nd ed (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
• John Milbank, The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology (London: SCM Press, 2009).
• Ralph Miliband, The State in Capitalist Society (London: Quartet Books, 1973).
• Scott R. Paeth, Exodus Church and Civil Society: Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).
• Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978).
• Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Jürgen Habermas, Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion, ed., with a foreword by Florian Schuller, trans. Brian McNeil (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006).
• John H. Redekop, Politics Under God (Waterloo: Herald Press, 2007).
• Rosemary Radford Ruether and Marion Grau, eds., Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to “Radical Orthodoxy” (New York: T & T Clark, 2006).
• Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
• Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (New York: HarperPerennial, 1999).
• Hagen Schulze, States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
• Martin Sicker, Reading Genesis Politically: An Introduction to Mosaic Political Philosophy (Westport: Praeger, 2002).
• William Stringfellow, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (Waco: Word Books, 1973).
• Peter Stuhlmacher, Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation of Scripture, trans. Roy A. Harrisville (London: S.P.C.K. 1979).
• Jason E. Vickers, Invocation and Assent: The Making and Remaking of Trinitarian Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
• Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 1985).
• Tripp York, Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the Twentieth Century (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2009).

Technical Note: This list was created from BibDesk using a custom export template. The .txt file was saved as .tex and then run through TexShop to produce a PDF, which was exported to Word, then an Apple script replaced the italics with the matching HTML tags. Cool huh!

Should I do a PhD? – Is it too late for me…

Here is the post that inspired me to post again:

http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009/do-it-for-love-and-other-fallacies-to-motivate-grad-students-and-junior-faculty/

AP in turn points to:

• http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/01/2009013001c.htm
• http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/03/2009031301c.htm

Who in turn mentions:
Invisible Adjunct

Of course this is an American analysis, but it may have flow on effects for NZ and UK, especially given the numbers of American PhD worldwide and willing to move to get jobs.

Back to my scholarship….