Frank Fletcher Frank Fletcher i(A124760 works by)
Born: Established: 1 Jan 1932 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 2013
Gender: Male
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1 Finding the Framework to Prepare fo Dialogue with Aborigines Frank Fletcher , single work non-fiction "It is simplistic to tell Euro-Australians that the condition of Aboriginal people is due solely to our (Euro-Australian) acts of injustice and ignorance. Christians cannot adequately prepare for dialogue with the Aborigines [sic.] within such a framework. What is neeeded is a framework that reflects the truth within ourselves as well as about ourselves. The first framework proposed in this essay understands the Euro-Australian "soul" to be caught in a conflict between the modern historical and the primal: a conflict that lies behind much of our treatment of the Aborigines [sic.]. However, this conflict carries within it a deeper conflict and suppression: facing that conflict brings us to the true transforming framework to dispose for dialogue." (Pacifica: Journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity, Vol.10, No.1, February 1997, p25)
1 Towards a Dialogue with Traditional Aboriginal Religion Frank Fletcher , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Pacifica : Journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity , June vol. 9 no. 2 1996; (p. 164-174)

"To prepare ourselves as westerners for a dialogue with the traditional Aboriginal religion will demand an ability to "pass over" to what is clearly quite a different mentality. there are two obstacles to this "passing over". First, where westerners have predominantly developed the intentionality mediation of meaning, Aborigines [sic.] developed the symbolic or aesthetic mediation of meaning. Secondly, the profoundly metaphorical or aesthetic cast of Aboriginal mentality and their religious experience of cosmic manifestations is at odds with western outlook. The Aboriginal religion should be accepted within the tradition of kataphatic manifestation. This understanding should help us accept that the sacred mystery should be approached as intra-cosmic Immanence as well as meta-cosmic Transcendence." (Pacifica 9, June, 1996, p. 164)
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