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Associate Professor of Theology, University of Divinity, Australia.

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PhD., University of St Andrews, Scotland

ADipMin., Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia

BTheol., Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia

B. Ed., University of Melbourne, Australia

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Books 

  • P. T. Forsyth: Life and Thought. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, forthcoming.

  • T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

  • Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth. London: T&T Clark, 2013.

  • Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2022. With Rod Pattenden.

  • Tikkun Olam – To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts. Eugene: Pickwick, 2014.

  • Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth. Eugene: Pickwick, 2013.


 

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

  • ‘Dying Without a Script: Some Theological Reflections on Voluntary Assisted Dying’. Zadok Papers S267 (2023): 5–10.

  • ‘Daring Imagination’. In Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology, edited by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden, 1–26. Eugene: Pickwick, 2022.

  • ‘“My past has thrown me out”: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Plays in an Age of Trauma’. In Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology, edited by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden, 220–50. Eugene: Pickwick, 2022.

  • ‘“Live Bread for the Starved Folk”: Some Perspectives on Holy Communion’. Ecclesiology 18, no. 1 (2022): 57–77.

  • ‘The Powers of Death: Recognition, Resistance, Resurrection’. Jurnal Jaffray 19, no. 1 (2021): 1–26.

  • ‘Creation, God, and the Coronavirus’. Theology 123, no. 5 (2020): 346–52, with Mark G. Brett.

  • ‘Sanctification’. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, edited by George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson, 303–16. Chichester: Blackwell, 2020.

  • ‘Race and Christianity in Australia’. Post-Christendom Studies 4 (2019–2020): 25–74.

  • ‘Christ’s Body, the Church’s Supper, and the Real Presence in Social Distance’. Stimulus 27, no. 1 (2020): e1–e5. Online: https://hail.to/laidlaw-college/publication/Y6IeSLx/article/kxtnZnQ.

  • ‘Theologies of the Cross: James Denney and P. T. Forsyth’. In History of Scottish Theology, Volume III: The Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Late-Twentieth Century, edited by David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott, 35–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

  • ‘“A Pretty Decent Sort of Bloke”: Towards the Quest for an Australian Jesus’. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 75, no. 4 (2019): e1–e10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v75i4.5545.

  • ‘On the Gifts of Street Art’. Zadok 146, Summer (2019): 13–15.

  • ‘Dying Without a Script: Some Theological Reflections on Voluntary Assisted Dying’. Colloquium 51, no. 1 (2019): 25–39.

  • ‘Reformation and Secularity’. Journal of Reformed Theology 12, no. 1 (2018): 3–21.

  • ‘P. T. Forsyth’. In T&T Clark Companion to Atonement, edited by Adam J. Johnson, 499–503. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

  • ‘Holiness in Victorian and Edwardian England: Some Ecclesial Patterns and Theological Requisitions’. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73, no. 4 (2017): e1–e10. DOI:10.4102/hts.v73i4.4539.

  • ‘Habits as Signs: Some Reflections on the Ethical Shape of Christian Community’. International Journal of Practical Theology 21, no. 1 (2017): 27–41.

  • ‘Ethnicity, Social Identity, and the Transposable Body of Christ’. Mission Studies 34, no. 2 (2017): 220–45.

  • ‘Euthanasia: Some Theological Considerations for Living Responsibly’. Pacifica 29, no. 3 (2016): 221–43.

  • ‘The Catholicity of Time in the Work of George Mackay Brown’. Pacifica 29, no. 1 (2016): 22–44.

  • ‘Semper Reformanda as a Confession of Crisis’. In Always Being Reformed: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Reformed Theology, edited by David H. Jensen, 43–73. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016.

  • ‘Humanising the Public Commons: A Response to Simone Sinn’s “Religious Communities and Civil Society”’. In Religion and State: A Comparison between Christianity and Islam. Geneva: John Knox Press, 2016.

  • ‘Contribution 7: Six (draft) propositions on marriage’. In Christian Perspectives on Marriage: A Discussion Document, edited by Bruce Hamill, et al., 25–27. Wellington: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2014.

  • ‘John Calvin: Servant of the Word’. In Calvin: The Man and the Legacy, edited by Murray Rae, Peter Matheson and Brett Knowles, 13–40. Hindmarsh: ATF Press, 2014.

  • ‘Introduction’. In ‘Tikkun Olam’ – To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts, edited by Jason A. Goroncy, 1–20. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2014.

  • ‘Preaching sub specie crucis: An Introduction to the Preaching Ministry of P. T. Forsyth’. In Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth, edited by Jason A. Goroncy, 1–66. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2013.

  • ‘Foreword’. In Art That Tells the Story: A Conversation Guide, edited by Christopher R. Brewer, 2–5. Grand Rapids: Gospel through Shared Experience, 2013.

  • ‘“Tha mi a’ toirt fainear dur gearan”: J. McLeod Campbell and P. T. Forsyth on the Extent of Christ’s Vicarious Ministry’. In Evangelical Calvinism: Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church, edited by Myk Habets and Robert Grow, 253–86. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2012.

  • ‘The Final Sanity is Complete Sanctity: Universal Holiness in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (1848–1921)’. In “All Shall Be Well”: Explorations in Universalism and Christian Theology, from Origen to Moltmann, edited by Gregory MacDonald, 249–79. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2011.

  • ‘Church and Civil Society in the Reformed Tradition: An Old Relationship and a New Communion’. Reformed World 61, no. 3 (2011): 195–210.

  • ‘Carrying’. In Notes on Mark’s Gospel: GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel A – Unit 16 by Ina Taylor, edited by Holly Cole and Lee J. Taylor, np. Haddenham: Folens, 2010.

  • ‘The Elusiveness, Loss, and Cruciality of Recovered Holiness: Some Biblical and Theological Observations’. International Journal of Systematic Theology 10, no. 2 (2008): 195–209.

  • ‘“That God May Have Mercy Upon All”: A Review-Essay of Matthias Gockel’s Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election’. Journal of Reformed Theology 2, no. 2 (2008): 113–30.

  • ‘Fighting Troll-Demons in Vaults of the Mind and Heart – Art, Tragedy and Sacramentality: Some Observations from Ibsen, Forsyth and Dostoevsky’. Princeton Theological Review 13, no. 1 (2007): 61–85.

  • ‘Bitter Tonic for our Time – Why the Church Needs the World: Peter Taylor Forsyth on Henrik Ibsen’. European Journal of Theology 15, no. 2 (2006): 105–18.


 

Popular Writings, Media Articles, and Poetry

 

Select Reviews

  • ‘Toward a Pentecostal Theology of the Lord’s Supper: Foretasting the Kingdom, by Chris E. W. Green’. Colloquium 48, no. 2 (2016): 225–29.

  • ‘The Theodicy of Peter Taylor Forsyth: A “Crucial” Justification of the Ways of God to Man, by Theng Huat Leow’, Colloquium 48, no. 1 (2016): 97–99.

  • ‘Hinterland Theology: A Stimulus to Theological Construction, by Alan P. F. Sell’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 16, no. 1 (2014): 109–13.

  • ‘Dementia: Living in the Memories of God, by John Swinton’. International Journal of Public Theology 8, no. 4 (2014): 497–98.

  • ‘Entering the New Theological Space: Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community, edited by John Reader and Christopher R. Baker’. International Journal of Public Theology 7, no. 2 (2013): 213–14.

  • ‘Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations, by Anthony B. Robinson’. International Journal of Public Theology 7, no. 1 (2013): 121–23.

  • ‘Barth’s Interpretation of the Virgin Birth: A Sign of Mystery, by Dustin Resch’, The Journal of Theological Studies 64, no. 2 (2013): 818–23.

  • ‘Barth, by Eberhard Busch’, European Journal of Theology 21, no. 1 (2012): 78–79.

  • ‘The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom, by Tripp York’, Religious Studies Review 37, no. 1 (2011): 40.

  • ‘Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth, by David Gibson’. The Journal of Theological Studies 62, no. 1 (2011): 415–19.

  • ‘Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance, by Myk Habets’, Colloquium 43, no. 1 (2011): 109–13.

  • ‘Jürgen Moltmann’s Ethics of Hope, by Timothy Harvie’. Studies in Christian Ethics 24, no. 3 (2011): 391–94.

  • ‘Incarnation Anyway: Arguments from Supralapsarian Christology, by Edwin Christian Van Driel’. The Journal of Theological Studies 61, no. 2 (2010): 887–90.

  • ‘SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine, by Mike Higton’. International Journal of Systematic Theology 12, no. 1 (2010): 100–03.

  • ‘Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher, by Jacqueline Mariña’. The Journal of Theological Studies 61, no. 1 (2010): 434–39.

  • ‘Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition, by John E. Wilson’. Religious Studies Review 36, no. 2 (2010): 136.

  • ‘Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance, by Myk Habets’, in Religious Studies Review 36, no. 4 (2010): 277.

  • ‘Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature, by Bill Ashcroft, Frances Delin-Glass, and Lyn McCredden’. Colloquium 42, no. 2 (2010): 271–74.

  • ‘Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison, by Matthias Gockel’. The Journal of Theological Studies 59, no. 1 (2008): 415–19.

  • ‘Jesus: A Question of Identity, by J. Leslie Houlden’. European Journal of Theology 17, no. 2 (2008): 189–90.

  • ‘Jesus: A Question of Identity, by J. Leslie Houlden’. Religious Studies Review 34, no. 1 (2008): 38.

  • ‘Ecumenical and Eclectic: The Unity of the Church in the Contemporary World: Essays in Honour of Alan P. F. Sell, edited by Anna M. Robbins’. Friends of the Congregational Library 3, no. 1–2 (2008): 6–7.

  • ‘Nonconformist Theology in the Twentieth Century, by Alan P. F. Sell’. European Journal of Theology 17, no. 1 (2008): 91–93.

  • ‘On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times, by Joe R. Jones’. Religious Studies Review 34, no. 1 (2008): 38–39.

  • ‘The Barth Lectures, by Colin E. Gunton’. Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 26, no. 1 (2008): 116–18.

  • ‘An Introduction to Torrance Theology: Discovering the Incarnate Saviour, edited by Gerrit Scott Dawson’, Princeton Theological Review 14/2 (Fall 2008): 122–26.

  • ‘Invitation to Dogmatic Theology: A Canonical Approach, by Paul C. McGlasson’. Religious Studies Review 33, no. 1 (2007): 47.

  • ‘Justification in Perspective, edited by Bruce McCormack’. Religious Studies Review 33, no. 2 (2007): 130.

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