Faculty & Staff

Research: Public Theology, Popular Theology.
Teaching: Christology, Sacramental Theology, Public Theology, Anglican Studies.

Publications

• The Presence of God in the World: A Contribution to Postmodern Christology Based on the Theologies of Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner (Peter Lang, 2007)
• I Met God in Bermuda: Faith in the Twenty First Century (O-Books, 2009)
• Love Upside Down: Life, Love and the Subversive Jesus (O-Books, 2011)

Research Interests

Biblical Interpretation
Christian Origins
Historical Jesus
History of Ancient Israel and Judah
Second Temple Judaism

 

Teaching Areas

Advanced Biblical Exegesis
Biblical Hebrew
Contemporary Approaches to Biblical Studies
Introduction to New Testament Studies
Introduction to Old Testament Studies
Judaism and Early Christianity
New Testament Greek
Old Testament History and Narrative
Pentateuch
Prophetic Literature

 

Recent Publications

The once and future Bible: An introduction to the Bible for religious progressives. (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011).

“The sign of the prophet Jonah: Tracing the tradition history of a biblical character in ancient Judaism and early Christianity.” In Why me? Send someone else, edited by M. M. Caspi and J. T. Greene. North Richland Hills, TX: Bibal, 2011. (forthcoming)

“Trends in theological education at St Francis Theological College, Brisbane (1975–2010): A participant-observer report.” In From Augustine to Anglicanism: The Anglican Church in Australia and beyond, edited by Marcus Harmes, Lindsay Henderson and Gillian Colclough, 133-145. (Toowoomba, Qld: Augustine to Anglicanism Conference/Anglicans in Australia and Beyond, 2010).

“Memories of Jesus in early Islam. An inquiry into the transmission of the Jesus tradition in early Islam.” In Problems translating texts about Jesus, edited by M. M. Caspi and J. T. Greene, 113–72. North Richland Hills, TX: Bibal, 2010.

Origins and early developments of the Antichrist myth. (de Gruyter, 1991)

Teaching: Introduction to Christian Ministry; Mission, Evangelism & Apologetics; Ministry Formation; Supervised Field Education.