Christiaan Mostert

Portrait: 

Teaching in the United Faculty of Theology

•     Groundwork in Theology
•     Christology
•     The Triune God
•     Church: Community for the Kingdom
•     Ministry and Sacraments
•     19th and 20th Century Protestant Theology
•     The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann

Other Responsibilities

•     Member, Council of the Melbourne College of Divinity
•     Chair, Centenary Committee of the Melbourne College of Divinity
•     Deputy Principal, Uniting Church Theological College
•     Member, Research Committee, Uniting Church Theological College
•     Co-chair, Anglican—Uniting Joint Working Group (national)
•     Member, Faith&Unity Commission, National Council of Churches Australia
•     Member, Council of Ormond College

Recent and Forthcoming Speaking Engagements

• August 2008: 5 presentations to School of Theology, Presbytery of North-East Victoria, at Dookie on ‘Ministry and Ordination
• June 2009: Sermon for Trinity Sunday, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
• February – March 2010: 5 Lenten Studies on ‘Imaging the Atonement’ for the Uniting and Anglican Churches of North Melbourne

    May – November 2010: 4 presentations on the faith of the church to the Presbytery of Port Phillip West

Recent and Forthcoming Academic Presentations

• April 2009: lecture on ‘The Presence of the Future in the Gospel and the Church’, Evangelisch-Methodistische Theologische Hochschule, Reutlingen
• April 2009: Paper on ‘The Church as Vestibule of the Kingdom: Ecclesiology and Eschatology’, Senior Systematic Theology Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
• August 2009: Paper on ‘Salvation’s Setting: Election, Justification and the Church’, at UFT Research Seminar
• November 2009: Paper on ‘The Church as Vestibule of the Kingdom’ at Occasional Theological Seminar, Auburn UCA, Hawthorn
• July 2010: Paper on the church, ‘Built upon the one Lord Jesus Christ’ at the UCA Conference, Engaging the Basis, Melbourne

Research Projects and Interests

• The church as eschatological community, a community ‘anticipating’ the reign of God: a book project
• The doctrine of the ministry of Word and Sacrament; recovering the essence of this ministry in the church: papers
• The reconciliation of ministries in a reconciled church: papers
• Creation and New Creation – a history of the doctrine: a book

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

• God and the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s eschatological doctrine of God, Edinburgh: T&T Clark / London: Continuum, 2002.
• Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers, edited with Peter Matheson. Melbourne: David Lovell Publishing, 2004.  Introduction (ix-xii).
• ‘Living in Hope’, in C. Mostert (ed), Hope: Challenging the Culture of Despair (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004), 49-66.
• ‘Theodicy and Eschatology’, in B. Barber&D. Neville (eds), Theodicy and Eschatology (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005), 97-120.
• ‘The Horizon of the Future in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg’, in W. Cristaudo&W. Baker (eds), Messianism , Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006), 213-226.
• ‘Paul Tillich as Existentialist and More’, in I. Weeks&D. Reid (eds), A Thoughtful Life: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006), 215-237.
• ‘Justification and Eschatology’, in Michael Weinrich&John P. Burgess (eds), What is Justification About? Reformed Contributions to an Ecumenical Theme (Grand Rapids, Michigan&Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2009), 185-206.
• ‘The Church as an Echo of the Triune God’, in Eduardus Van Der Borght (ed), The Unity of the Church, Studies in Reformed Theology, Vol 18 (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010), 293-305.
• ‘The Kingdom Anticipated: The Church and Eschatology’, in International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2010.
• ‘The Church and Reconciliation’, Centenary Issue of Pacifica, June 2010.