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.