Curriculum Vitae (degrees, diplomas and titles of theses)
Ulpan Adults with eTeacherBIBLICAL HEBREW
2007 PhD (University of Western Sydney). Intentional Friendship: A Philosophy of Pastoral Care.
2003 Diploma in Solution Oriented Psychotherapy (ASOCHA)
2001 Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy (ANZAP). Empathy, Psychosis and the Intersubjective Field.
1999 Level II Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education (ANZACPE)
1989 Level I Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education (NSWCCPE)
1987 DipLS [Diploma in Liturgical Studies] (Melbourne College of Divinity]. Eucharistic Sacrifice and Human Wholeness: a plea for the reconsideration of self offertory in modern eucharistic worship.
1981 MA (Theology) (University of Birmingham). Toward A General and Special Theory of Christ.
1979 DPS [Diploma in Pastoral Studies] (University of Birmingham). With Care: Some reflections on the need of care and the care of need, arising out of a survey conducted among social work students.
1976 BD (Melbourne College of Divinity)
1967 BArch (University of Sydney)
I was deaconed in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1976 and priested a year later. I have served as a curate and parish priest, a theological lecturer and deputy Director of St Marks Theological College, an Archdeacon, and a trainer of chaplains and pastoral care practitioners. I have also been a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church of Australia, and given homilies in the Roman Catholic Church.
Publications
No book or major publication, but many articles and conference papers. The following is a sample list, some of which will be found on this site.
Conceiving Spirituality - A Paper given at the Annual Supervisors' Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Clinical Pastoral Education. 2001 [paper also given earlier that year to the Melbourne Jung Society]
The Abyss Still Beckons: Reflections on Freud's Place in our Spiritual Quest - A Paper given to the Analytic Psychology pedagogic event at the UWS Hawkesbury Campus July 2002.
Modern Marriage: A Union of Equals? The 1991 Mary Body Memorial Lecture, later published in The St Marks Review.
Christ's Way to True Selfhood - A Paper read at the Psychiatry and Religion Conference 1991.
Spirit and Self: A Speculative Interpretation of the interaction of Spirit and Self in the life of Jesus of Nazareth - A Paper prepared in the Department of Philosophy, ANU and read at a Conference on religion at St Paul's College 1996
Where Now with the Absolute?: Some preliminary remarks. - A Paper read in the Department of Philosophy, ANU, 1998.
John Macmurray - a long series of papers on the philosopher John Macmurray published in the Newsletter of the John Macmurray Fellowship.
Plus many papers on different aspects of pastoral care and human subjectivity and agency.
But this site is dedicated to my vision of Christ for a 21st Century world. It includes papers and blogs and news of my forthcoming book. The most extended piece of writing on this site is a series of addresses given to a Clergy Retreat within the Uniting Church of Australia in 2018.
Ulpan Adults with eTeacherBIBLICAL HEBREW
2007 PhD (University of Western Sydney). Intentional Friendship: A Philosophy of Pastoral Care.
2003 Diploma in Solution Oriented Psychotherapy (ASOCHA)
2001 Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy (ANZAP). Empathy, Psychosis and the Intersubjective Field.
1999 Level II Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education (ANZACPE)
1989 Level I Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education (NSWCCPE)
1987 DipLS [Diploma in Liturgical Studies] (Melbourne College of Divinity]. Eucharistic Sacrifice and Human Wholeness: a plea for the reconsideration of self offertory in modern eucharistic worship.
1981 MA (Theology) (University of Birmingham). Toward A General and Special Theory of Christ.
1979 DPS [Diploma in Pastoral Studies] (University of Birmingham). With Care: Some reflections on the need of care and the care of need, arising out of a survey conducted among social work students.
1976 BD (Melbourne College of Divinity)
1967 BArch (University of Sydney)
I was deaconed in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1976 and priested a year later. I have served as a curate and parish priest, a theological lecturer and deputy Director of St Marks Theological College, an Archdeacon, and a trainer of chaplains and pastoral care practitioners. I have also been a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church of Australia, and given homilies in the Roman Catholic Church.
Publications
No book or major publication, but many articles and conference papers. The following is a sample list, some of which will be found on this site.
Conceiving Spirituality - A Paper given at the Annual Supervisors' Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Clinical Pastoral Education. 2001 [paper also given earlier that year to the Melbourne Jung Society]
The Abyss Still Beckons: Reflections on Freud's Place in our Spiritual Quest - A Paper given to the Analytic Psychology pedagogic event at the UWS Hawkesbury Campus July 2002.
Modern Marriage: A Union of Equals? The 1991 Mary Body Memorial Lecture, later published in The St Marks Review.
Christ's Way to True Selfhood - A Paper read at the Psychiatry and Religion Conference 1991.
Spirit and Self: A Speculative Interpretation of the interaction of Spirit and Self in the life of Jesus of Nazareth - A Paper prepared in the Department of Philosophy, ANU and read at a Conference on religion at St Paul's College 1996
Where Now with the Absolute?: Some preliminary remarks. - A Paper read in the Department of Philosophy, ANU, 1998.
John Macmurray - a long series of papers on the philosopher John Macmurray published in the Newsletter of the John Macmurray Fellowship.
Plus many papers on different aspects of pastoral care and human subjectivity and agency.
But this site is dedicated to my vision of Christ for a 21st Century world. It includes papers and blogs and news of my forthcoming book. The most extended piece of writing on this site is a series of addresses given to a Clergy Retreat within the Uniting Church of Australia in 2018.