QUALIFICATIONS

New Zealand Certificate in Adult and Tertiary Education (Open Polytechnic).

PhD (University of Otago).

Bachelor of Divinity (University of Otago).

Bachelor of Arts (University of Otago).

MINISTRY ORDERS

Ordained as a Deacon in 1988, and a Priest in 1989, in the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin.

PUBLICATIONS

Original Articles:

‘Word, Words and World’, Colloquium, May 1991, 71-84;

 ‘Gratuitous Truth: Metaphor and Revelation’, Colloquium, May, 1992, 29-43;

‘Janet Martin Soskice, Metaphor and a Theology of Grace’,
Scottish Journal of Theology, 46, April 1993, 512-38;

‘Christ at the Centre: The Logic of Biblical Christianity’, Affirm, December 1994.

‘Reconciliation and Responsibility’, Interface I/1, April 1998.

‘Eschatological Apologetics’, Anvil, 2004.

‘Becoming Church in the 21st Century’, Church of Ireland Gazette, 2007.

Various review articles for J. Theol. Studies, 2000 -

‘Developing Collaborative Ministry: A Consultation Paper’, Parts I & II, Search, 30/2 & 30/3, 2007.

Essays as Contributions to Books:

‘Response to Janet Martin Soskice's, “The Truth Looks Different From Here”’, in Christ and Context, Hilary D. Regan, Alan J. Torrance (eds.), T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1993, 63‑72.

‘Theological Geography’, Theological Fragments: Essays in Honour of Alan Torrance. M. Rae, D. B. Hamill (eds), Lada, Dunedin, 1994, 8-19.

‘Orthodoxy and the Person of Christ’, in P. Trebilco (ed.) Considering Orthodoxy. Colcom Press, Orewa, NZ, 1995, 46-58.

'"Dressing the Wounds of the People": Theology, Culture and Health Care'; “‘Is There No Balm in Gilead?": Idolatry and the Dollar Culture'; “Health Care and the Theology of Death: Response to Colin Gunton’s ‘Sin, Death and the Resurrection of the Body: Towards an Eschatology of Personhood’”, all in H. Regan et al. (eds.), Beyond Mere Health: Theology and Health Care in a Secular Society, A.T. F., Melbourne, 1996, 196-218, 176-195, 50-63.

'Creation and Postmodernity', in V. Pfitzner and H. Regan (eds.), in The Task of       Theology Today: Doctrines and Dogmas, T. & T. Clark, 1999.

'Nature, Sex and the Cross: Homosexuality and Christian Discipleship', in M. Rae & G. Redding (eds.), More than a Single Issue, A.T.F., Hindmarsh, 2000; 122-140.

 ‘Between Women and Men’, in C. Gunton (ed.), The Theology of Reconciliation, T & T Clark, 2003; 125ff.

‘Scripture and Community’, in Richard Clarke (ed.), The Authority of Scripture. Church of Ireland, 2006.

'Disability and the Theology of 4-D Personhood', in Andrew Picard and Myk Habets (eds), Theology and the Experience of Disability. Oxford: Routledge, 2016; 9 – 20.

'Cancer and Creation', in Tim Meadowcroft and Carolyn Blyth (eds), Spirituality and Cancer. Accent, 2015.

‘Gunton and Theological Language’, in Andrew Picard and Murray Rae (eds), T & T Clark Companion to Colin Gunton (London: T & T Clark, forthcoming)

Books:

Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Word, Words and World: How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.

AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

1993- Member, Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry.

1993-94 Fulbright Scholar.

1991 Harriette Jenkins Award, NZ Federation of University Women.

1990-91 Post Ordination Scholar, St John’s College, Auckland.