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Embracing Grace: The Theologian's Task
Essays in Honour of Graeme Garrett
RRP: ($35.00)
Published: February 2009
The Right Reverend Dr Stephen Pickard, in this books,says of Graeme Garrett, "Graeme Garrett is one steeped in the wisdom of the vows. Those countless disciples who have been privileged to have sat with him and under him will have been greatly blessed by a passionate theologian exercising a rich and abiding priestly ministry pointing others, John the Baptist like, to the One whose promises are sure."
Essay Contributors
(CSU = Charles Sturt University)
- Sarah Bachelard is Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at St Mark’s National Theological Centre, CSU School of Theology and Coordinator of the Diploma of Anglican Orders at St Mark’s.
- Geoffrey Brennan is Professor of Economics at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He also holds a joint position as Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
- Terry Falla is a Research Scholar and the Director of the Syriac Language Research Centre, Whitley College, University of Melbourne. He is also Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Centre for Classics and Archaeology, School of Historical Studies, and the Centre for Jewish History and Culture.
- Jane Foulcher is a doctoral candidate at St Mark’s National Theological Centre through the CSU Public and Contextual Theology Strategic Research Centre, and a former graduate of St Mark’s.
This book is a tribute to a man whose theological journey began as a small, barely-running creek and has widened out into a broad, slow but deep-running great river. The essays cover every aspect of being a theologian; the theologian as priest, preacher, spiritual director, biblical interpreter, prophet, citizen, ethicist, peacemaker, teacher, conversationalist, writer and poet.
Contributors (contd)
(CSU = Charles Sturt University)
- Tom Frame is Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre and a former graduate of St Mark’s.
- Kerrie Hide is a Retreat Leader at the St Mary Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park, and a former graduate of St Mark’s.
- John Langmore is Professorial Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.
- Thorwald Lorenzen is Professorial Associate at St Mark’s National Theological Centre in the CSU School of Theology.
- David Neville is Associate Professor and Head of School and Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at St Mark’s National Theological Centre, CSU School of Theology.
- John Painter is Professor of Theology at St Mark’s National Theological Centre, CSU School of Theology.
- Stephen Pickard is Assistant Bishop in the Archdiocese of Adelaide.
- Heather Thomson is Lecturer in Theology at St Mark’s National Theological Centre.