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Q & A Panel – New Testament Perspectives on Mission

Thursday, July 27, 2017
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom 5- 6

Speaker

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Rev'd Dr Fergus King
University of Newcastle

Q & A Panel - New Testament Perspectives on Mission

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentation 1

Biography

Fergus King is from Aberdeen in Scotland. Educated at St Andrews (MA Hons) and Edinburgh (BD Hons), he was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church. After a curacy in Oban, he worked with USPG at St Mark’s College, Dar es Salaam (1992-98) and then in London, (1998-2005). He studied for his DTh (2006) through the University of South Africa. He was appointed Rector of Kotara South in 2005, and has served as Conjoint Lecturer/Senior Lecturer ( University of Newcastle), Co-ordinating Chaplain at the University and Area Dean of Newcastle. He has been an Honorary Canon and the Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Tanga (Tanzania)since 2001. He is married to Irene and they have 5 boys. He belongs to the International Association for Mission Studies, The Fellowship for Biblical Studies and the Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum.
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The Rev'd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee
Principal
Trinity College

Q & A Panel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

The Revd Canon Professor Dorothy Lee is Head of Trinity College Theological School and Frank Woods Professor of New Testament. She was born in Scotland and spent her childhood between the UK and Australia. Her first degree was in Classics, before studies in Divinity and Religion at the University of Sydney. She was ordained in the Anglican church in 2008, after serving as a Uniting Church Minister for many years. Dorothy’s main interests as a teacher and writer are in the narrative and theology of the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, and she has taught and published widely in these areas. She has a passion for biblical theology and spirituality. Her latest publication is a study of the Gospels in the light of today’s existential questions: The Gospels Speak. Addressing Life’s Questions (Paulist Press, 2017). She was recently elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Dorothy has two adult daughters, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Her main hobbies are reading novels and poetry, and walking.
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Rev'd Dr Amy Peeler
St Mark's Episcopal Church, Geneva Illinois

Q & A Panel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

The Revd Dr Amy Peeler is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College (IL) and Associate Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, IL. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Author of You Are My Son: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews (T&T Clark, 2014), she continues to focus her research and teaching on Hebrews and the Gospel of Mark.
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Rev'd Dr Brian Rosner
Principal
Ridley College

Q & A Panel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

The Revd Dr Brian Rosner is the Principal of Ridley College. Previously he lectured at the University of Aberdeen and Moore Theological College. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Paul as Missionary (ed), the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (ed), the Pillar commentary on 1 Corinthians, Greed as Idolatry, Paul and the Law, and Known by God: A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity (forthcoming). He is a Fellow of the Centre for Public Christianity and is passionate about promoting the gospel in the contemporary world. Brian is married to Natalie, who is the Children and Families Minister at St Silas, North Balwyn.
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