Peter G. Bolt
Academic background and interests
Present Position
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Head of Department of New Testament and Greek |
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Lecturer, Moore College |
Qualifications
1984 |
ThL Honours 1 (ACT) |
1985 |
BD Honours 2A (London) |
1985 |
DipA Honours 2A (MTC ) |
1986 |
Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia , Sydney Diocese) |
1986 |
Priested (Anglican Church of Australia , Sydney Diocese) |
1992 |
MTh (ACT) |
1995 |
MA Hons (Macquarie University) |
1997 |
PhD (London) |
Previous Experience
1976–79 |
Medical Student, University of New South Wales |
1980–81 |
Student Worker, St. Matthias Centennial Park |
1982–85 |
Student, Moore College |
1986–87 |
Curate, St. Clement’s Mosman |
1988–89 |
Curate, St. John’s Mt Druitt |
1990–93 |
Lecturer, Moore Theological College |
1993–96 |
On leave to pursue Ph.D. Studies Visiting Lecturer, Oak Hill Theological College, London |
1997– |
Lecturer, Moore Theological College |
1997–2002 |
Director External Studies Department |
2001– |
Head of New Testament Department & Greek, Moore College |
2003 |
Extraordinary Study Leave for preparation of Annual Lectures (1 Term) |
2005 |
Study Leave (6 months) |
Professional Activities
1986– |
Director, Australian Church Record |
1990–1993 |
Secretary, Committee for External Studies, Moore College |
1990–1993 |
Committee Member, Society for the Study of Early Christianity |
1990– |
Member, Society for the Study of Early Christianity |
1998– |
Board member, Department of Evangelism, Anglican Diocese of Sydney |
1998– |
Executive Editor, Australian Church Record |
1999– |
Member, Course Advisory Committee, Cornerstone Community, Dubbo, NSW |
2001– |
Associate Evangelist, Department of Evangelism, Diocese of Sydney |
2002– |
Member, Board of Reference, Maitland Evangelical Church |
2003– |
Member, Board of Reference, ENTER ministry |
2003–2004 |
Faculty Representative, Moore College Council |
2003– |
Member, Board of Reference, Christchurch St George |
2004– |
Member Sydney Diocese Doctrine Commission |
2004– |
Sydney Delegate, Anglican Church of Australia , General Synod |
2005 |
Member, Board of Reference, Mosman Pk Community Bible Church , WA |
Recent Postgraduate Teaching Experience
External Examiner for University of Queensland PhD: ‘“Many will come from the east and the west”: Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission.’
External Examiner for MA (Luke) A.C.T.
External Examiner for masters thesis (Bible College of Queensland): ‘An Evaluation of the role of Narrative Criticism within Studies in the Gospel of Matthew’, a 10,000 word research paper submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements towards ACT MTh. (Paper was failed 2000; remarked 2001)
Supervised the following MTC/UWS PhD thesis: ‘A Comparison of Teaching/Learning in 1 Corinthians ands the Pastorals’
Supervised the following research masters theses: ‘Jesus’ Self-Understanding and Self-Presentation in the Gospel of Mark’
‘The interpretative method known as “the history of effects”: its philosophical milieu, method, and influence’
'An Audience-Response approach to understanding the parables in Matthew'
Supervised the following MA projects: ‘The House Church Movement and Evangelical Ecclesiology’
‘The Lord’s Supper’
‘Acts 1:8’
'Eschatology of Hebrews 3 & 4'
Taught the following coursework masters units: NT Theology of Mortality
NT Christology (with P. T. O’Brien)
Biblical Foundations of Evangelical Ministry
Mark as Persuasive Narrative
Luke–Acts
Taught ACT coursework doctoral unit: Biblical Foundations of Evangelical Ministry
Publications
Books
Mission Minded: A Tool for Building Your Ministry around Christ’s Mission. Second Edition. Kingsford, NSW: Matthias 2000.
News of the Hour. Kingsford, NSW: St Matthias Press, 1997 (co-author with Tony Payne).
Teaching a Biblical Topic: The Resurrection of the Body. AFES Leadership Training. Strand 4. Kingsford, NSW: AFES, 1998.
A Gospel for the Nations: Perspectives on Paul’s Mission. Essays Presented to Peter Thomas O'Brien on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Co-edited by M. D. Thompson. Leicester: IVP, 2000.
Mark. The Beginning of the Gospel. Faithwalk Bible Studies; Wheaton, Il.: Crossways, 2000. [(American edition of News of the Hour.) (Co-author with Tony Payne).]
‘Do you not care that we are perishing?’ Jesus’ Defeat of Death and Mark’s Early Readers. SNTSMS 125. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Jesus' Defeat of Death. Persuading Mark's Readers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The Cross from a Distance. Atonement in Mark's Gospel. NSBT 18. Leicester: IVP, 2004.
Proclaiming the Risen Lord. Kingsford, NSW: Matthias Media, 2004.
The Faith Once For All Delivered: An Australian Evangelical Response to The Windsor Report. Co-edited by M. D. Thompson and R. Tong. Camperdown, NSW: Australian Church Record, 2005.
Living With The Underworld. Kingsford, NSW: Matthias Media, 2006 (forthcoming)
Editor (with M.D. Thompson) of The Works of Donald Robinson. 2006 (forthcoming).
Articles
‘The Spirit in the Synoptic Gospels: The Equipment of the Servant’. In Explorations 5: Spirit of the Living God, Part 1. Edited by B. G. Webb. Homebush West, NSW: Lancer, 1991.
‘What Fruit does the Vine Bear? Some Pastoral Implications of St John 15:1–8’. Reformed Theological Review 51 (1992): 11–19.
‘What is the Gospel for Today’s Church?’. in Explorations 7: Exploring the Missionary Church. Edited by B. G. Webb. Homebush West, NSW: Lancer, 1993.
‘What Were the Sadducees Reading? An Enquiry into the Literary Background to Mark 12:18–23’. Tyndale Bulletin 45 (1994): 369–94.
‘Mark 13: An Apocalyptic Precursor to the Passion Narrative’. Reformed Theological Review 54 (1995): 10–32.
‘Mark 16:1–8: The Empty Tomb of a Hero?’. Tyndale Bulletin 47 (1996): 27–37.
‘Jesus, Daimons and the Dead’. in The Spiritual Word. Edited by A. N. Lane. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1996.
‘Mission and Witness’. in Witness to the Nations: The Theology of Acts. Edited by D. G. Peterson and I. H. Marshall. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998.
‘“With a View to the Forgiveness of Sins”: Jesus and Forgiveness in Mark’s Gospel’. Reformed Theological Review 57 (1998): 53–69.
‘Burial Practices’. in The Complete Bible Handbook: An Illustrated Companion. Edited by J. Bowker. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1998.
‘Jesus’ Defeat of Death and Mark’s Early Readers [Thesis Abstract]’. Tyndale Bulletin 49.1 (1998), 175–178.
‘Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Greco–Roman World’. Pages 51–79 in Life in the Face of Death: The Resurrection Message of the New Testament. Edited by R. N. Longenecker. McMaster New Testament Studies 3; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
‘Following Jesus and Fishing for People. Evangelistic Mission in the Third Millennium’. Pages 1–35 in Explorations 12: Ripe For Harvest. Christian Mission in the New Testament and in our World. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Carlisle/Adelaide: Paternoster/Open Book, 2000.
‘The Philosopher in the Hands of an Angry God’. Pages 327–343 in The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul’s Mission. Essays Presented to Peter Thomas O’Brien on his Sixty–Fifth Birthday. Edited by P.G. Bolt and M.D. Thompson. Leicester: IVP, 2000.
‘Feeling the Cross: Mark’s Message of Atonement’. Reformed Theological Review 60.1 (2001): 1–17.
‘“If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed”: Jesus and the Liberation of Men and Women’. Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. 5.2 (2001): 13–17.
Review of E.S. Malbon, In the Company of Jesus. Characters in Mark's Gospel. Journal of Theological Studies 53.1 (2002): 199–202.
'Mark'. Pages 391–413 in The Face of New Testament Studies. Edited by S. McKnight and G.R. Osborne. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.
'The Ordination of Women and Political Repentance'. Interface 8.2 (2005): 74-85.
‘Communion as Fellowship’, in The Faith Once For All Delivered. An Australian Evangelical Response to the Windsor Report. Edited by P.G. Bolt, M.D. Thompson, and R. Tong. Camperdown, NSW: Australian Church Record, 2005.
‘Three Heads in the Divine Order: The Early Church Fathers and 1 Corinthians 11:3’, Reformed Theological Review 64.3 (2005), 147-161
'Miracles in Scripture' and 'New Testament Apologetics', in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics. Edited by C. Campbell-Jack and G. McGrath. Leicester: IVP, 2006. (forthcoming).
'Interpreting Australian Society for Mission', in Anglican Ecclesiology. Edited by B.L. Kaye., (2006, forthcoming)
'Where is the Word of God in the Sermon?', in In Search of the Word of God. Edited by A.G. Shead and B.S. Rosner. (forthcoming.)
Research
‘The Narrative Integrity of Mark 13:24–27’. M.Th. thesis. Australian College of Theology, 1993.
‘Plutarch’s ‘Delay of the Divine Vengeance’ and Pauline Eschatology’. M.A. (Hons) thesis. Macquarie University, 1994.
‘“Do you not care that we are perishing?” Jesus’ Defeat of Death and Mark’s Early Readers’. Ph.D. thesis. University of London, 1997.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (n.d.).
Current Research
Research into the life of Thomas Moore for various lectures as part of Moore’s sesquicentenary in 2006, and then several journal articles and a major book on the College’s founder.
Continue Research for See How We Died. A Biblical Theology of Mortality, in the New Studies in Biblical Theology Series (IVP).
Matthew’s Gospel (Aquila Books)
The Under world (Matthias Media)