Robert C. Doyle
Academic background and interests
Present Position
1982– |
Lecturer, Moore Theological College, Sydney |
1992– |
Head of the History Department, Moore Theological College |
1997– |
Director of Post-Graduate Studies, Moore Theological College |
Qualifications
1969 |
B.Sc. (Sydney) |
1974 |
Th.L. (Hons 2) (ACT) |
1975 |
B.D. (Hons 2A) ( London ) |
1975 |
Dip.A.Theol. (Hons 2A) ( Moore Theological College) |
1982– |
Licensed to Officiate in the Anglican Church of Australia , Diocese of Sydney |
1982 |
Ph.D. ( Aberdeen ) |
Previous Experience
1970–1971 |
Scientific Officer, Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals , Division of Clinical Chemistry |
1976–1978 |
Curate at St Stephen’s Willoughby |
1979–1981 |
Priest–in–Charge St Clement’s Mastrick, Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Episcopal Church of Scotland |
1982–1997 |
Sunday Assistant, various congregations in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, including St Matthias Centennial Park |
1998– |
Assistant, St Matthias at UNSW |
Professional Activities
1982– |
Examiner, Australian College of Theology |
1982–1984 |
Member of Ecumenical Affairs Committee, Anglican Diocese of Sydney |
1982–1984 |
Member of the Australian Study Guide Committee of the ARCIC Final Report, set up by the Anglican Primate of Australia and the Chairman of the Episcopal Committee for Ecumenism of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia |
1983–1984 |
Member of the Council of the Board of Education Anglican Diocese of Sydney |
1983–1990 |
Warden of Singles Residence, Moore Theological College, Sydney |
1990–1996 |
Director of External Studies, Moore Theological College |
1995– |
Member Australian Anglican/Roman Catholic Conversation (AUSTARC) |
1996 |
Adviser to the Doctrine Commission of the Diocese of Sydney , Anglican Church of Australia |
1996–1997 |
Member of the Doctrine Commission of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia |
1996–1998 |
Member of Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney |
1997– |
Member of General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia |
1998– |
Member of Doctrine Commission, Diocese of Sydney |
1998 |
Australian Anglican Delegate to World Council of Churches Assembly, Harare |
1998– |
Member of Board of Graduate Studies, Australian College of Theology |
1998–1999 |
Member of Formation Committee for proposed degree, Master of Arts in Christian Studies, Australian College of Theology |
1998–1999 |
Member of Ecumenical Strategies Group, General Synod |
1998–2000 |
Member of Women Bishops Working Party, General Synod |
1998–2000 |
Member of Anglican–Jewish Dialogue, Sydney |
1998–2001 |
Member of Doctor of Ministry Committee, Australian College of Theology |
2001– |
Vice-President, Church Missionary Society – Australia |
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Member of Council and Federal Executive of Church Missionary Society – Australia |
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Chairman of the Board of New College, University of New South Wales |
2001 |
Lecturer, Annual Moore College Lectures |
Recent Postgraduate Teaching Experience
External marker for Ph.D thesis: University of New England
External marker for Masters theses: Melbourne College of Divinity (1)
Australian College of Theology (3)
Supervised the following ACT research masters theses: ‘Martin Luther and Medieval Mysticism’
‘The Theological Tone of the Early English Reformation’
‘Karl Barth’s Theology of Original Sin: A Reading and Assessment from within the Reformed Tradition’
‘The Doctrine of Election in the Theology of Karl Barth: Its Intellectual Background’
‘An Assessment of Eschatology in the Thought of Pannenberg’
‘An Analysis and Critique of Thomas Cartwright’s Theology of Church’
Taught ACT and MTC coursework masters units: Theology of Augustine (twice)
Theology of Luther (4 times)
Evangelical Movement (3 times)
Theology of Calvin (twice)
Modern Trinitarian Thought (6 times)
Contemporary Theological Studies and Ministry
The Christian Doctrine of Revelation in a Changing world (twice)
Taught ACT professional doctorate units: Modern Trinitarian Thought (twice)
Contemporary Theological Studies and Ministry
Publications
Books
Travelling Together: Australian Guide for the ARCIC Final Report. Sydney: the Australian Study Guide Committee of the ARCIC Final Report, 1984. (Co–author)
Reformation Church History. Sydney: External Studies, Moore Theological College, 1987.
Signs and Wonders and Evangelical Ministry: A Response to theTeaching of John Wimber. Sydney: Lancer, 1987. (Editor and contributor)
The Saints and Christian Prayer: An Agreed Statement of AustARC November 1997. Melbourne: Franciscan Press, 1997. (Co–author)
Eschatology and the Shape of Christian Belief. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999.
Historical Theology. 2 vols. Sydney: External Studies, Moore Theological College (forthcoming).
Articles
‘John Calvin, His Modern Detractors, and the Place of the Law in Christian Ethics’. Reformed Theological Review 41 (1982): 74–83.
‘The death of Christ and the doctrine of grace in John Wycliffe’. Churchman 99 (1985): 317–35.
‘The Preaching of Repentance in John Calvin: Repentance and Union with Christ’. Pages 287–321 in God Who is Rich in Mercy: Studies Presented in Honour of D. B. Knox. Edited by P. T. O’Brien and D. G. Peterson. Sydney: Anzea, 1986.
‘Sexuality, Personhood, and the Image of God’. Pages 43–56 in Explorations 1: Personhood, Sexuality and Christian Ministry. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1987.
‘Women’s Ministry, Social Flexibility and the 16th Century’. Reformed Theological Review 46 (1987): 1–9.
‘The Search for Theological Models: The Christian in His Society in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries’. Pages 27–72 in Explorations 3: Christians in Society. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1988.
‘Decision Making at the Boundaries of Life and Death: How Religious Beliefs Affect Ethical judgments’. Pages 49–82 in Explorations 4: The Ethics of Life and Death. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1990.
‘The Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son’. Pages 19–48 in Explorations 6: Spirit of the Living God (Part Two). Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1992.
‘God and the Feminist Critique: A Review Article’. Reformed Theological Review 52 (1993): 12–22.
‘Scholastic Orthodoxy, Piety and Sydney Anglicanism’. Lucas: An Evangelical History Review 18 (1994): 21–49.
‘Searching for Grace Through Repentance, the Journey from Tertullian through Calvin to Richard Foster’. Pages 15–39 in Explorations 9: Responding to the Gospel: Evangelical Perspectives on Christian Living. Edited by B. G. Webb. Adelaide: Openbook, 1995.
‘“Lay Administration” and the 16th Century’. Pages 27–40 in Lay Presidency at the Eucharist: A Theological Consultation. A Report of the General Synod Commission on Doctrine. Edited by I. Head. The Standing Committee of General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia, May 1995.
‘Word and Sacrament in Catholic and Evangelical Theology’. Pages 8–19 in Who may Celebrate? Boundaries of Anglican Order. Edited by I. Head. Sydney: Standing Committee of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, 1996.
‘Models of Mission and the Doctrine of the Spirit’. Pages 69–88 in Explorations 12: Ripe for Harvest: Christian Mission in the New Testament and in Our World. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Adelaide: Openbook, 1998.
‘The Change in Christian Imagination: A Comparison of John Napier and J. N. Darby’. Paper delivered at Millennium Meeting, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Sydney 1998.
‘The Uniqueness of Christ, “Chalcedon” and Mission’. Pages 345–63 in The Gospel to the Nations: Essays in Honour of Peter Thomas O’Brien on his sixty–fifth Birthday. Edited by P. G. Bolt and M. D. Thompson. Leicester: IVP, 2000.
‘The Search for Self and Christian Eschatology: Reconciled and Reconciling Humanity’. In Explorations 13: Who am I? Perspectives on Christian Anthropology. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Adelaide: Openbook (forthcoming).
‘Penal Atonement: the orthodox teaching of the Fathers and three conversations with John Calvin: part 1, the orthodox teaching of the Fathers.’ Reformed Theological Review, forthcoming 2006.
‘Penal Atonement: the orthodox teaching of the Fathers and three conversations with John Calvin: part 2, towards an appropriate theological presentation.’ Reformed Theological Review, forthcoming 2006.
‘The problematic Relation of God and History: part 1, the Bible and the resurrection’. Explorations, forthcoming 2006.
‘The problematic Relation of God and History: part 2, discerning the connections’. Explorations, forthcoming 2006.
Research
‘The Context of Moral Decision Making in the Writings of John Calvin: The Christological Ethics of Eschatological Order’. Ph.D. thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1981.
Current Research
Exegetical tradition of Martin Luther and John Calvin on the topics of Union with Christ and Atonement.
The Evangelical Doctrine of the Church, monograph.
Gospel and Trinity: is the doctrine of the Trinity an exposition of the gospel?