Current Research

Peter Benzie, “As a Little Child: Children in the Theology of John Wesley,” MTh thesis, Laidlaw-Carey Graduate School, Auckland, 2009.

Ian Breward (with Troy Duncan), chapter on ‘Methodist Union’ in the forthcoming History of Methodism in Australia.

Kent Brower and David B. McEwan, “Future Challenges in Wesleyan Theological Education,” Intelligence and Creation 14 (2011): 87-105.

Joseph Coleson, Genesis 1-11 in the New Beacon Bible Commentary (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, forthcoming in 2012).

Joseph Coleson, “To Walk with God, Again,” and “Living Together as Daughters and Sons in God’s Already-But-Not-Yet World,” in Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011).

Adam Couchman, completed the MA (Aspects of Christian Holiness) thesis, “Evil, the Fall and the Human Condition according to Gregory of Nyssa,” Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, 2011.

Adam Couchman, “Sin and its Relationship to ‘True Godliness’ in John Calvin’s Institutes,” Aldersgate Papers 8 (September 2010): 69-82.

Peter Dobson: DMin candidate, Australian College of Theology. Title: “An analysis of the Ministerial Development process in the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia.”

Geordan Hammond (with Peter S. Forsaith), eds. Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting (Pickwick / Wipf and Stock, 2011).

Alan Harley, “Putting It All in Perspective: A Survey of a Half Century of Doing Theology 1961 – 2011,” Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011).

Jennifer Hein: PhD candidate, Flinders University.  Title: “Whosoever Will May Come: The Salvation Army in Nineteenth Century South Australia – A Case Study of Free Grace in Practice.

Jennifer Hein, “More Inspirational than Penetrating: The Salvation Army’s Use of History,” Aldersgate Papers 8 (September 2010): 27-46.

Jennifer Hein, “A Crisis of Leadership: John Alexander Dowie and the Salvation Army in South Australia”, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia No 30 (2011).

David B. McEwan, Wesley as a Pastoral Theologian: Theological Methodology in John Wesley’s Doctrine of Christian Perfection. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2011.

David B. McEwan, “The Living and Written Word of God: John Wesley’s Reading, Understanding and Application of Scripture,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 46:1 (Spring 2011): 106-19.

David B. McEwan, “Denominational Identity in a World of Theological Indifferentism: Some Insights from John Wesley and ‘the People Called Methodists,’” Aldersgate Papers 8 (September 2010): 9-26

Brett Mitchell: MA (Aspects of Christian Holiness) candidate, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. Title: “Theological Perspectives of Holiness.”

Thomas A. Noble, “To Serve the Present Age: Authentic Wesleyan Theology Today (2011 Presidential Address),” Wesleyan Theological Journal 46:1 (Spring 2011): 73-89.

Glen O’Brien, co-convenor of the National History of Methodism Project along with Professor Hilary Carey and Dr. Troy Duncan of Newcastle University.

Glen O’Brien, Three chapters in the forthcoming History of Methodism in Australia – “Methodism in the Australian Colonies 1812-1855,” “Methodist Religious Experience” and “The Continuing Methodist Legacy” (co-written with William Emilsen).

Glen O’Brien, “John Wesley’s Rebuke to the Rebels of British America: Revisiting the Calm Address,” forthcoming in Methodist Review (2012).

Glen O’Brien, “Christian Perfection in Australian Methodism”, forthcoming in Chris Mostert, Gerald O’Collins SJ, Sean Winter, eds. Immense, Unfathomed, Unconfined: Essays on the Grace of God in Honour of Norman Young. Melbourne: Uniting Academic Press, 2012.

Glen O’Brien, “Not Radically a Dissenter: Samuel Leigh in the Colony of New South Wales,” in Wesley and Methodist Studies 4 (2012).

Glen O’Brien, “A Brief Introduction to the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia”, Uniting Church Studies 17:2 (December 2011).

Glen O’Brien, Review of William J. Abraham, Aldersgate and Athens: John Wesley and the Foundations of Christian Belief in Crucible Online Theology Journal 3:1 (April 2011).

Anthony Rees: PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University. Title: “A ‘Mosaic’ Reading of Numbers 25.”

Grattan Savage: PhD candidate, Murdoch University. Title: “The Historical Development of the Doctrine of Holiness in The Salvation Army in the Light of Global Expansion.”

Matthew Seaman, “Red, Yellow, Blue and Green: Eco-justice within the Salvation Army,” Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011).

Dean Smith, “The Failure of Classical Theism Demonstrated in a Noteworthy Christological Puzzle,” Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011).

Richard Waugh: “Discover Your Wesleyan DNA: A Curriculum for the Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand”, DMin thesis, Asbury Theological Seminary, 2010.

D’Arcy Wood, chapter on “Worship and Music” in the forthcoming History of Methodism in Australia.

Steve Wright: PhD candidate, Charles Sturt University. Title: The Beauty that Happens: Beauty in the Theology of  Robert Jenson”.

Steve Wright, (2011) “The Creator Sings: A Wesleyan Rethinking of Transcendence with Robert Jenson.” The Heythrop Journal LII (2011): 1-11.