ACWR Open Access Research
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David N. Field
‘Holiness, Social Justice and the Mission of the Church: John Wesley’s Insights in Contemporary Context,’ Holiness: The Journal of Wesley House Cambridge vol. 1:2 (2015), 177-198.
‘The Unrealised Ethical Potential of the Methodist Theology of Prevenient Grace,’ HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies vol. 71:1, (2015).
‘John Wesley as a Public Theologian: The Case of Thoughts upon Slavery”, Scriptura 114 (2015), 1-13.
Robert Gribben
‘Living Traditions in the Uniting Church’ (with questions for discussion) in Christopher C. Walker (ed.), Being and Doing Church, A Uniting Church Perspective. Adelaide: Mediacom, 2015.
Glen O'Brien
Pre-publication Draft: "'A Good and Sensible Man': John Wesley's Reading and Use of Jonathan Edwards", in Rhys Bezzant, ed. The Global Edwards: Papers from the Jonathan Edwards Congress held in Melbourne, 2015 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017), 247-60.
Pre-publication Draft: "Irving Benson: Preacher, Writer, Mission Superintendent (1897–1980)", in William Emilsen and Patricia Curthoys, eds. Out of the Ordinary: Twelve Australian Methodist Biographies (Adelaide: Mediacom, 2015), 2015
"Australian and New Zealand Methodists and the Great War", Methodist Recorder, 1 August 2014.
"John Wesley and Athanasius on Salvation in the Context of the Debate over Wesley’s Debt to Eastern Orthodoxy", Phronema, Vol. 28(2), 2013, 35-53
"John Wesley and Evangelical Experience", ACCatalyst 7(2), Apr 2013, pp. 11-14.
"Have Pity on an Intelligent Young Man in an Awful Position: Two Colonial Clergy Responses to Ned Kelly," Ethos (Centre for Christianity and Society) website, Feb 5, 2013.
"Christian Perfection in Australian Methodism," in Sean Winter, eds. Immense, Unfathomed, Unconfined: The Grace of God in Creation, Church and Community (Melbourne: Uniting Academic Press, 2013).
"John Wesley's Rebuke to the Rebels of British America: Revisiting the Calm Address," Methodist Review (Vol. 4, 2012): 31-55.
"The Empire’s Titanic Struggle: Victorian Methodism and the Great War", Aldersgate Papers vol. 10 (Sept 2012): 50-70.
“The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia," Uniting Church Studies 17:2 (Dec 2011): 67-81.
“Why Brengle? Why Coutts? Why Not?” in Mal Davies, ed. Love Divine – Excelling in Love: The Salvation Army’s Place in the Wesleyan Holiness Tradition. Windows of Opportunity vol. 5 (The Salvation Army Tri-Territorial Theological Forum, n.d. [2011]), 51-66.
"Review of Greg Dening's Church Alive! Pilgrimages in Faith 1956-2006" in History Australia 4:1 (2007).
"Reading Wesley's Sermons in Edwardian Melbourne," ch. 9 in Renate Howe, ed. The Master: the Life and Work of Edward H. Sugden (Melbourne: Uniting Academic press, 2009), 109-124.
“Methodist Religion Among the Soldiers of the American Civil War,” Aldersgate Papers vol. 7 (September 2009): 90-105
“They Made a Pentecostal Out of Her: The Church of God (Cleveland) in Australia,” Lucas Evangelical History Journal new series 1 (January 2009): 67-99.
“A Beautiful Virgin Country Ready for a Revival of Bible Holiness: Early Holiness Evangelists in Australia,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 42:2 (Fall, 2007): 155-81.
"North American Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia", PhD Thesis, La Trobe University, 2005.
"Just Another Queer Sect from Over the Pacific": Anti-Americanism and the Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia, Aldersgate Papers 4 (September 2003).
"A Trinitarian Revisioning of the Wesleyan Doctrine of Christian Perfection," Aldersgate Papers vol. 2 (September 2001): 17-68
Matthew Seaman
“(Re)discovering Watershed Discipleship”, Thought Matters 8 (2019): 11-24.
“Salvation, Hope and Apocalyptic: Emerging Ecologies”, Thought Matters 6 (2018): 63-72.
“‘To turn the world upside down’: Practical Holiness in the Anthropocene”, Word and Deed 19:2 (2017): 5-25.
'“To turn the world upside down”: Exploring Salvationist dimensions of (eco)holiness' in J Leader (ed.) The Greening of Religion: Hope in the Eye of the Storm. Cherry Hill Seminary Press, Columbia: SC. (2017): 179-199.
“Lord of all Creation” in Others 3:1 (2017): 12.
“Salvationist Socio-ecotheological Histories”, Australasian Journal of Salvation Army History 1:2 (2016): 72-83.
“Darkness and Deliverance: 125 years of the Darkest England scheme” in Pipeline 20:8 (2016): 32.
“Darkness and Deliverance” in On Fire 17:6 (2016):10-11.
Darkness and Deliverance: 125 years of the In Darkest England Scheme, Salvo Publishing/Chaordic Creative, 2016.
‘Introduction’ in Darkness and Deliverance, Salvo Publishing/Chaordic Creative, 2016.
With Spiller, C., and Merrett, A. “Environmental Justice”. Salvos Information Pack. Melbourne, VIC: Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory. 2016.
Review of Kapya J Kaoma (ed.) 'Creation Care in Christian Mission' in Australian Journal of Mission Studies 10:2 (2016): 74-75.
“The Earthiness of Jesus” in Pipeline 18:12 (2014): 42-43.
“Digging deep to grow community” in Pipeline 18:9 (2014): 32-33.
“Holiness, Health and Consumption, Part 3: What we do with” in Pipeline 18:8 (2014): 30-31.
“Holiness, Health and Consumption, Part 2: What we put in” in Pipeline 18:7 (2014): 30-31.
“Holiness, Health and Consumption, Part 1: What we put on” in Pipeline 18:6 (2014): 28-29.
“Down to Earth Salvation” in Pipeline 18:4 (2014): 32-33.
“Holy Living, Sustainable Living” in Pipeline 18:2 (2014): 30-31.
“The Salvaging Army” in Pipeline 17:11 (2013): 36-37.
“Living Water, Liveable Communities” in Pipeline 17:10 (2013): 20-21.
‘Red, Yellow, Blue and Green: Examining the Relationship between the Spiritual, Social and Ecological within The Salvation Army’, MPhil Thesis, University of Queensland, 2013.
‘Dark Green Religion and the Wesleyan Tradition: Harmony and Dissonance,’ Wesleyan Theological Journal 48:1 (Spring 2013): 135-48.
‘Recapturing a Salvationist Vision for all of Earth,’ Thought Matters 2 (2012): 97-107.
‘Red, Yellow, Blue and Green: Eco-justice within the Salvation Army,’ Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011): 48-66.
Review of Joseph Coleson, (ed.) 'Care of Creation: Christian Voices on God, Humanity, and the Environment', in Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011): 138-141.
Dean Smith
Review of Rob Fringer and Jeff L. Lane, Theology of Luck, in Crucible 6:3 (Nov 2015).
'The Failure of Classical Theism Demonstrated in a Noteworthy Christological Puzzle,’ Aldersgate Papers 9 (September 2011): 34-47.