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  • Bill Salier – ‘The Coca-Cola Christian’
  • Academic Biography

    1982 Bachelor of Education (University of Sydney)

    1989 Master of Education (with Merit) (University Sydney)

    1992 Bachelor of Theology (Honours 1)( ACT)

    1993 Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia, Sydney Diocese)

    1993 Dip.A. (Honours 1) (MTC)

    1997 Priested (Anglican Church of Australia, Sydney Diocese)

    1999 Master of Theology (ACT)

    2003 PhD (Cambridge University)

    PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

    1982-88 Primary School Teacher

    1989-92 Student, Moore College

    1993-95 Assistant Minister, St Luke’s Liverpool

    1999-00 Lecturer, Oak Hill College, London

    2003 Lecturer Moore Theological College

The Rev Dr Willis (Bill) Salier,

Vice Principal
Lectures in New Testament and Ministry


“Its a great community to be a part of”

Bill is married to Sue and they have three daughters, Talitha, Anna and Bella.

Bill has a special interest in John’s Gospel and letters and is currently thinking about the language of sonship, family and adoption through the Bible and the use of the Old Testament in John’s Gospel.

bill.salier@moore.edu.au

Books

‘The Rhetorical Impact of the Semeia in the Gospel of John’.  WUNT 2.186 T¨übingen: Mohr Siebeck, (2004)

‘Jesus.  All About Life’, co-authored with Peter Downey, Macquarie Park, NSW;  Bible Society NSW, (2005)

Book Chapters

‘Basil of Caesarea on Envy’ in Still Deadly, Ancient Cures for the 7 Sins. A Cameron & B Rosner (eds), Sydney:  Aquilla, (2007), pp. 51-66.

Articles & Essays

What’s in a World?  Kosmos in the Prologue of John’s Gospel’.  Reformed theological review 56/3 (Sept-Dec. 1997)

‘Smells like teen spirit?  Understanding and communicating to the culture of generation X’.  In Spirit and Millenium:  Christian Education in the Post Modern Era. Edited by Margaret Mears.  Adelaide:  Openbook.  (2001)

‘The Temple in the Gospel According to John’, Heaven on Earth, the Temple in a Biblical Theology, ed. By T. Desmond Alexander & Simon Gathercole Carlisle:  Paternoster, (2004) 121-34.

‘Jesus Christ is Lord’, Working Together 1 (2005), 12-13

‘The World of John’s Gospel:  The Meaning and Function of kosmos in the Gospel According to John’, M.Th. Thesis accepted by ACT, 1999.

The Rhetorical Impact of shmeia in the Fourth Gospel’  Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University.  Thesis accepted 2003.

The Structure of 1 John

The Influence of Isaiah in the Fourth Gospel

The Concept of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel

The Faithfulness of Christ and the Fourth Gospel

Sonship and Adoption

Unbelief in the Fourth Gospel

Holiness in 1 Corinthians