1985 Bachelor of Arts Double Honours (1st plus medal in Music, 2A Psychology) (University of Sydney)
1993 PhD (University of Sydney)
1994 Bachelor of Theology Honours 2A (ACT); Diploma of Ministry (MTC)
2001 Master of Professional Education and Training (Open and Distance Education specialism) (Deakin)
2001 Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)
2002 Priested (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1985 Research Assistant, Department of Music, University of Sydney (half-time)
1985 MTS, St Barnabas’, Broadway (half-time)
1986-90 Ph.D. studies, including fourteen months fieldwork in central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory; part-time tutoring and casual lecturing in Music and Aboriginal Performing Arts, University of Sydney
1991-93 Student, Moore College
1994 Missionary-in-training, St Andrew’s Hall, CMS
1995-06 Missionary, CMS in the Diocese of the NT
1995-01 Theology Lecturer and Dean of Anglican Students, Nungalinya College, Darwin
1998 Academic Dean, Nungalinya College
1999 Act. Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College
2000-01 Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College
2002-06 Aboriginal Ministry Development Officer, Diocese of the Northern Territory
2002-06 Honorary Assistant Priest, Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin
2006 Honorary Locum Tenens, St Luke’s Palmerston
The Rev Dr Gregory (Greg) Anderson
Head of Missions Department
“Mission is a great model for ministry”
Greg teaches mission subjects. His research interests include Aboriginal Christian faith, missional/emerging churches, the Christian/Muslim interface, dessert recipes, ways to beat squash opponents fifteen years younger than him and cryptic crossword solutions.
‘Striking a Balance: Limited Variability in Performances of a Clan Song Series from Central Arnhem Land’, in The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song: Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis, Oceania Monographs 41, 1995, 12-26.
Review of The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet, Karl Neuenfeldt (ed.), John Libbey, Sydney, 1997, in Media Australia International, 1997.
Review of Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford, Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001, in Musicology Australia (26), 2003, 136-39.
‘Musical Times: The Interplay between Metrical Time and Real Time in a Central Arnhem Land Clan Song Series’, in Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land, F. Magowan and K. Neuenfeldt (eds.). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.
Review of Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr. The Indigenous Music of Australia CD 1. Sydney University Press, 2007. CD and booklet, in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2007/2.
Book: Aboriginal Ceremonies and the Bible, published by St Matthew’s, Ngukurr, NT.
Article on guidance, AFES Salt magazine, first quarter 2008
Monographs
“Supporting and developing Aboriginal ministry” in One Land, One Saviour (ed. P. Carroll and S. Etherington, Sydney: CMS Australia, pp.27-37
Murlarra: A Clan Song Series of Central Arnhem Land. Ph.D. Thesis accepted by the University of Sydney, 1993.
Arnhem Land Aboriginal Christian Dance. A research paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Liturgy, Adelaide, 1998.
Developing Theology Among Vernacular-Speaking Indigenous Australians. A research report by Greg Anderson and Peter J. Carroll funded by the Australian Research Theology Foundation, 2005.
Integrating Indigenous People with Diocesan Structures. A research project funded by Anglican Church of Australia General Synod Research Office, 2005.
Paper for School of Theology 2008 on Aboriginal understanding of spiritual powers
Participant, Institute of Teaching and Learning three-day course on Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, February 2007
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Interests
Music, Cryptic crosswords
Online resources
Academic Biography
1985 Bachelor of Arts Double Honours (1st plus medal in Music, 2A Psychology) (University of Sydney)
1993 PhD (University of Sydney)
1994 Bachelor of Theology Honours 2A (ACT); Diploma of Ministry (MTC)
2001 Master of Professional Education and Training (Open and Distance Education specialism) (Deakin)
2001 Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)
2002 Priested (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1985 Research Assistant, Department of Music, University of Sydney (half-time)
1985 MTS, St Barnabas’, Broadway (half-time)
1986-90 Ph.D. studies, including fourteen months fieldwork in central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory; part-time tutoring and casual lecturing in Music and Aboriginal Performing Arts, University of Sydney
1991-93 Student, Moore College
1994 Missionary-in-training, St Andrew’s Hall, CMS
1995-06 Missionary, CMS in the Diocese of the NT
1995-01 Theology Lecturer and Dean of Anglican Students, Nungalinya College, Darwin
1998 Academic Dean, Nungalinya College
1999 Act. Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College
2000-01 Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College
2002-06 Aboriginal Ministry Development Officer, Diocese of the Northern Territory
2002-06 Honorary Assistant Priest, Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin
2006 Honorary Locum Tenens, St Luke’s Palmerston
The Rev Dr Gregory (Greg) Anderson
Head of Missions Department
Greg teaches mission subjects. His research interests include Aboriginal Christian faith, missional/emerging churches, the Christian/Muslim interface, dessert recipes, ways to beat squash opponents fifteen years younger than him and cryptic crossword solutions.
greg.anderson@moore.edu.au
Articles
‘Striking a Balance: Limited Variability in Performances of a Clan Song Series from Central Arnhem Land’, in The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song: Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis, Oceania Monographs 41, 1995, 12-26.
Review of The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet, Karl Neuenfeldt (ed.), John Libbey, Sydney, 1997, in Media Australia International, 1997.
Review of Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford, Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001, in Musicology Australia (26), 2003, 136-39.
‘Musical Times: The Interplay between Metrical Time and Real Time in a Central Arnhem Land Clan Song Series’, in Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land, F. Magowan and K. Neuenfeldt (eds.). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.
Review of Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from Western Arnhem Land by Kevin Djimarr. The Indigenous Music of Australia CD 1. Sydney University Press, 2007. CD and booklet, in Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2007/2.
Book: Aboriginal Ceremonies and the Bible, published by St Matthew’s, Ngukurr, NT.
Article on guidance, AFES Salt magazine, first quarter 2008
Monographs
“Supporting and developing Aboriginal ministry” in One Land, One Saviour (ed. P. Carroll and S. Etherington, Sydney: CMS Australia, pp.27-37
Murlarra: A Clan Song Series of Central Arnhem Land. Ph.D. Thesis accepted by the University of Sydney, 1993.
Arnhem Land Aboriginal Christian Dance. A research paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Liturgy, Adelaide, 1998.
Developing Theology Among Vernacular-Speaking Indigenous Australians. A research report by Greg Anderson and Peter J. Carroll funded by the Australian Research Theology Foundation, 2005.
Integrating Indigenous People with Diocesan Structures. A research project funded by Anglican Church of Australia General Synod Research Office, 2005.
Paper for School of Theology 2008 on Aboriginal understanding of spiritual powers
Participant, Institute of Teaching and Learning three-day course on Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, February 2007
Hymnology and the Romantic Movement
Indigenous Christian spiritual expression