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  • Academic Biography

    1992 Bachelor of Arts (Honours 1) (University of Sydney)

    1999 Bachelor of Divinity (Honours 1) (MTC)

    1999 Diploma of Ministry (MTC)

    2001 Priested, Anglican Church of Australia

    2006 Master of Theology (Merit) (MTC)

    2008 Doctor of Philosophy (Oxford)

    PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

    1993-95 English Master, Sydney Grammar School

    1996-99 Student, Moore College

    2000-03 Chaplain, St Andrew’s Cathedral School

    2000-03 Assistant Minister, St Andrew’s Cathedral

    2000-04 Church Planter and Pastor, FIX Church

    2003-05 Lecturer Moore Theological College

The Rev Dr Michael Jensen

Assistant to Academic Dean
Lectures in Doctrine and Church History


“I’m Interested in taking christian faith and integrating it into the way culture works”

Michael and Catherine have recently returned from the UK with their four children, Simon, Sacha, Matilda and Freya. Michael wrote his doctorate on Martyrdom and the Self and now teaches doctrine and church history. His current research interest is in the theology of human being and he is working on a project on the doctrine of God.

Michael is passionate about cricket, Top Gear and blogging.

michael.jensen@moore.edu.au

Monographs

You: An Introduction Kingsford: Matthias Media, 2008

Martyrdom and Identity Edinburgh: T&T Clark, (forthcoming)

‘Krisis? Kritik? – Judgement and Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams’ in M.Russell, ed, On Rowan Williams Wipf & Stock, 2008

You: An Introduction Matthias Media, 2008

Reviews

Review of E.Castelli, Martyrdom and Memory’ in Studies of Christian Ethics 20.1 (2007) p. 125f.

” ‘In Spirit and In Truth’ – Can Charles Taylor help the Woman at the Well find her authentic self? ” Studies in Christian Ethics 2008 21: 325-341.

Articles

“Simply Reading the Geneva Bible” in Literature and Theology 9/1 March 1995 30-45

“May Our Literature Save Us” in Kategoria 9 Autumn 1998, 9-34

“Theology of Art thingy” in Kategoria

“The Gospel of Creation” in Reformed Theological Review 59/3 Dec 2000, 130-140.

“Is There Anything in What We Say? A Trinitarian Response to the Challenge of Postmodernism” in Reformed Theological Review 60/1 April 2001, 18-30

“Left Behind? Christian Eschatology and Society in the Age of Terror” in Reformed Theological Review 63/3 December 2004

“The Genesis of Hell: Eternal Torment in the Consciousness of Early Christianity” in Reformed Theological Review 65/3 December 2006 132-148

“Mission Recalibrated – Chris Wright’s The Mission of God’ in Anvil 24/4, 2007, 279-288

“In Spirit and In Truth – Can Charles Taylor help the Woman at the Well find her authentic self?” in Studies in Christian Ethics 21/3, 2008, 325-341

Krisis? Kritik? – Judgement and Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams” in M. Russell, ed, On Rowan Williams (Wipf & Stock, 2008)

“The Christian Revolution: Liberty” in Churchman 122/2, 2008, 147-158

“ The Christian Revolution: Equality” in Churchman 122/3, 2008, 243-250

“ The Christian Revolution: Fraternity” in Churchman 122/4, 2008, 331-342

“Imitating Paul, Imitating Christ: How does imitation work as a moral concept?” in Churchman 123/1 (forthcoming)

Articles in The Briefing & Southern Cross

“The Christian Revolution: Liberty” in Churchman 122/2

“ The Christian Revolution: Equality” in Churchman 122/3

“ The Christian Revolution: Fraternity” in Churchman 122/4

Review of P. Bolt Living with the Underworld, The Briefing

Review of S.Timmis, Total Church, Southern Cross

 

Contracts

T&T Clark/Continuum for publication of PhD thesis I wish to be What I am:  Martyrdom and the Self in Theological Perspective.

IVP UK for chapter on ‘Figuring Calvin:  Calvin’s hermeneutics (almost) five centuries on’ in monograph on the theology of John Calvin by Mark Thompson (Ed.)

Simply Reading the Geneva Bible A thesis accepted by the University of Sydney in part fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree (1992)

The Genesis of Hell A thesis accepted by Moore College in part fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Divinity (Honours) degree (1999)

After Liberalism? – Political Theology at the Turn of the Millennium A thesis accepted by Moore College in part fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Theology degree (2005)

I Wish to be None Other than I Am:  Martyrdom and the Self in Theological Perspective A thesis accepted by Oxford University in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of D.Phil (2008)

Theological Anthropology