1969 Bachelor of Science (University of Sydney)
1974 Th.L (Honours 2) (ACT)
1975 Bachelor of Divinity (Honours 2A) (London)
1975 Dip.A. Theol. (Honours 2A) (MTC)
1982- Licensed to Officiate in the Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Sydney
1982 PhD (Aberdeen University)
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1970-71 Scientific Officer, Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals, Division of Clinical Chemistry
1976-78 Curate at St Stephen’s Willoughby
1979-81 Priest-in-Charge St Clement’s Mastrick, Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Episcoal Church of Scotland
1982-97 Sunday Assistant, various congregations in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, including St Matthias Centennial Park
1998 Assistant, St Matthias at UNSW
Members
Interests
fishing,
music – jazz,
skiing,
long distance walks,
shooting wild pigs
Online resources
Academic Biography
1969 Bachelor of Science (University of Sydney)
1974 Th.L (Honours 2) (ACT)
1975 Bachelor of Divinity (Honours 2A) (London)
1975 Dip.A. Theol. (Honours 2A) (MTC)
1982- Licensed to Officiate in the Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of Sydney
1982 PhD (Aberdeen University)
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
1970-71 Scientific Officer, Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals, Division of Clinical Chemistry
1976-78 Curate at St Stephen’s Willoughby
1979-81 Priest-in-Charge St Clement’s Mastrick, Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Episcoal Church of Scotland
1982-97 Sunday Assistant, various congregations in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, including St Matthias Centennial Park
1998 Assistant, St Matthias at UNSW
The Rev Dr Robert Doyle
Lectures in Theology and Church History
Robert is keen on family life, especially adores his grandchildren. Fishing and listening to all kinds of music (mostly classical and jazz) are pleasant distractions. Over the last 25 years, Robert has moved from studies in Calvin’s theology to researching and writing on the Trinity and back to Calvin. Work on ecclesiology and an introductory systematic theology are ever at hand.
Rob feels privileged to be in his third church plant and to see many students heading for the same.
robert.doyle@moore.edu.au
Monographs
Co–author, Travelling Together: Australian Guide for the ARCIC Final Report. Sydney: the Australian Study Guide Committee of the ARCIC Final Report, 1984.
Reformation Church History. Sydney: External Studies, Moore Theological College, 1987.
Editor and Contributor, Signs and Wonders and Evangelical Ministry: A Response to theTeaching of John Wimber. Sydney: Lancer, 1987.
Co-author, The Saints and Christian Prayer: An Agreed Statement of AustARC November 1997. Melbourne: Franciscan Press, 1997.
Eschatology and the Shape of Christian Belief. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999.
Historical Theology. 2 vols. Sydney: External Studies, Moore Theological College (forthcoming).
Contributor, ‘Suppressed Truth: Donald Robinson’s contribution to understanding baptism’, in The Collected Works of Donald Robinson, volume 3: An Appreciation (Sydney: Matthias Press, 2008).
‘Strategies and Consequences in Calvin’s teaching on the Trinity’, in Mark D. Thompson (ed) Engaging with Calvin: aspects of the Reformer’s legacy for today (Nottingham: Apollos, 2009) 82-105.
Articles
‘John Calvin, His Modern Detractors, and the Place of the Law in Christian Ethics’. Reformed Theological Review 41 (1982): 74–83.
‘The death of Christ and the doctrine of grace in John Wycliffe’. Churchman 99 (1985): 317–35.
‘The Preaching of Repentance in John Calvin: Repentance and Union with Christ’. Pages 287–321 in God Who is Rich in Mercy: Studies Presented in Honour of D. B. Knox. Edited by P. T. O’Brien and D. G. Peterson. Sydney: Anzea, 1986.
‘Sexuality, Personhood, and the Image of God’. Pages 43–56 in Explorations 1: Personhood, Sexuality and Christian Ministry. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1987.
‘Women’s Ministry, Social Flexibility and the 16th Century’. Reformed Theological Review 46 (1987): 1–9.
‘Pastoral Implications of the Miraculous: A Response to John Wimber’s “Signs and Wonders”’. Southern Cross (November 1987): 10–12.
‘The Search for Theological Models: The Christian in His Society in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries’. Pages 27–72 in Explorations 3: Christians in Society. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1988.
‘Decision Making at the Boundaries of Life and Death: How Religious Beliefs Affect Ethical judgments’. Pages 49–82 in Explorations 4: The Ethics of Life and Death. Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1990.
‘The Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son’. Pages 19–48 in Explorations 6: Spirit of the Living God (Part Two). Edited by B. G. Webb. Sydney: Lancer, 1992.
‘God and the Feminist Critique: A Review Article’. Reformed Theological Review 52 (1993): 12–22.
‘Scholastic Orthodoxy, Piety and Sydney Anglicanism’. Lucas: An Evangelical History Review 18 (1994): 21–49.
‘Searching for Grace Through Repentance, the Journey from Tertullian through Calvin to Richard Foster’. Pages 15–39 in Explorations 9: Responding to the Gospel: Evangelical Perspectives on Christian Living. Edited by B. G. Webb. Adelaide: Openbook, 1995.
‘“Lay Administration” and the 16th Century’. Pages 27–40 in Lay Presidency at the Eucharist: A Theological Consultation. A Report of the General Synod Commission on Doctrine. Edited by I. Head. The Standing Committee of General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia, May 1995.
‘Word and Sacrament in Catholic and Evangelical Theology’. Pages 8–19 in Who may Celebrate? Boundaries of Anglican Order. Edited by I. Head. Sydney: Standing Committee of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, 1996.
‘Models of Mission and the Doctrine of the Spirit’. Pages 69–88 in Explorations 12: Ripe for Harvest: Christian Mission in the New Testament and in Our World. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Adelaide: Openbook, 1998.
‘The Uniqueness of Christ, “Chalcedon” and Mission’. Pages 345–63 in The Gospel to the Nations: Essays in Honour of Peter Thomas O’Brien on his sixty–fifth Birthday. Edited by P. G. Bolt and M. D. Thompson. Leicester: IVP, 2000.
‘The Search for Self and Christian Eschatology: Reconciled and Reconciling Humanity’. In Explorations 13: Who am I? Perspectives on Christian Anthropology. Edited by R. J. Gibson. Adelaide: Openbook (forthcoming).
‘Use and abuse of the fathers and the Bible in trinitarian theology: review article of Kevin Giles, The Trinity and Subordinationism, IVP, Downers Grove, 2002.’ The Briefing, #307 April 2004.
‘Penal Atonement: the orthodox teaching of the Fathers and three conversations with John Calvin: part 1, the orthodox teaching of the Fathers.’ Reformed Theological Review, forthcoming 2006.
‘Penal Atonement: the orthodox teaching of the Fathers and three conversations with John Calvin: part 2, towards an appropriate theological presentation.’ Reformed Theological Review, forthcoming 2006.
‘The problematic Relation of God and History: part 1, the Bible and the resurrection’. Explorations, forthcoming 2006.
‘The problematic Relation of God and History: part 2, discerning the connections’. Explorations, forthcoming 2006
‘Basic Expectations, strategies and consequences: towards understanding the triune God in the company of John Calvin’, Reformed Theological Review’ 68 (2009) 141-174
‘The Context of Moral Decision Making in the Writings of John Calvin: The Christological Ethics of Eschatological Order’. Ph.D. Thesis accepted by the University of Aberdeen, 1981.
Exegetical tradition of Martin Luther and John Calvin on the topics of Union with Christ and Atonement.
‘The Change in Christian Imagination: A Comparison of John Napier and J. N. Darby’. Paper delivered at Millennium Meeting, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Sydney 1998; and article.
The Evangelical Doctrine of the Church, monograph.
Gospel and Trinity: is the doctrine of the Trinity an exposition of the gospel?, monograph.
Introductory Handbook to Christian Theology