Revd Dr Scott Cowdell

Curriculum Vitae Scott Cowdell (as at May 2012)

CONTACT DETAILS

Charles Sturt University 15 Blackall Street Barton ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA

(Room 203, George Browning House)

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PERSONAL DETAILS

 age: 51 years (born 9 September 1960, Brisbane, Australia)  married 6 December 1986  no children  spouse Lisa Carley B.A.(Griffith), B.Litt.(Deakin), LL.B.(Hons)(Adelaide) (Lisa is a Principal Legal Adviser in the Australian Tax Office)  ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia: deacon (30 November 1987); priest (30 November 1988) in Brisbane

TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS

 Ph.D. University of Queensland, Brisbane (Theology) (examined by Rowan Williams, Dennis Nineham & James Haire) 1994  B.A. (Hons) University of Queensland (1st class honours) 1988  B.Th. Brisbane College of Theology (St Francis’ College) 1987  B.Sc. Griffith University (Physics & Mathematics) 1982

POSITIONS HELD

July 2007— Associate Professor and Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Canon Theologian, Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn 2002—2007 Rector of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Manuka (Canberra) ACT; Academic Associate in Theology, Charles Sturt University; Editor of St Mark’s Review 1998—2002 Principal of St Barnabas’ Theological College; Senior Lecturer in Theology at Flinders University, Adelaide; 1997—1998 Maynard Lecturer in Theology (& Acting Director), Trinity College Theological School, The University of Melbourne; Lecturer in Systematic Theology, United Faculty of Theology (MCD) 1992—1997 Rector, All Saints’ Anglican Church, Chermside (Brisbane); Part-time Lecturer: Brisbane College of Theology & The University of Queensland (Department of Studies in Religion) 1987—1992 Honorary Assistant Curate, Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Fortitude Valley (Brisbane); Graduate Student & Tutor, The University of Queensland (Department of Studies in Religion) 1983—1987 Theological Student, St Francis’ Theological College, Brisbane 1982 Resident Tutor, Griffith University Housing Village, Brisbane

PUBLICATIONS

1. René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture and Crisis (Notre Dame, IN.: The University of Notre Dame Press, under contract and submitted) 2. Abiding Faith: Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence (Eugene, OR.: Cascade, 2009; Lutterworth, UK: James Clark, 2010) 3. The Ten Commandments and Ethics Today (Melbourne: Acorn, 2008) 4. God’s Next Big Thing: Discovering the Future Church (Melbourne: John Garratt, 2004) 5. A God For This World (London & New York: Continuum, 2000) 6. Is Jesus Unique? A Study of Recent Christology (Theological Inquiries Series; Mahwah, NJ.: Paulist, 1996) 7. Atheist Priest? Don Cupitt and Christianity (London: SCM, 1988)

Books edited

 Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge (editors) Violence, Desire and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (London and New York: Continuum, forthcoming 2012)  Muriel Porter & Scott Cowdell (editors) Lost in Translation? Anglicans, Controversy and the Bible (Melbourne: DesBooks, 2004)

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (not including numerous book reviews, review articles & newspaper articles)

1. ‘Preaching Lent 2012’ St Mark’s Review 219/1 (2012) 52-61 2. ‘Conversion and Roman Catholicism: An Anglo-Catholic Ecclesiological Response to James Alison’ St Mark’s Review 218 (2011) 48-55. 3. ‘Preaching Epiphany: Reflections on the 2011 Epiphany Season and its Year A Eucharistic Readings’ St Mark’s Review 216 (2011) 54-63. 4. ‘The Library of the Future: Musings on the Politics of Meaning’ St Mark’s Review 213 (2010) 71-78. 5. ‘Theodicy and Animal Suffering in Darwin’s World’ St Mark’s Review 211 (2010) 43-51. 6. ‘What is Public Theology?’ St Mark’s Review 209 (2009) 59-67.

2 7. ‘Baptism in Australia: Secularisation, “Civil Baptism” and the Social Miracle’ in Stephen Burns and Anita Monro (eds), Christian Worship in Australia: Perspectives on Liturgical Enculturation (Sydney: St Paul’s Publications, 2009) 155-66. 8. ‘An Abusive Church Culture? Clergy Sexual Abuse and Systemic Dysfunction in Ecclesial Faith and Life’ St Mark’s Review 205 (2008) 31-49. 9. ‘Who Speaks for the Church? Anglican Voices and Australian Public Life’ St Mark’s Review 203 (2007) 71-79. 10. ‘Baptismal Ecclesiology and its Enemies’ in Graeme Garrett (ed) Into the World You Love: Encountering God in Everyday Life (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2007), pp. 202-210. 11. ‘Anglicanism, Post-Modernity and a Habitat for Giftedness’ in Bruce Kaye (ed) Wonderful and Confessedly Strange: Australian Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006) 179-195. 12. ‘Holy Spirit and Mission: Captivity and Charism in Mission-Shaped Church’ St Mark’s Review 200(2006) 43-49. 13. ‘On Loving the Church’ in Tom Frame & Geoffrey Treloar (eds) Agendas for Australian Anglicanism: Essays in Honour of Bruce Kaye (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006) 249-270. 14. ‘Meditation’ in Lynn L. Caruso (ed) Blessing the Animals: Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate God’s Creatures, Wild and Tame (Woodstock, VA: SkyLights Paths Publishing, 2006) 163-4. 15. ‘Homosexuality and the Clarity of Scripture: Reflecting with Peter Jensen’ in Muriel Porter & Scott Cowdell (editors) Lost in Translation? Anglicans, Controversy and the Bible (Melbourne: DesBooks, 2004) 114-130; also in Terry Brown (ed) Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks out on Homosexuality (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2006) 262-274. 16. ‘Theology and the Inner City: Some Issues’ St Mark’s Review 196 (2004) 4-6. 17. ‘Identity, Authority, Geography: Some Concerns about Church Planting’ St Mark’s Review 186 (2001) 3-9. 18. ‘Anglican Moral Theology & the Challenge of Same-Sex Unions’ in Faithfulness in Fellowship: Reflections on Homosexuality and the Church (Melbourne: John Garratt, 2001) 141-160. 19. ‘God and Postmodernity’ Interface 2/1 (1999) 93-105. 20. ‘Lay Vocation and Worship’ St Mark’s Review 172 (1998) 14-20. 21. ‘The Postmodern Church’ St Mark’s Review 168 (1997) 14-20; also appearing in Reo: A Journal of Theology and Ministry 10 (1998) 9-24. 22. ‘Word and Sacrament: A Reformed Catholic Reflection’ in Ivan Head (ed) Who May Celebrate? Boundaries of Anglican Order (Sydney: General Synod Commission on Doctrine, 1996) 20-26. 23. ‘Priestly Leadership, Eucharistic Presidency and Lay Vocation’ in Ivan Head (ed) Who May Celebrate? Boundaries of Anglican Order (Sydney: General Synod Commission on Doctrine, 1996) 59-65. 24. ‘All This and God Too: Postmodern Alternatives to Don Cupitt’ The Heythrop Journal 33 (1992) 267-282. 25. ‘Radical Theology, Postmodernity and Christian Life in the Void’ The Heythrop Journal 32 (1991) 62-71. 26. ‘Hans Küng and World Religions: The Emergence of a Pluralist’ Theology 92 (1989) 85-92.

3 27. ‘Eucharistic Liturgy: Theology, Context, Australianness’ Colloquium 21 (1989) 45-51.

Internationally Published Sermons

1. “Trinity Sunday: A Religion that Loves the World” (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XXIII/4 June-July 2012, pp. 7-8. 2. “Working With God” (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XXIII/2 February- March 2012, pp. 15-16 3. “The Coming Truth Versus the Ruling Lie” (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XXIII/1 December 2011-January 2012, pp. 15-16 4. ‘Religious Insiders Take Note’ (September 25th: Proper 21) in Expository Times 122/11, August 2011, pp. 552-55. 5. ‘The Kingdom of God: Good News and Bad’ (July 24th: Proper 12) in Expository Times 122/9, June 2011, pp. 445-47. 6. ‘Risen, Ascended, Glorified’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XXI/3 April- May 2010, pp. 30-32. 7. ‘2nd May: 5th of Easter’ in Expository Times 121/7, April 2010, pp. 348-50. 8. ‘7th March: 3rd in Lent’ in Expository Times 121/5, February 2010, pp. 239-40. 9. ‘8th November: Proper 27’ in Expository Times 121/1, October 2009, pp. 29- 30. 10. ‘All Saints Day: God in Colour’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XX/6 October-November 2009, pp. 46-7. 11. ‘Christ, Ethics and Church Leadership’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XX/5 August-September 2009, pp. 19-20. 12. ‘The Revenge of the Material’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XX/5 August-September 2009, pp. 25-26. 13. ‘Touching, Reconciling, Purifying’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XX/3 April-May 2009, pp. 33-4. 14. ‘Beyond Private Religion’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XX/3 April- May 2009, pp. 66-7. 15. ‘The Inclusive God’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/5 August- September 2008, pp. 31-2. 16. ‘No Christ Without His Church’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/5 August-September 2008, pp. 39-40. 17. ‘I Am the Gate—But What Sort of Gate?’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/3 April-May 2008, pp. 16-17. 18. ‘Trinity as Template for Peace’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/3 April-May 2008, pp. 55-6. 19. ‘Transfiguration: Jesus Redefines Reality’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/2 February-March 2008, pp. 11-13. 20. ‘Not Failing in the Wilderness’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XIX/2 February-March 2008, pp.19-20. 21. ‘Our Resurrection’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVIII/3 April-May 2007, pp. 63-64. 22. ‘Nothing Need Ever Be the Same’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVIII/2 February-March 2007, pp. 23-24.

4 23. ‘Choose Wisely’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVIII/2 February-March 2007, pp. 56-57. 24. ‘Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany’ in Lectionary Homiletics XVIII/1 December 2006-January 2007, pp. 72, 12. 25. ‘Good Friday: The All-Vulnerable God’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVII/3 April-May 2006, pp. 2-3. 26. ‘Easter: The Laughing Christ’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVII/3 April-May 2006, pp. 30-32. 27. ‘ What Sort of Lord Do We Meet in the Christmas Gospel?’ (Sermon) in Lectionary Homiletics XVII/1 December 2005-January 2006, pp. 37-8.

CURRENT MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT

A book entitled René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture and Crisis is complete and with the publisher. I am commencing work on its successor, René Girard and the Post-Violent God: A New Theology from Below. Both books are under contract with The University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana USA.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Courses Convened

 Incarnation in Modern Christian Thought (U of Qld)  Person and Work of Christ (BCT)  Anglican Studies (ACD/Flinders)  Homiletics (ACD/Flinders)  Anglican Foundations (CSU)  Creation & New Creation (CSU)  A Big Enough Faith (a lay education program at the ACD)  Being the Church (CSU)  Theology, Church & Ministry (CSU—an MMin course)  The Triune God (CSU)

Courses Team Taught

 Groundwork in Theology (UFT)  Christology and Trinity (UFT)  Ministry & Sacraments (UFT)  Liturgy & Worship (ACD/Flinders)

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT (CURRENT)

2011— Advisory Board Member, Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COVR). 2011— Founding President, The Australian Girard Seminar 2009— Consultant Editor, The Journal of Animal Ethics, University of Illinois

5 2008— Advisory Board Member, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (London), Book Series on Animal Ethics 2008— Honorary Academic Fellow, St Paul’s College, University of Sydney 2007— Honorary Assistant Priest, All Saints’ Anglican Church, Ainslie, ACT 2006— Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Animal Ethics

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT (PREVIOUS)

2010 Resident Scholar, Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, St John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota (Spring Term) 2010 Anglican Communion Representative, ‘Harvesting the Fruits’ Symposium, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Rome 2009 Speaker, Sesquicentenial Symposium On the Origin of Species, St Paul’s College, The University of Sydney 2009 Winner, American Lectionary Homiletics journal ‘Good Preacher Award’ 2009 Speaker, Australian Anglican Deans’ Conference, Canberra 2009 Speaker, Australia & New Zealand Association of Theological Libraries Conference, Canberra 2004-2008 Fellow of St Paul’s College, The University of Sydney 2007 Retreat Conductor, Anglican Benedictine Abbey, Camperdown, Vic. 2007 Keynote Speaker, Diocese of Newcastle Clergy Conference 2002-2007 Editor, St Mark’s Review 2005-2007 Bishop’s Appointee to Bishop-in-Council, Diocese of C & G. 2005-2007 Member, Steering Committee, University of Newcastle BTh degree 2006 Keynote Speaker, ‘Living Stones’ Conference, Newcastle 2005 Retreat Conductor and Preacher, Bathurst Diocesan Ordination 2005 Keynote Speaker, (Roman Catholic) National Pastoral Planning Network (NPPN) Conference, Newcastle 2004 Visiting Scholar & Priest-Assistant to the Warden, St Paul’s College, The University of Sydney, July-November 2004 2003 Consultant, Anglicare Australia Inner-Urban Mission Network 2003 Speaker at the Anglicare National Conference, Adelaide 2001 Seminar leader, National Anglican Youth Gathering, Adelaide, 2000-2001 President of the Adelaide College of Divinity 1998-2001 Member, Strategic Issues Advisory Panel of The Anglican Church of Australia (serving for its whole three-year term) 1998-2001 Member, Diocesan Council, Adelaide 1998 Member of the official Australian Anglican Delegation, World Council of Churches Assembly, Harare, Zimbabwe 1998 Consultant assisting ‘Vitalstatistix’, the National Women’s Theatre Company, with script, props and staging for their Adelaide production of the play ‘Whispering Demons’ 1997 Retreat Conductor and Preacher, Perth Diocesan Deacons’ Ordination 1997 Keynote Speaker, Diocese of Wangaratta Clergy Conference 1995-2009 Member, Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia 1995-1997 Member, St Francis’ Theological College Council, Brisbane 1995-1997 Chair, Ecumenical Tertiary Chaplaincy Committee, Brisbane (employing, supervising & supporting Chaplains at QUT & Griffith)

6 1992-1997 Member, Archbishop’s Advisory Committee on Liturgical Affairs, Brisbane 1988-1991 Secretary of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion 1991 Keynote Speaker, ‘Sea of Faith’ Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 1989 Keynote Speaker, ‘Sea of Faith II’ Conference, The University of Leicester, England.