Christiaan Mostert

Chris Mostert  was ordained in 1968 as a Presbyterian minister and served in three parishes in Tasmania. In 1977 became a minister of the Uniting Church. Missionary service in South Korea (teaching theology) 1982-86. Lecturer in Systematic Theology at United Theological College, Sydney 1987-1995. He has been teaching Systematic Theology in the Uniting Church Theological Hall/College and the UFT since 1996

 

 

College: 
Uniting Church Theological College
chris.mostert@ctm.uca.edu.au
Department Name: 
Department of Systematic Theology
Phone Number: 
03 9340 8828
Office Location: 
CTM
Teaching Interests: 
Introduction to theology, Christology, Trinity, Church, Ministry, Sacraments, Theology in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Research Interests: 
The theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg, the doctrine of the Church, eschatology, the Trinity, justification.
Postgraduate Supervision: 
Modern and contemporary theologians, escha­tology, promise and hope, the Church.
Publications: 
  • Karl Barth: A Future for Postmodern Theology? Co-edited with Geoff Thompson, Hindmarsh, SA: Australian Theological Forum, 2000.
  • God and the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s eschatological doctrine of God, Edinburgh: T & T Clark / London: Continuum, 2002.
  •  ‘The Catholicity of the Church and the Universality of Theology’, Pacifica 16 (2), June 2003, 123-136.
  •  ‘Church, Ministry and Ordination: what Relation?’ Uniting Church Studies 10 (1), March 2004, 16-35.
  • Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers, edited with Peter Matheson. Melbourne: David Lovell Publishing, 2004. Introduction (ix-xii).
  •  ‘Living in Hope’, in C. Mostert (ed), Hope: Challenging the Culture of Despair (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004), 49-66.
  • ‘Theodicy and Eschatology’, in B. Barber & D. Neville (eds), Theodicy and Eschatology (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005), 97-120.
  • ‘The Horizon of the Future in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg’, in W. Cristaudo & W. Baker (eds), Messianism , Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006), 213-226.
  • ‘Paul Tillich as Existentialist and More’, in I. Weeks & D. Reid (eds), A Thoughtful Life: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006), 215-237.
  •  ‘Justification and Eschatology’, in Michael Weinrich & John P. Burgess (eds), What is Justification About? Reformed Contributions to an Ecumenical Theme (Grand Rapids, Michigan & Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2009), 185-206.
  • ‘The Church as an Echo of the Triune God’, in Eduardus Van Der Borght (ed), The Unity of the Church, Studies in Reformed Theology Vol 18 (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2010), 293-305.
  • ‘The Kingdom Anticipated: The Church and Eschatology’, in International Journal of Systematic Theology, some time in 2010.

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