Christiaan Mostert

Qualifications: 
MA BD PhD
College: 
Uniting Church Theological College
Staff Type: 
Academic Staff
Department Name: 
Department of Christian Thought and History
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Units taught
Unit Code Title Years Offered State
CT376 Theology of Jürgen Moltmann Current, published
CT476 Theology of Jürgen Moltmann Current, published
CT320 Christology
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT317 Church: Community for the Kingdom
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT317 Church: Community for the Kingdom
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT340 Ministry and Sacraments
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT377 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Protestant Theology
2010
2012
2014
 Current, published
CT477 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Protestant Theology
2010
2012
2014
 Current, published
CT329 The Triune God
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CH/CT179 Introduction to Theological Studies
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT220 Christology
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT240 Ministry and Sacraments
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT329 The Triune God
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published
CT101 Groundwork in Theology
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 Current, published

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.

Email: 
chris.mostert@ctm.uca.edu.au
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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