John Wilcken

John Wilcken is on the staff of Jesuit Theological College, Melbourne. He teaches in an ecumenical faculty, the United Faculty of Theology, Parkville. His doctoral work was done on the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor and theologian executed by the Nazis at the end of World War II. He has taught Systematic Theology for the last 42 years, working in a number of areas, especially Ecclesiology and the Theology of the Human Person.
 
In recent years he has been teaching and writing in the area of the relationship between Christian theology and Australian Aboriginal religions. Other special interests are: Liberation Theology, Feminist Theology, and a Theological Approach to Ecology.
 
John has also been extensively involved in retreat-giving and spiritual direction. An important area of pastoral concern has been work among homeless people, and he is at present Superior of a Jesuit Community living with homeless, alcoholic and emotionally-disturbed men at Greenvale, a suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne.