 Andrew Dutney
Principal, Uniting College for Leadership and Theology
Professor, Flinders University School of Theology
Lecturer in Historical and Systematic Theology President-elect, Uniting Church in Australia BA (Qld), Dip Ecum St (St Andrews), PhD (St Andrews), Grad Cert Ter Ed (Flinders), EdD (Flinders) Tel: 08 8416 8431 Email:
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Teaching and Research
I teach systematic theology, Uniting Church studies, and ethics. My recent research interests have been in
* Theological education
* Ethics
* The Basis of Union of the Uniting Church
* Public Theology
I have recently completed the Doctor of Education program at Flinders University, concentrating on different aspects theological education in the Uniting Church.
The Story So Far
I came to South Australia in 1989 to take up an appointment as lecturer in systematic theology at Parkin-Wesley College. I was appointed as Principal of Parkin-Wesley College in 2001. I came to Adelaide from Sydney, where I'd been the Uniting Church's chaplain to Sydney University and the minister of the Wesley College Chapel Parish. For several years before that I had lived and worked in Scotland where I was a postgraduate student at the University of St Andrews and the assistant minister in a Church of Scotland parish in Leven, Fife. I was ordained in that parish in Scotland. But I am a Queenslander by birth. I was born in the RFDS Base Hospital in Charleville in 1958. After attending state primary schools in Charleville and Toowong, and Brisbane Boys' College for high school, I was educated at the University of Queensland and Trinity Theological College, Brisbane.
I was the founding Director of the Centre for Theology, Science and Culture from 1999 until 2005. I was the chairperson of the SA Council on Reproductive Technology from 1996 until 2005. I'm a member of the Advisory Board of the Ethics Centre of South Australia and the chairperson of the research ethics committee of the Adelaide College of Divinity.
I am fortnightly guest on ABC Local Radio 891 "Mornings", leading talk-back conversations on spirituality, ethics and society. I write a regular column in Australian Leadership, focussing on questions of public and practical theology that emerge through my involvement with the wider South Australian community. I chair the Uniting Church's national Church Polity Reference Committee and I'm also a member of its Doctrine Working Group. In July 2009 I was chosen to be the next President of the national Assemby of the Uniting Church in Australia. I will be installed in that position in July 2012 and will serve full-time for three years. In the meantime, as President-elect, I am learning all I can to help me be effective in that role - with the help of the President, the Ex-President and the General Secretary of the Assembly. Mentoring is everything...really!
Selected Publications
Introducing the Uniting Church in Australia (Sydney: The Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, 2008) 39pp
'A genuinely educated ministry: three studies on theological education in the Uniting Church in Australia (Adelaide: MediaCom, 2007) 205pp
"So different so quickly" The Impact of Church Union on the Ministry
(Adelaide: Uniting Church Historical Society, 2005) 12pp
The Seeker: Studies in Comparative and International Education Number 16
Edited by Sivakumar Alagumalai, Murray Thompson, James Anthony Gibbons and Andrew Dutney
(Adelaide: Flinders University Institute of International Education, 2004) 235 pp
Playing God: Ethics and Faith
(Melbourne: HarperCollins, 2001) 194 pp
Where Did The Joy Come From? Revisiting the Basis of Union
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 2001) 56 pp
Food, Sex & Death: A Personal Account of Christianity
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1993) 176 pp
From Here To Where? Australian Christians Owning the Past, Embracing the Future
Edited by Andrew Dutney
(Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education, 1988) 156 pp
Manifesto For Renewal: The Shaping of a New Church
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1986) 141 pp
"Religion, infertility and assisted reproductive technology"
Best practice and research. Clinical obstetrics and gynaecology. Vol 21 No 1 (2007) 169-180
"Hoping for the Best: Christian Theology of Hope in the Meaner Australia"
in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
Edited by Jaklin A. Eliott (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2004) pp. 49-60
"Theological Education and the Identity of the Uniting Church in Australia"
in The Seeker: Studies in Comparative and International Education Number 16
Edited by Sivakumar Alagumalai, Murray Thompson, James Anthony Gibbons and Andrew Dutney
(Adelaide: Flinders University Institute of International Education, 2004) pp. 179-186
"A Christian Case for Allowing the Destruction of Embryos in Stem Cell Research"
Interface Vol 7, No 2, October 2004, pp.95-100, Stem Cell Research and Cloning: Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity Edited by Gareth Jones and Mary Byrne (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004)
"Does the Basis of Union call us to do justice?"
in Doing Justice: Stories of Hope from Everyday Believers Edited by Rosemary Hudson Miller and Nancy Victorin-Vangerud (Sydney: Uniting Church Press, 2003) pp.15-18
"Bioethics, Ecology and Theology"
in Earth Revealing - Earth Healing: Ecology and Christian Theology Edited by Denis Edwards (Collegeville, Minnesota: A Michael Glazier Book, The Liturgical Press, 2001) pp 213-230
"Contraception"
in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought Edited by Adrian Hastings et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp 134-135
"Reproductive Technology"
in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought Edited by Adrian Hastings et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp 614-615 ___________________________________________________________________ Andrew appears fortnightly on ABC radio 891 in Adelaide on Mornings with Matthew Abraham and David Bevan (8.30-12.00).
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