Reverend Doctor Steve Taylor

Full Academic Status

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 84168421

steve.taylor@flinders.edu.au

Adelaide College of Divinity

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

I completed postgraduate work in religion and cultural change, both in terms of how Christianity expresses it's faith in content (theology) and in practice (ecclesiology). My interest is in new and emerging forms of Christian practice, both within the church and within contemporary culture.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Otago (2004). A New Way of Being Church? used a practical theology model to exploring church, mission and worship in the contemporary environment.

Masters in Theology, University of Auckland (1996). Angst and Atonement, gained first class honours for a critical investigation of contextual atonement images in a postmodern New Zealand urban context.

Bachelor in Theology, University of Auckland (1995).

Bachelor of Horticulture, Lincoln University (1992).

Honours, awards and grants

2015 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching. For leading sustained innovation in theological pedagogy over six years, implementing quality improvements that ensure the embedded diversity of the student body is a resource in contextualising, personalising and deepening the overall teaching and learning experience.

2014 EHL Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

2014 EHL Community of Practice research

Teaching interests

theology of popular culture, ecclesiology, new forms of church.

Supervisory interests

Church and society

Ethnographic method

Ethnography

Innovation and enterprise

Popular culture, film and television

Religion

Theology

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: action research study of Trinity on ministry life (1), ecclesiology and ethnographic study of experiences of forgiveness (1), Lived Experience, Meaning Making and the Place of Contemporary Christianity through accounts and studies with young adults (1), A missional pneumatology of the Basis of Union of the Uniting Church in Australia (1)

Associate supervisor: how do pastoral leaders working in multi-ethic communities enhance their cultural competency (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: spiritual formation (Adelaide College of Divinity) (1), Preaching (Australian College Theology) (1)

Associate supervisor: Chaplaincy (Adelaide College of Divinity) (1)

Professional engagement

I run my own website, on which I write regularly on culture, change, mission and leadership. This can be found at http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz. Resources produced here have been used by people around the world.

I have, since 2005, written a monthly column for Touchstone magazine, exploring theological themes in film.

I work with a range of church groups in regard to leadership, community engagement and new forms of church. Recent examples include

Keynote addresses (4) General Assembly, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, Wellington, October 2014
Keynote speaker, National Ministers Conference, Uniting Church in Australia, in Sydney, rural Queensland and Jerusalem.
Keynote address to Catholic Education, Adelaide, March 2012
Keynote conference speaker, Summer Spirit, Perth, Western Australia, February 2012

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Interests

contemporary spirituality
religious expressions of spirituality
theological perspectives on film

Further information

I am the author of Built for Change: a practical theology of innovation and collaboration in leadership (Mediacom, 2016) and The Out of Bounds Church? Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change, (Zondervan, 2005), which was translated into Korean in 2008.