Who Are My Teachers?
Rev Dr Frank Rees
BA (Hons), MA, BD (Hons), TheolM, PhD, DipEd
Principal
Professor of Systematic Theology
Frank Rees studied Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and theology at Whitley. He served in a number of suburban pastorates in Melbourne, then undertook doctoral studies at Manchester. For seven years he was minister of the Hobart Baptist Church. Frank is a member of the Ashburton Baptist Church.
Frank represents the Baptist Union of Victoria on the Council of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He is currently serving as President of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools.
At present, Frank is Vice-Chair of the International Commission on Doctrine and Inter-Church Relations, within the Baptist World Alliance.
Frank's teaching and research interests include contemporary approaches to christology and ecclesiology, and contextual theologies - especially Australian theology and spirituality.
Frank is married to Merilyn, and they have three young people engaged in tertiary education.
Blog: www.tobefrank.com
Email: frees@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Ross Langmead
MA, MEd, BD (Hons), DTheol
Dean
Professor of Missiology
Ross Langmead trained as a school teacher before doing further study in philosophy of religion (at the University of Melbourne), religious studies (at Lancaster, UK), theology (at Whitley College) and missiology (through the Melbourne College of Divinity). He researched ways churches could respond to their context, published in the Western Suburbs Conference Report (Baptist Union of Victoria, 1978). From 1980 to 1992 he was a lay pastor on the team at Westgate Baptist Community, where he is still a member.
He was appointed Whitley College’s first lecturer in mission studies in 1993. He was director of the School of World Mission from 2000 to 2006. He has been appointed as Dean of the Theological School in 2009.
Ross’s doctoral study was on incarnational mission and was published in The Word Made Flesh (2004). He also edited Re-imagining God and Mission (2007), on contextual mission in Australia, and has published numerous articles and reviews, particularly on mission theology, reconciliation, ecotheology and multiculturalism. He is the founding secretary of the Australian Association for Mission Studies and convener of the Melbourne-based Mission Studies Network.
He serves on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Mission Studies. He is a member of the International Association for Mission Studies, the Australian Society for the Study of Religion and the Anabaptist Network in Australia and New Zealand. He chairs the Baptist Union of Victoria’s New Missional Communities network.
Ross is a composer of many congregational songs. The music for most of them (as well as the full-text of most of Ross’s published articles) can be downloaded from www.rosslangmead.com.
Email: rlangmead@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Keith Dyer
TPTC, BA, BTheol, DTheol
Professor of New Testament
Coursework Co-ordinator
Keith was a Primary Teacher in rural and suburban Victoria, a Youth Leader at Blackburn Baptist Church, and then taught for 5 years in the Solomon Islands at Su'u Secondary School, before returning to Australia and theological studies at Whitley College.
He went on to Doctoral studies in New Testament with Rev Dr Athol Gill, and then taught for three years at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Rüschlikon, in Switzerland, before coming back to Whitley in 1994.
Through his speaking engagements and involvement in local churches,, Keith is passionate about encouraging open, analytical and interactive group Bible study. He is married to Lynne, has four sons, and is a member of Box Hill Baptist Church. Keith is the current Chair of the Academic Board of the Melbourne College of Divinity.
Email: kdyer@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Rev Dr Simon Holt
DipBibStuds, BTheol, ThM, PhD
Lecturer in Spirituality and Pastoral Care
Simon qualified as a Chef before entering the Baptist ministry in Queensland and then Victoria. He held pastorates at Tarampa and Woodridge (Queensland) and Cranbourne and Waverley (Victoria) before undertaking postgraduate studies in Theology and Practical Theology with Professor Robert Banks at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Simon came to Whitley in 2001 from the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute at Macquarie University. Through his involvement with house church networks in Australia, The Zadok Institute, and the International Marketplace Theology Forum, Simon is committed to the public interface of theology and spirituality with society and everyday life. He is married to Brenda and has two children.
Simon has recently published a book called God Next Door which received the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award (2008).
Blog: www.simoncareyholt.typepad.com
Email: sholt@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Dr Mark Brett
BA, MDiv, PhD
Professor of Old Testament
Research Co-ordinator
Mark grew up in Papua New Guinea, which formed the foundation for a life-long exploration of the relationship between culture and theology.
He studied philosophy and history at Queensland University (BA), but through studying at Princeton Seminary (MDiv) with many students from the two-thirds world, he discovered a passion for the Hebrew Bible. A semester spent in Germany provided the experience of learning from great thinkers such as Jürgen Moltmann, and after completing his PhD at the University of Sheffield, he taught for several years at Lincoln Theological College in England.
This range of learning environments, from PNG to large German Universities, has meant that Mark has developed a particular interest in how culture influences the way people read the Bible.
He has been an executive editor of the interdisciplinary journal Biblical Interpretation (published in the Netherlands), and currently serves on the editorial boards of Pacifica (Melbourne) and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (London) and The Bible and Critical Theory (Monash). He is a member of Brunswick Baptist Church and was the Policy Officer at Native Titles Services Victoria, 2005-2008.
Email: mbrett@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Rev Marita Munro
MA, BD, DipEd, TheolM
Lecturer in Church History, Lecturer in Greek
Marita trained for the ministry at Whitley College. She held a student pastorate at Brunswick/West Coburg/West Moreland Baptist Churches in 1977 before being appointed to the staff at the House of the Gentle Bunyip and Clifton Hill Baptist Church in 1978 where she worked for six years. Later Marita trained as a secondary school teacher and taught in Melbourne schools for five years. After gaining her Master of Theology degree from the Rüschlikon Baptist Seminary, she was appointed part-time ETA lecturer in 1991 and three years later joined the Whitley faculty.
Marita is currently undertaking doctoral research through the History Department of The University of Melbourne in recent Victorian Baptist history. She has undertaken interim ministries in Baptist churches around Melbourne and currently attends the South Yarra Baptist Church. Marita chairs the Victorian Baptist Union's Pastoral Leadership Selection Committee and serves on the Executive of the Victorian Baptist Historical Society and the Baptist Union Advisory Board.
Email: mmunro@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Rev David Enticott
BComm, GradDipBus, BTheol, ADipMin
Internship Co-ordinator
David was trained in the field of Commerce at the University of Melbourne before commencing work as an insurance broker. He began theological education in 1997 and in 1999 he was appointed as the student pastor of the Mitcham Baptist Church. In 2001 David began working for a shared pastorate between the Mordialloc and Clarinda Baptist Churches. He completed his theological studies at Whitley and was ordained by the Baptist Union of Victoria in 2002.
He has recently completed a Master’s Thesis in Church History on the sermons of the Baptist pastor, F W Boreham. David enjoys writing and has written a number of columns for the the Sunday ‘Age’ and the Baptist Witness. He is married to Melissa and they have three boys, James, Thomas and Benjamin.
Email: denticott@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Rev Jillian Stewart
MA, BD, TPTC
Co-ordinator of TransFormation Program
Jillian has been a student and a teacher in both Australia and India. She has been a secondary school teacher and a school chaplain. She is now pastor of the Auburn Baptist Church, a multicultural church which includes three congregations of diverse people groups.
Jillian has been the Co-ordinator of the TransFormation Program since its commencement in 2003.
She has active interests in gardening, music and theatre – and people. In 2007 she was the President of The Baptist Union of Victoria.
Email: jstewart@bigpond.net.au
Rev Roslyn Wright
BA, DipEd, GradDipOrgDev, MA (SpDir) MTS
Co-ordinator of Field Education
Prior to theological studies, Roslyn worked in a number of different areas; primary education, adult employment training, industrial chaplaincy, and spirituality. She was a founding member of Westgate Baptist Community, and worked on the joint pastoral team at North Carlton and Church of the Pilgrim before being called to pastoral leadership at Rosanna Baptist Church. Roslyn began studies in spirituality at the Heart of Life Spirituality Centre in 1994 and later joined their staff working as a supervisor, spiritual director and course facilitator. In 2008 she commenced studies towards a PhD. Roslyn is married to Patrick and between them they have four adult children.
Email: rwright@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Mrs Robin McComiskey
BA, DipEd, MDiv, GDIM, MB(IT), AALIA
Library Manager
Robin is a Joint Library Manager, sharing the job part-time with Lorraine. She worked as a school teacher prior to undertaking studies in librarianship. Along the way she has worked in academic libraries at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and RMIT University in Melbourne.
Email: rmccomiskey@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Ms Lorraine Mitchell
DipLib, BTheol
Library Manager
Lorraine studied Librarianship in Ballarat, and has worked in a variety of library and administrative roles. Starting out in a suburban municipal library, she soon moved to specialist libraries in Papua New Guinea and the Australian Government Analytical Laboratories. In 1986 she joined the ANZ Bank and managed an economics and finance corporate library until 2001. Lorraine completed her BTheol at Whitley in 2002 and joined the library staff part-time in 2005. She also works part-time as the administrator at Box Hill Baptist, and the Zadok Institute. Lorraine was a member of the Whitley College Council 2002-2004, and is a member of Mitcham Baptist Church.
Email: lmitchel@whitley.unimelb.edu.au
Visiting Faculty
Stacey Aslangul, BTheol
Steve Bradbury, MA (Hons), GradDipTeaching, MA (DevStuds)
Keith Clements, MA (Cam), MA (Oxon), BD, PhD
Darren Cronshaw, BA, DipEd, MLitt, AdvDipMin, BTh (Hons), TheolM
Lynne Dyer, BA, DipEd, GradDipEdPsych, BTheol, MEd (TESOL)
Carolyn Francis, BA (Hons)
David Fuller, BTh, MA (Theol)
Matt Glover, BSc (Hons), BTheol
David Horsey BTh, BAppSc, AdvDipMin, DipEd
Fiona Hill, BA, BTheol
Nathan Hunter, BA, BTheol (Hons)
Bill Leng, BEng (Hons), BD, MA (Hons)
Thorwald Lorenzen, BA, LTh, BD, ThM, Dr.theol
Nathan Nettleton, BTheol (Hons), MTheol
Bruce Newnham, BTheol, DipEdu, DipElectEng, MA (Theol), AdvDipMissiolStudies
Albert Peck, BTheol (Hons), AdvDipMin
Graham Roberts, BA (Accountancy), GradDipEd, BTheol (Hons)
Deborah Storie, BVSc, MSc, GradDipTheol
Geoff Webb, DipTeach, BEd, BD, DTheol
Val Webb, BA, BSc, PhD
David Wilson, LTh, BTh, MA, DMin, DD
Distinguished Professors:
Ken Manley, BA, DPhil
Bruce Rumbold, MSc, PhD, BD (Hons), PhD
Research Scholars:
Terry Falla, MA, PhD
Beryl Turner, BTh
