Robert W Gribben
Major teaching areas:
- Liturgy
- Missiology
- Ecumenism
- Methodism
Research Interests:
- Current issues in liturgical texts, theology and celebration;
- liturgical history especially from the Reformation;
- church architecture;
- the liturgy and life of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, particularly in Australia.
Publications:
- ‘Catholic Spirit’, a sermon in Angela Shier-Jones & Kimberley Reisman (eds), Forty-Four Sermons to Serve the Present Age, Peterborough: Epworth, 2007.
- Chapter 1 in ‘Cranmer’s Ecumenical Legacy’, in Shared Treasures, Heidelberg: The Prayer Book Society in Australia (Victorian Branch) Inc., 2007.
- Book review: Herbert D. Mees, General Editor, A German Church in the Garden of God, Melbourne’s Trinity Lutheran Church 1853-2003, East Melbourne: Trinity German Lutheran Church, 2004, in Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 77, No. 2, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, November 2006.
- ‘The Prayer of Confession’, Epworth Review, 33/2, London, April 2006, 64-68.
- The Uniting Church in Australia’, Chapter 18 in Geoffrey Wainwright & Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (eds), The Oxford History of Christian Worship, Oxford: OUP, 2006.
- 'My Dear Sammy' - A Letter to an Unspiritual Nephew, article in Pacifica, October 2003
- 'Contemporary Worship: the New Cultural Cringe?', chapter in William W. Emilsen & John T. Squires (eds), Prayer and Thanksgiving, Essays in Honour of Rev. Dr Graham Hughes, Sydney: UTC Publications, 2003
- Living Stones - Theological guidelines for Uniting Church worship buildings, Melbourne: Uniting Church Synod of Victoria, 1997
- A Guide to Uniting in Worship, Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1990.
- Editor and contributor, Communion in Australian Churches, revised edition, Melbourne: VCC 1985.
Administration:
- President of the United Faculty of Theology 2005 - 2007
- Chair, Sugden Heritage Collections Committee, Queen’s College Library, 2005- present
- Centre for Ecumenical Studies, Chair of Board, 1997- present
- Practical Theology Department, UFT, Head, 2001- 2003
Community and Professional Service
- School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Fellow, 2002- present
- Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Fellow, 1991- present,
- Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Fellow, 2008 - present ; Member of Council 2003- present
- Add to Queen’s: (& insert: University of Melbourne after QC, as in Ormond reference) Fellow, 2008-present
- Chairman, Fred J. Cato Charitable Trust, 2008-
Major positions previously held:
- 2004 Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
- 2001 Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
- 1983-84 Tutor, Graduate School in Ecumenical Studies, World Council of Churches, Bossey, Switzerland.
- 1980-83 Ecumenical lecturer and Director of Extramural Studies, Lincoln Theological College, Lincoln UK
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