Linda Burridge

Linda Burridge

Registrar 

BSc (Hons.) (Adelaide), DipEd (Secondary) (Murdoch), Lay Preacher’s Cert (Trinity), JP Qual (QLD) 

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Contact Details

📞 07 3514 7403 

📞 07 3514 7424

✉️ registrar@ministryeducation.org.au

✉️ lburridge@ministryeducation.org.au 

Profile 

Linda is the registrar at St Francis College. Her primary role includes responsibility for student administration, enrolment, student records, student conduct and student services.

Linda’s work supports all students of the college, including those in Formation. 

Prior to beginning at St Francis College in 2018, Linda was a molecular biologist undertaking medical research in areas including childhood kidney cancer, virology and parasitology. As a secondary school teacher, she taught mathematics and science in schools both in Australia and overseas.

Linda enjoys spending time with her family and friends. She also enjoys orienteering and playing the clarinet in the Brisbane Municipal Concert Band. She volunteers at the RSPCA Wildlife Hospital and is a registered Wildlife Carer.  

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Peter Kline

Assoc. Prof. Peter Kline

Research Co-ordinator & Lecturer in Theology

PhD (Vanderbilt University), MDiv (Princeton Theological Seminary), MTh (University of Edinburgh), BA (Wheaton College)

Contact Details

📞 07 3514 7418

✉️ pkline@ministryeducation.org.au

Profile

Peter Kline is the Research Co-ordinator at St Francis College and Lecturer in Systematic Theology. He represents St Francis College to the Charles Sturt University of Theology. Peter completed his PhD in 2016. Before joining St Francis College as a lecturer, he taught theology at Vanderbilt University and Fuller Theological Seminary. 

When not teaching, studying and writing, Peter enjoys painting, yoga, baseball and time at home with his wife, Janice, his son, Leo, and his stepchildren Jesse and Penelope.

Publications

Scholarly Monograph

Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, September 2017.

Journal Articles

“God is Blackness: Mysticism of the Unowned Earth,” Abolition: A Journal of Radical Theory and Practice, 2022.

“Blurred Theology: On the Colour Black,” St Marks Review, 2019 (249), p. 115-127.

“Imaging Nothing: Kierkegaard and the Imago Dei,” Anglican Theological Review, vol. 100 no. 4, Fall 2018

“Absolute Action: Divine Hiddenness in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling,” Modern Theology, vol. 28 no. 3, July 2012.

“Participation in God and the Nature of Christian Community: Robert Jenson and Eberhard Jüngel,” International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 13 no. 1, January 2011.

Book Chapters

“Christ without the Phallus,” in Speaking of Christa, SCM, 2022.

“Against Innocence: Feminism and Original Sin,” Interstices & Fractures: (Re)Visions of Feminist Theologies, Decolonizing Theology Series, Lexington Fortress Press, eds. Stephen Burns and Rebekah Pryor, 2021.

“Becoming Flesh,” Afterlives: Jesus in a Global Perspective, The Westar Studies Series, ed. Gregory Jenks, Wipf & Stock, 2021.

“Infinite Reduplication: Kierkegaard’s Negative Concept of God,” in Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy, eds. Nahum Brown and J. Aaron Simmons. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017

“’You Wonder Where The Spirit Went’: Barth and Jenson on the Hiddenness of God,” in Barth in Conversation, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014.

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Adam Couchman

Dr Adam Couchman

Academic Dean & Lecturer in Theology

PhD (University of Divinity), MA (Theology), BTh (Hons)

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Contact Details

📞 07 3514 7420

✉️ adam.couchman@anglicanchurchsq.org.au

Profile

Adam Couchman is the Academic Dean at St Francis College and is a lecturer. He has recently been awarded his PhD where he investigated Jesus as a worshipper in the light of the creeds.

Adam’s studies have included research into the sacramentality of the ceremonies of The Salvation Army, the theological anthropology of Gregory of Nyssa, and Christian holiness. Adam’s undergraduate degree was completed through the Sydney College of Divinity, his Honours through Charles Sturt University, and his MA with Distinction was awarded by the University of Manchester.

Adam has taught previously in the areas of Worship and Theology. He enjoys seeing students deepen in their faith and for this to have an impact on their ministry and personal spirituality. A student recently shared with Adam; “At first, I was afraid of taking your class, but you made learning more understandable than I imagined.”

Adam was also an Officer in The Salvation Army for seventeen years and was the Registrar at Yarra Theological Union. 

Adam’s research areas are Christology, Trinity, Worship, Liturgy, Historical Theology, Holiness and Sanctification.

Publications

2023 In the image of the Image: Gregory of Nyssa's Opposition to Slavery

2022 The Healing Power of the Liturgy

2021 "Not My Will But Yours Be Done": The Use of the Mercy Seat in Theodramatic Perspective

Affiliations

• Australian Consultation on Liturgy (Secretary)

• Societas Liturgica (Member)

• Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research (Member)

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Jonathan Holland

Bishop Jonathan Holland

Sessional Lecturer in Mission and Ministry (Liturgy)

PhD (UQ), Master of Arts (UQ), Oxford Cert Theology, BA (Oxon), BA (Hons) (UWA)

Contact Details

📞 07 3514 7400

✉️ jonathan.c.holland@anglicanchurchsq.org.au

Profile

Ordained in 1982, Jonathan has served the Anglican Church of Australia as a priest in parishes in Perth, Sydney and Brisbane until 2006 when he became Assistant Bishop in Brisbane.

Jonathan Holland is the former Principal of St Francis College, Brisbane, and former Executive Director of the Anglican Church Southern Queensland’s Ministry Education Commission. Jonathan was appointed to St Francis College in 2016. He lectures in Mission and Ministry (Liturgy). Jonathan believes theological studies ground faith in a deeper and richer understanding of God, helping to bring faith more alive and deepen the union with Christ.

Jonathan enjoys reading, gardening, walking and a bit of wood working as well as research and writing. He has been married to Kerry since 1980, and they delight in their three adult children and spouses and four grand-children.   

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Publications

The Destiny & Passion of Philip Nigel Warrington Strong, (Lakeside Publishing, 2019).

Anglicans, Trams and Paw Paws: the story of the diocese of Brisbane 1945-1980, (Copy Right Publishing, 2013)

Jesus Unbound: the story of Jesus of Nazareth (Acorn, 2008)

Eyes’ Delight: six paintings and their theological meanings, (privately published, 1998)

Mark: my words, co-editor of reflections on Mark’s Gospel as a Lenten book. (St James publishing, 1988)

‘Encountering God in Christ’ in Encountering God: face to face with the Divine, ed. Nigel Leaves (Morning Star Publishing, 2014)

‘Let God Arise: the training of clergy in Queensland’, in Brisbane: Training, Teaching and Turmoil: tertiary education 1825-2018, eds. Bill Metcalf and Barry Shaw, (Brisbane History Group, 2018)

Ruth Mathieson

Reverend Dr Ruth Mathieson

Executive Director & Principal

PhD (Charles Sturt), MTh (Charles Sturt), B.Th. (Hons) (Flinders), DipPS (ACD), Grad Dip Ed (SACAE), BSc (Hons) (Adelaide)

Contact Details

📞 07 3514 7401

✉️ ruth.mathieson@anglicanchurchsq.org.au

✉️ executivedirector@ministryeducation.org.au

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Profile

Ruth began as Principal of St Francis College in July 2022, following 10 years of sessional teaching of New Testament subjects at St Barnabas College and 25 years of ordained ministry in parishes and schools in the Diocese of Adelaide.

Ruth’s research interest is in socio-rhetorical and postcolonial interpretation of biblical text, especially the Gospel of Matthew.  She has enjoyed giving presentations and leading bible studies at clergy conferences in the Dioceses of Adelaide, Southern Queensland and Grafton, and appreciates the opportunity to preach in a variety of parishes of the Diocese. New to the Anglican Church Southern Queensland, Ruth is enjoying living in Brisbane and exploring the region.  

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Academic Conference Presentations

2023 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), November, San Antonio.
Matthew’s reconfiguration of (Subcultural) Sectarian Rhetoric 

2023 Fellowship of Biblical Studies (FBS), September, Sydney.
Seeking (the meaning of) the missing wedding garment in Matt 22:11-13: A History of Interpretation of ἔνδυμα γάμου

2023 Society of Biblical Literature International (SBLI), July, Pretoria, South Africa.
Exploring the royal command to “bind hands and feet” in Matthew 22:13 as an allusion to the work of the Archangel Raphael restraining evil beings in Tobit 8:3 (GII) and 1 Enoch 10:4. 

2021 Sydney College of Divinity Gospel and Acts Research Centre Conference 

2019 Sydney College of Divinity Gospel and Acts Research Centre Conference. 

2018 Fellowship for Biblical Studies (FBS), Sydney.

2017 Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS), Adelaide.

2016 Fellowship for Biblical Studies (FBS), Melbourne.

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Publications

2023 Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast: A Sociorhetorical Interpretation. Emory Studies in Early Christianity Volume 26. Published by SBL Press, Atlanta, US.

2013 “Ruth and Naomi.” Pages 17–33 in Pieces of Ease and Grace, edited by Alan Cadwallader, published by Australian Theological Forum Press, South Australia.

2012 “Anglican schools as mission-shaped communities of faith.” Pages 271–88 in Ministry in Anglican Schools: Principles and Practicalities, edited by Tom Frame, published by Barton Books, Canberra, Australia.