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Revd Professor William R. G. Loader BA (Auckl) BD (Otago) Dr theol (Mainz, Germany) FAHA

Research Professor at Murdoch University, with a five year Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship to work on the project: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era.  

New Books

• The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Sectarian and Related Literature at Qumran (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009)

• Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes Towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)

• The New Testament - with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to its Writings and Themes
  (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)

• Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005)

• The Septuagint, Sexuality and the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)

• Jesus' Attitude towards the Law (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002)

• Jesus and the Fundamentalism of his Day (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)

On line books and study materials:
Earth, Air, Fire, Water - Studies in Sustainability
Dear Kim, This is what I believe: Explaining Christian Faith Today. revised and expanded.
Some chapters now appearing in French: Parlons de Dieu; Parlons de Jésus; Parlons d'être chrétien.
The Christmas Stories - exploring their background and meaning
Being the Church Then and Now: Issues from the Acts of the Apostles. 5 studies

New Articles and Papers:
Approaching the Bible on Issues of Homosexuality and Leadership
Biblical Perspectives on Homosexuality and Leadership
Finding Faith in Fact and Fiction: Making Sense of the New Testament while Maintaining our Integrity and the Integrity of the Text.
Approaching the New Testament as Source of Faith and Witness to Faith
Does the Cross mean "No"? Further Reflection on Christians and Other Faiths; Other Faiths: A New Testament Perspective; Two articles on Baptism: The Kiss of Baptism and Baptism in Context;
Approaches to Scripture: Considering the Options; (also in French: Quatre manières de lire la bible)
and a Response by Dr Suzanne Boorer.
"Companions and Competitors" - and Context? on John P. Meier's, Marginal Jew: Vol 3;
Simple Choices? on John Dominic Crossan's, The Birth of Christianity.

Ongoing Lectionary Resources   'First Thoughts' on Gospel Passages from the Lectionary

New Reflective Writings
An Order of Worship for Good Friday
Litany for the Day of Mourning for the Victorian Bush Fires (Australia)
Australia's Day of Apology to the Stolen Generations of its Indigenous Peoples, 13 February 2008
The Zacchaeus Tree - A Reflection; Dawn - A Reflection; Sacred Mountains - for Transfiguration and Reflective Occasions;  
Baptism, Water, and our World a reflection on baptism  -  more in Reflective Writings

email w.loader@murdoch.edu.au
Last updated 19 June 2009