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In July 2005 I took up a five year fulltime Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship to conduct research on Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era.
I have recently completed two books in the area of sexuality
Other recent books include: my study on Jesus' Attitude towards the Law as it is portrayed in the Gospels, which has been published as
My current research interests include, apart from sexuality in the New Testament and its world, the pre-Markan anecdotes and the historical Jesus, Jesus in cross-cultural perspective and Johannine studies, the LXX and its theological influence in the New Testament.
I am also interested in writing that communicates research to a wider public. Books include:
It uses the research which lies behind my Jesus' Attitude towards the Law (above) and explores many of the issues which arise from it in a style more suitable for the general reading public. It is the kind of book which could be useful in discussions on the place of the Bible in the church - always current!
See also my Dear Kim, This is what I believe: explaining Christian Faith Today (Melbourne: Uniting Ed, 1993; now in revised form on this website).
and The Christmas Stories (Melbourne: JBCE, 1986) now in revised and extended form on this website)
More information is available in my list of published books, articles and book chapters.
I am currently supervising PhD research in the areas of Acts 10 and feed laws; Sexuality and Sirach; The Uniting Church and Homosexuality; John's Gospel and Ethics.
I completed my BA in classics at Auckland University in 1966 and my ministerial education at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, 1964-1967. In 1968 I completed a BD from Otago University. I gained the degree Dr theol from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, in 1972 with a dissertation supervised by Professor Dr Ferdinand Hahn, and published in revised form in 1981: Sohn und Hoherpriester. Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Christologie des Hebräerbriefes, WMANT 53 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1981).
From 1978 to 2005 I was Testament Lecturer with the Perth Theological Hall of the Uniting Church in Australia and in recvent years Principal. Since 1986 I have also been teaching at Murdoch University, and since 1994 was employed by both the Church and the University in complementary fractional appointments. Until 2005 I was Professor of New Testament at Murdoch university and 1998-2003 I was Head of the School of Social Inquiry. I am now an Australian Research Council professorial Fellow at Murdoch Universityl
I am a member of the
I was Editor of Colloquium The Australian and New Theological Review. A Journal of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Theological Studies, 1996-2005
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email address: w.loader@murdoch.edu.au