Andrew Dutney

Principal, Uniting College for Leadership and Theology
Professor, Flinders University School of Theology
Lecturer in Historical and Systematic Theology

President-elect, Uniting Church in Australia 

BA (Qld), Dip Ecum St (St Andrews), PhD (St Andrews), Grad Cert Ter Ed (Flinders), EdD (Flinders)

Tel: 08 8416 8431

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Teaching and Research

I teach systematic theology, Uniting Church studies, and ethics.  My recent research interests have been in
*    Theological education
*    Ethics
*    The Basis of Union of the Uniting Church
*    Public Theology
I have recently completed the Doctor of Education program at Flinders University, concentrating on different aspects theological education in the Uniting Church.

The Story So Far

I came to South Australia in 1989 to take up an appointment as lecturer in systematic theology at Parkin-Wesley College.  I was appointed as Principal of Parkin-Wesley College in 2001.  I came to Adelaide from Sydney, where I'd been the Uniting Church's chaplain to Sydney University and the minister of the Wesley College Chapel Parish.  For several years before that I had lived and worked in Scotland where I was a postgraduate student at the University of St Andrews and the assistant minister in a Church of Scotland parish in Leven, Fife.  I was ordained in that parish in Scotland.  But I am a Queenslander by birth. I was born in the RFDS Base Hospital in Charleville in 1958. After attending state primary schools in Charleville and Toowong, and Brisbane Boys' College for high school, I was educated at the University of Queensland and Trinity Theological College, Brisbane.    

I was the founding Director of the Centre for Theology, Science and Culture from 1999 until 2005.  I was the chairperson of the SA Council on Reproductive Technology from 1996 until 2005.  I'm a member of the Advisory Board of the Ethics Centre of South Australia and the chairperson of the research ethics committee of the Adelaide College of Divinity.

I am fortnightly guest on ABC Local Radio 891 "Mornings", leading talk-back conversations on spirituality, ethics and society.

I write a regular column in Australian Leadership, focussing on questions of public and practical theology that emerge through my involvement with the wider South Australian community.

I chair the Uniting Church's national Church Polity Reference Committee and I'm also a member of its Doctrine Working Group.

In July 2009 I was chosen to be the next President of the national Assemby of the Uniting Church in Australia.  I will be installed in that position in July 2012 and will serve full-time for three years.  In the meantime, as President-elect, I am learning all I can to help me be effective in that role - with the help of the President, the Ex-President and the General Secretary of the Assembly.  Mentoring is everything...really!

Selected Publications

 Introducing the Uniting Church in Australia (Sydney: The Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, 2008) 39pp

'A genuinely educated ministry: three studies on theological education in the Uniting Church in Australia (Adelaide: MediaCom, 2007) 205pp

"So different so quickly" The Impact of Church Union on the Ministry
(Adelaide: Uniting Church Historical Society, 2005) 12pp

The Seeker: Studies in Comparative and International Education Number 16
Edited by Sivakumar Alagumalai, Murray Thompson, James Anthony Gibbons and Andrew Dutney
(Adelaide: Flinders University Institute of International Education, 2004) 235 pp

Playing God:  Ethics and Faith
(Melbourne: HarperCollins, 2001) 194 pp

Where Did The Joy Come From?  Revisiting the Basis of Union
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 2001) 56 pp

Food, Sex & Death: A Personal Account of Christianity
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1993) 176 pp

From Here To Where? Australian Christians Owning the Past, Embracing the Future
Edited by Andrew Dutney
(Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education, 1988) 156 pp

Manifesto For Renewal: The Shaping of a New Church
(Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1986) 141 pp

"Religion, infertility and assisted reproductive technology"
Best practice and research. Clinical obstetrics and gynaecology. Vol 21 No 1 (2007) 169-180

"Hoping for the Best: Christian Theology of Hope in the Meaner Australia"
in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
Edited by Jaklin A. Eliott (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2004) pp. 49-60

"Theological Education and the Identity of the Uniting Church in Australia"
in The Seeker: Studies in Comparative and International Education Number 16
Edited by Sivakumar Alagumalai, Murray Thompson, James Anthony Gibbons and Andrew Dutney
(Adelaide: Flinders University Institute of International Education, 2004) pp. 179-186

"A Christian Case for Allowing the Destruction of Embryos in Stem Cell Research"
Interface Vol 7, No 2, October 2004, pp.95-100, Stem Cell Research and Cloning: Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity Edited by Gareth Jones and Mary Byrne (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2004)

"Does the Basis of Union call us to do justice?"
in Doing Justice: Stories of Hope from Everyday Believers Edited by Rosemary Hudson Miller and Nancy Victorin-Vangerud (Sydney: Uniting Church Press, 2003) pp.15-18

"Bioethics, Ecology and Theology"
in Earth Revealing - Earth Healing:  Ecology and Christian Theology Edited by Denis Edwards (Collegeville, Minnesota: A Michael Glazier Book, The Liturgical Press, 2001) pp 213-230

"Contraception"
in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought Edited by Adrian Hastings et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp 134-135

"Reproductive Technology"
in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought Edited by Adrian Hastings et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp 614-615

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Andrew appears fortnightly on ABC radio 891 in Adelaide on Mornings with Matthew Abraham and David Bevan (8.30-12.00).