The image is of the Pohutukawa tree from where I grew up. The longer I am away from it, the more I miss it.
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A good number of the below publications are available for download here: ResearchGate
Monographs
A Companion to Missiology, Eugene, OR; Cascade, 2023. Under Contract.
With Henning Wrogemann, Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020.
Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.
The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth, and the Nature of Christian Community.Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.
Edited works
With Dorottya Nagy, T&T Clark Handbook to Intercultural Theology and Mission Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2024. Under Contract
‘For I was hungry…’: Congregations and Church Agencies in Relationship. Melbourne, VIC: Uniting Academic Press, 2022.
With David W. Congdon, Converting Witness: Theology for a Pilgrim People. Minneapolis, MN: Lexington Books-Fortress Academic, 2019.
Collision Crossroads: The Intersection of Modern Western Culture with the Christian Gospel. Auckland: The DeepSight Trust, 1998.
Research Articles
“‘The Heavens Declare…’ (Psalm 14:1, 19:1): Creation, Mission, and the Embodied Knowing of God,” in The T&T Clark Handbook to the Doctrine of Creation, edited by Jason Goroncy, London: T&T Clark, 2023. Forthcoming.
“The Non-elect Bear the Salvation of the Elect: The Living History of Election,” in The T&T Clark Handbook to Election, edited by Edwin Chr. van Driel, London: T&T Clark, 2023. Forthcoming.
Flett, John G. “The Ever Newness of the Gospel: Difference as Catholicity.” In According to All? Postcolonial Perspectives on Catholicity, edited by Stephen Burns, and Bryan Cones, Lanham, MD: Lexington Fortress Press, 2023. Forthcoming.
“Plotting an Oceanic Voice: A Longitudinal Review and Analysis of Regional Theologising,” Colloquium 54, no.1 (2022): 5-60.
“Introduction: Differentiation, the Secularised Church, and Mission,” in ‘For I Was Hungry…’: Congregations and Church Agencies in Relationship, edited by John G. Flett, 11–27. Melbourne: Uniting Academic Press, 2022.
“Evil, Demons, and Exorcism,” Cursor_ Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologie 6 (2022). https://cursor.pubpub.org/pub/issue6-daemonen-flett
“Missio Dei: The Livingness of God and Christian Existence in the Resurrection,” 미션네트워크 9 (2021): 15–41.
“(Any?) New Approaches in the Theology of Mission,” Verkündigung und Forschung 66, no. 2 (2021): 104–19.
“Natural Theology and the Different Bodies of the Christian Gospel: Part 2: History, the Resurrected Jesus Christ and the Living Spirit,”Melanesian Journal of Theology 37 (2021): 3–20.
“Natural Theology and the Different Bodies of the Christian Gospel: Part 1: What Is the Problem for Which Natural Theology Seems a Solution,” Melanesian Journal of Theology 36 (2020): 3–32.
“Multiculturalism as Theology and Policy: The Challenges and Future Possibilities,” in Theological and Hermeneutical Explorations from Australia: Horizons of Contextuality, edited by Jione Havea, 55–68. Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020.
With David W. Congdon, “Darrell L. Guder: A Life of Continuing Conversion,” in Converting Witness: Theology for a Pilgrim People, edited by John G. Flett, and David W. Congdon, 1–16. Minneapolis, MN: Lexington Books–Fortress Academic, 2019.
“Method in Mission Studies: Comparing World Christianity and Intercultural Theology,” Theologische Literaturzeitung 143 (2018): 717–31.
“Prayer and Missionary Movement Beyond the Self,” Spiritus 18 (2018): 246–59.
“Versammlung, Auferbauung und Sendung der christlichen Gemeinde: Die Ekklesiologie in Karl Barths Versöhnungslehre,” in Karl Barth als Lehrer der Versöhnung (1950–1968): Vertiefung – Öffnung – Hoffnung, edited by Michael Trowitzsch, Michael Beintker, and Georg Plasger, 117–37. Zürich: TVZ, 2016.
“Contextualisation and Human Rights Law: A Future Area of Contest?,” in Living in the Family of Jesus: Critical Contextualization in the Melanesia and Beyond, edited by William Kenny Longgar, and Tim Meadowcroft, 371–94. Auckland: Archer Press, 2016.
“What Does it Mean for a Congregation to be a Hermeneutic?,” in The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century, edited by Scott Sunquist and Amos Yong, 195–214. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2015.
“A Theology of Missio Dei,” Theology in Scotland 21, no. 1 (2014): 69–78.
“Justification contra Mission: The Isolation of Justification in the History of Reconciliation,” Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie Supplement Series 6 (2014): 58–80.
“‘Who is Jesus Christ?’: The Necessary Missionary Form of the Confession of the Trinity,” in Theology in Missionary Perspective: Lesslie Newbigin’s Legacy, edited by Mark T. B. Laing, and Paul Weston, 260–76. Oregon, WA: Pickwick Publications, 2012.
Bishop J. E. Lesslie Newbigin and the Missionary Challenge to Doctrinal ‘Identity’,” in Reformierte Theologie weltweit: Zwölf Profile aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Marco Hofheinz and Matthias Zeindler, 150–69. Zürich: TVZ, 2012.
“Failure in Intercultural Hermeneutics: A Case Study,” in Theologie in Freiheit und Verbindlichkeit: Profile der Kirchlichen Hochschule Wuppertal / Bethel, edited by Henning Wrogemann, 225–42. Neukirchener Verlag: Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2012.
“’Jesus Christ is…the Gentiles are Fellow Heirs of the Promise’ (Eph. 3:1-6): Toward a Christological Rationale for a Living History of Cross-Cultural Community,” in Glauben leben – vielfältig, international, interkulturell Migrationsgemeinden und deutsche Gemeinden auf dem Weg, 11–22. Hannover: Haus kirchlicher Dienste der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, 2012.
“The Resurrection from the Dead as the Declaration of God’s Eternal Being and the Christian Community’s Eschatological Reality,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin 31 (2010): 7–26.
“The Bastard in the Royal Family: Wither Mission?,” Princeton Theological Review 16, no.1 (2010): 17–30.
“A Critical Response to ‘Fullness of Life: Search for a New Vision of Ecumenical Mission Thinking and Practice in the 21st Century,’ by Jooseop Keum,” in Centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference: Retrospect and Prospect of Mission and Evangelism, edited by Kook-Il Han, 188–93. Seoul: PCTS, 2009.
“Communion as Propaganda: Reinhard Hütter and the Missionary Witness of the ‘Church as Public’,” Scottish Journal of Theology 62, no.4 (2009): 457–76.
“Missio Dei: A Trinitarian Envisioning of a non-Trinitarian theme,” Missiology 37, no.1 (2009): 6–17.
“In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: A Critical Reflection on the Trinitarian Theologies of Religion of S. Mark Heim and Gavin D’Costa,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 10, no. 1 (2008): 73–90.
“Yocum’s ‘Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth’,” Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie 20, no. 1 (2005): 147–51.
“From Jerusalem to Oxford: Mission as the Foundation and Goal of Ecumenical Social Thought,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27, no. 1 (2003): 17–22.
“Alasdair Macintyre’s Tradition-Constituted Enquiry in Polanyian Perspective,” Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 24, no. 2 (1999): 6–21.
“Unpacking Gospel & Culture,” in Collision Crossroads: The Intersection of Modern Western Culture with the Christian Gospel, edited by J. Flett, 8–14. Auckland: The DeepSight Trust, 1998.
Lectures
“Missio Dei: The Livingness of God and Christian Existence in the Resurrection,” Missio Dei and Missional Church conference in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Juan International University, Incheon, South Korea, December 4, 2021.
“The Ever Newness of the Gospel: Difference as Catholicity,” Inaugural Professional Lecture, Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne, May 18, 2021.
“Diaspora and Reconciliation,” Bi-annual conference of The Council on Overseas Korean Churches for Education & Ministry, Han Bit, Melbourne, February 18, 2020.
“How Do We Theologise Our Pre-Christian Heritages? A Problem of Time and Embodiment,” Theology and Ethics Seminar, Divinity School, University of Edinburgh, January 29, 2020.
Keynote lectures at the Melanesian Association of Theological Schools annual conference on Natural Theology, Christian Leaders Training College, Mt Hagen, PNG, July 2-4, 2019: “I. What is the Problem for which Natural Theology Seems a Solution?”; “II. Natural Theology and Intercultural Violence: A Case Study of the 1930s German Missionary Approach to Natural Theology”; “III. History, Resurrected Jesus Christ and the Living Spirit.”
“Prayer and the Missionary Movement Beyond the Self,” Pray Without Ceasing: Perspectives in Spirituality Studies, University of Zurich, June 26-29, 2017.
Co-organiser and presenter, Karl Barth’s Pneumatology and the Global Pentecostal Movement, 2016 Annual Karl Barth Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, June 9-22, 2016.
“Apostolicity and Conversion,” International Association of Mission Studies Quadrennial Conference, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Seoul, August 12-15, 2016.
“What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?” Still Pluralist: 25th Anniversary of J. E. Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Fuller Theological Seminary, 13-15 November, 2014.
“Versammlung, Auferbauung und Sendung der christlichen Gemeinde – Die Ekklesiologie in Karl Barths Versöhnungslehre,”Karl Barth als Lehrer der Versöhnung (1950 – 1968): Vertiefung – Öffnung – Hoffnung, Internationales Symposion in der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden, 1-4 May, 2014.
“The Theology of missio Dei,” Day-conference on Mission and Church, Divinity School, University of Edinburgh, 10 May, 2013.
“The ‘Moratorium on Missions’ and Baptism, Eucharistic and Ministry: A Comparison,” South African Mission Society Congress, Stellenbosch University, 12-15 March, 2013.
“World and Church in ‘World Christianity’,” ‘Kirche’ und ‘Welt’: Innertheologische Umbauten im Verhältnis von Religion und Politik in internationalen Kontexten, Bochum Universität, 3-5 December, 2012.
“Justification contra Mission: The Isolation of Justification in the History of Reconciliation,” 6th Princeton-Kampen Barth Consultation, 2-5 September, 2012.
Arbeitsgruppen Leitung, 43 Internationale Karl Barth Tagung: Mission Impossible: Kirche Mission, Pluralität der Religionen nach Karl Barth, Leuenberg, Schweiz, 16-19 July, 2012.
“‘Jesus Christ is…the Gentiles are Fellow Heirs of the Promise’ (Eph. 3:1-6): Toward a Christological Rationale for a Living History of Cross-Cultural Community,” Glauben leben – vielfältig, international, interkulturell, Migrantionsgemeinden und deutsche Gemeinden auf dem Weg, Evangelische Akademe Loccum, 1-3 March, 2012
“Bishop Lesslie Newbigin and the Missionary Question of Reformed Identity,” Reformierte Identität in globalen Kontexten. Theologische Porträts aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, Bern Universität, 4 April, 2011.
“How Mission Got Left Out of Systematic Theology and How to Put It Back,” 44th International Ecumenical Seminar 2010: Mission and Ecumenism in the Global Village: 100 Years after the Conference of Edinburgh, Ecumenical Institute Strasbourg, July, 2010.
“‘I am the Resurrection and the Life’ (John 11:25): The Resurrection from the Dead as the Declaration of God’s Eternal Being and the Christian Community’s Eschatological Reality,” ‘The Church is as Such A Missionary Church’: Barth as a ‘Missional’ Theologian. Princeton Theological Seminary, 20-23 June, 2010.
“Missio Dei: A Trinitarian Envisioning of a non-Trinitarian Theme,” Envisioning Apostolic Theology: As the Father Sends…, American Society of Missiology Annual Conference, Techny, 20-22 June, 2008.
“The Living God and the Reconciled Life: On the Absence of ‘creatura verbi divini’ from Social Trinitarian Ecclesiologies,” 17th Annual Theology Conference: Rediscovering the Trinity: Classic Doctrine and Contemporary Ministry, Wheaton College, 10-12 April, 2008.
