CH013-812 - Issues in Australian Presbyterian Church History

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • church historyUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

12cps CH

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code CH756-4. Unit exclusions: CH759

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the issues faced by the Presbyterian Church in Australia in the course of its history

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship on the history of Australian Presbyterianism

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship and sources in investigating the history of Australian Presbyterianism 

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the history of Australian Presbyterianism

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Issues in Australian Presbyterian Church History’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

Issues

  1. Transplanting a church.
  2. Relating to a changing society.
  3. Relating to the state.
  4. Responding to challenges within.
  5. Seeking to Spread the Gospel.

Set Readings

D.W.A. Baker, Days of Wrath: A Life of John Dunmore Lang,  (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1985).

Peter  Barnes,  Theological  Controversies in the  Presbyterian  Church of  New  South  Wales,  1865-1915:  The  Rise of  Liberal  Evangelicalism,  (Lewiston:  Edwin  Mellen,  2008).

I. Breward, A History of the Churches in Australasia, (Oxford: University Press, 2001).

Paul F. Cooper & David Burke, Burning or Bushed: The Presbyterian Church of Australia 40 Years On, Sydney: Christ College, 2017

S. Emilsen, A Whiff of Heresy: Samuel Angus and the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, (Kensington: NSW University Press, 1991).

F. Engel, F., Australian Christians in Conflict and Unity, (Melbourne: Joint Board of Christian Education, 1984).

Robert Evans, Evangelism and Revivals in Australia, 1880 to 1914 (First Volume), (Hazelbrook, 2005).

John  Harris,  One  Blood: 200 Years of  Aboriginal  Encounter with  Christianity,  (Sutherland,  second edition,  1994).

M. Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood, (Sydney: Friends of Ferguson Library/CSAC, 2001).

Iain  Murray  (ed),  A  Day’s  March  Nearer  Home:  Autobiography of  J.  Graham  Miller,  (Edinburgh:  Banner of  Truth,  2010).

Sarah  Martin,  Davis  McCaughey:  A  Life,  (Sydney:  UNSW  Press,  2012).

S. Piggin, Evangelical Christianity in Australia: Spirit, Word and World, (Oxford University Press, 1996).

M. D. Prentis, The Scots in Australia, (Kensington: UNSW Press, 2008).

R. S. Ward, The Bush Still Burns, (Wantirna, 1989).

Edwards, Bill, ‘Reflections on Presbyterian Aboriginal Mission in Australia’ in Mark Hutchinson and Geoff Treloar (eds), This Gospel Shall be Preached, Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Sydney, 1998, pp.193-213.

Phillips, W., 'The Defence of Christian Belief in Australia 1875-1914: The Responses to Evolution and Higher Criticism' in Journal of Religious History, vol 9, no 4, 1977, pp.402-423.

________, 'Religious Response to Darwin in Australia in the Nineteenth Century' in Journal of Australian Studies, vol 26, May 1990, pp.37-51.

J.  S.  Udy, 'Australian  Negotiations  Towards  Union:  An  Historical  Survey,  1901-1977',  Church  Heritage,  no  1,  September  1978,  1-32.

C.  Uidam, 'Why the  Church  Union  Movement  Failed in  Australia,  1901-25',  Journal of  Religious  History,  vol.  13,  no  4,  1985,  393-410.

Cooper, P. F. & D. Burke (eds), Read in the Light: The 1901 Declaratory Statement of the Presbyterian Church of Australia (Sydney: Eider Books, 2019).