Stephen Burns

BA, MA, MLitt, PhD Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology
Phone:
02 8838 8926

Stephen Burns has lived in Australia and worked at UTC since 2007. He was born and raised in Cumbria, north-west England, and studied theology at the universities of Durham and Cambridge. He is a priest in the orders of the Church of England, has served parishes in the Diocese of Durham, and was formerly Tutor in Liturgy at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham.

Stephen is a Research Fellow in Charles Sturt University's Public and Contextual Theology Strategic Research Centre (see http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/ theology/pact). He works across the fourth area of the theological curriculum: most of his publications are in liturgical theology, whilst much of his current teaching is in pastoral theology. He is also an advisor to the Uniting Church in Australia's Assembly Working Group on Worship and book reviews editor of the Australian Journal of Liturgy.

Stephen co-ordinates courses in pastoral theology.

Research interests

Stephen works with a range of liturgical, practical and contextual theologies, enjoying the dynamics of their interaction. He is currently writing Pastoral Theology for Public Ministry, editing a festschrift for Richard Giles and co-editing a collection of feminist essays on public theology.

  • Publications


    Books

     

    Time (Renewing the Eucharist 5) (editor) (Noriwch: Canterbury Press, in press) 

     

    Prayer (Renewing the Eucharist 4) (editor) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, in press)

     

    Presiding Like a Woman (edited with Nicola Slee) (London: SPCK, in press)

     

    Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives (written with Michael N. Jagessar) (London: Equinox, in press)

     

    Christian Worship in Australia: Inculturating the Liturgical Tradition (edited with Anita Monro) (Strathfield: St Pauls, 2009)

     

    Table (Renewing the Eucharist 3) (editor) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009)

     

    Word (Renewing the Eucharist 2) (editor) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009)

     

    The Edge of God: New Liturgical Texts and Contexts in Conversation (edited with Nicola Slee and Michael N. Jagessar) (Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2008)

     

    Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour of Ann Loades (edited with Natalie K. Watson) (London: SCM Press, 2008)

     

    Journey (Renewing the Eucharist 1) (editor) (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2008) 

     

    Worship in Context: Liturgical Theology, Children and the City (Petrborough: Epworth Press, 2006)

     

    Liturgy (SCM Studyguide) (London: SCM Press, 2006)

     

    Booklets

     

    Embracing the Day: Exploring Daily Prayer (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006)

     

    Living the Thanksgiving: Exploring the Eucharist (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006)

     

    Immersed in Grace: Exploring Baptism (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2005)

     

    Welcoming Asylum Seekers (Cambridge: Grove Books, 2004)

     

    Journal articles and chapters (select)

     

    'Seminary or School? Theological Study and Personal Devotion', St Mark's Review (2009)

     

    'Worship, Mission and the Public Square', Australian Journal of Mission Studies (2009)

     

    ‘Liturgy and Justice’, International Journal of Public Theology (2009)


    ‘Presiding Like a Woman: Feminist Gestures for Christian Assembly’, Feminist Theology (2009)

     

    ‘Faithful Prayer on Parched Land: On Being Asked to Provide Liturgies for a Time of Drought’ (with Anita Monro), Uniting Church Studies (2008)


    ‘Heaven or Las Vegas? Engaging Liturgical Theology’, in Pete Ward, ed., Mass Culture: The Interface Between Eucharist and Mission (Oxford: BRF, 2008)


    ‘Grace Dances: Liturgy and Embodiment’ in Watson and Burns, eds, Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour of Ann Loades (London: SCM Press, 2008)


    ‘Hymns Old and New Through the Postcolonial Optic’ (with Michael N. Jagessar), in Jagessar, Slee and Burns, eds, The Edge of God: New Liturgical Texts and Contexts in Conversation (Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2008)


    ‘Liturgical Studies and Christian Worship: The Postcolonial Challenge’ (with Michael N. Jagessar), Black Theology: An International Journal (2007)


    ‘Mission-Shaped Worship’, Anvil 21 (2005)

     

    'Creating a Kingdom Scene', Epworth Review (2005)

     

    ‘Forgiveness in Challenging Circumstances’, in Fraser Watts and Elizabeth Gulliford, eds, Forgiveness in Context: Theology and Psychology in Creative Dialogue (London: Continuum, 2004)


Last modified by Renee Kelly on May 28, 2010
Stephen Burns, PaCT Scholar and Co-Ordinator of Pastoral Theology

Stephen Burns, PaCT Scholar and Co-Ordinator of Pastoral Theology