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tonkin Emeritus Professor John Tonkin

Professor Tonkin’s major area of specialisation is the European Reformation and his publications include The Church and the Secular Order in Reformation Thought (1971); The Reformation in Historical Thought (with A G Dickens 1985) and translations of three historical works from French into English.  In recent years he has turned his attention to the history of the Anglican Church in Western Australia and in 2001 published Cathedral and Community: A History of St George's Cathedral, Perth.  He is currently undertaking further research on the history of Anglicanism in Western Australia under an ARC grant.

 

 

wortham Emeritus Professor Chris Wortham

Dr Wortham’s publications include articles on Marlowe's Dr Faustus; Shakespeare's Othello, King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra; Milton's Paradise Lost; Marvell's Cromwell poems. His editions include the morality play, Everyman; Marlowe's Dr Faustus; Marvell's Poetry; Shakespeare: Readers, Audiences, Players ed. with R.S. White and C. Edelman; Renaissance in the South ed. with Tom Burvill.  His research interests include Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Medieval literature and Poetry. Professor Wortham’s current research (books): Shakespeare and the Matter of Britain; Shakespeare's Maps; Devotional Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.

 

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 The Very Reverend Dr John Shepherd

Dr Shepherd has degrees in Arts (History and Philosophy), and Theology from The University of Melbourne, where he studied at Trinity College, and the degree of Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York.  He lectured in modern composition and electronic composition at Hofstra University, New York. At St Catharine’s College Cambridge he completed a Ph.D. on the relationship between the theology and music of the English Reformation, and as Chaplain of Christ Church Oxford from 1980-88, taught Reformation Theology and Renaissance Music History. From 1988-90, Dr Shepherd was Chaplain at The University of Western Australia, where he also taught in the Faculty of Music. During his time as Dean of Perth, St George’s Cathedral has become noted for its innovative and exploratory theological teaching and popular preaching, its commitment to inter-faith worship, high musical standards, a Cathedral Education Centre unique to Australia, its involvement in the artistic, literary and sporting communities, and its engagement with the life of the City.

 
 

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