Paul Barnett (bishop) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Paul Barnett
Bishop of North Sydney
Church:Anglican Church of Australia
Province:Province of New South Wales
Diocese:Diocese of Sydney
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Term:1990–2001
Predecessor:Donald Cameron
Successor:Glenn Davies
Ordination:1965
Consecration:1 May 1990
Consecrated By:Donald Robinson
Birth Name:Paul William Barnett
Birth Date:23 September 1935
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Nationality:Australian
Religion:Anglicanism
Spouse:Anita
Children:4
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Paul William Barnett (born 23 September 1935)[1] is an Australian Anglican bishop, ancient historian and New Testament scholar.[2] He was the Bishop of North Sydney from 1990 to 2001. He is a prominent historical writer on the rise of Christianity and the historical Jesus. He is currently a fellow in ancient history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and a teaching fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.

Background

Barnett holds a Master of Arts (MA Hons) from the University of Sydney, a Licentiate in Theology (ThL) from the Australian College of Theology, a Bachelor of Divinity (BD Hons) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD; London) on the interaction between the New Testament and Jewish history of the first century. His dissertation at the University of London was titled "The Jewish eschatalogical prophets A.D. 40-70 in their theological and political setting". "[He is] now a teaching fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, [and] is a respected classicist and historian."[3]

Barnett was ordained in 1965[4] and ministered at St Barnabas' Broadway in Sydney and Holy Trinity Church in North Terrace, Adelaide before becoming the master of Robert Menzies College at Macquarie University from 1980. He was later the chairman of the New Documents Illustrating early Christianity project which is now in its 10th volume. The ninth volume was dedicated to Barnett and contains an introduction on his impact on New Testament ancient history by Edwin Judge.[5] He is married to Anita Barnett.[6] He has 4 children and 11 grandchildren.

Barnett was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Bibliography

External Resources

Talks delivered at Moore Theological College

Notes and References

  1. [Who's Who]
  2. Among others he has written Is the New Testament History? (1986), The Message of 2 Corinthians (1988), Bethlehem to Patmos (1989), The Two Faces of Jesus (1990), Jesus and the Logic of History (1997), Birth of Christianity (2005) and Paul, Missionary of Jesus > British Library website accessed 15:58 GMT 21 February 2011
  3. Book: Paul W. Barnett . IVP . 31 December 2022.
  4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory|Crockford’s]
  5. S.R. Llewelyn (ed.), New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, Vol 9
  6. http://justus.anglican.org/resources/misc/angcommuniondirectory.html Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000