Bio:
Jason is Associate Professor of Theology at Whitley College, with experience in theological education across four countries: Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. His research brings Christian theology into conversation with the arts, public life, Reformed theology, and the diverse cultures of contemporary Australia and abroad.
He teaches and supervises projects in Christian doctrine, theological ethics, public theology, trauma theology, and theology and the arts, and welcomes enquiries from prospective research students working in these or related areas.
His recent books include the T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology (with Rod Pattenden; Pickwick, 2022). Earlier monographs and edited volumes include Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (T&T Clark, 2013), Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth (Pickwick, 2013), and Tikkun Olam – To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts (Pickwick, 2014).
He also co-convenes the Bible and Visual Art Programme for the Society of Biblical Literature International, fostering scholarship at the intersection of biblical studies, visual culture, and the arts.
Qualifications:
- PhD, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- ADipMin, Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia
- BTheol, Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia
- BEd, University of Melbourne, Australia
Recent Publications:
- “‘Sung, Not Signed’: James Denney on Confession, Unity, and the Freedom of the Gospel.” Religions 17, no. 7 (2026): 813. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17070813.
- “Capitalist Virtue Ethics Unmasked: A Case Study of ‘Success’ and Harm in Australia’s Finance Sector.” Zadok Papers 297 (2026): 1–16. With John Bottomley and Brendan Byrne.”
- “Redeeming History: A Response to Murray Rae’s Resurrection and Renewal.“ Journal of Theological Interpretation 20, no. 1 (2026): 130–37.
- “Attention, Sign-making, and the Tragic: On the Indexing of Ecological Icons in the Work of Harry Nankin.” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 38 (2025): 4–41.
- “On Being Called to Attention ‘After the Gods have Departed.'” Gesher 9 (2025): 68–70.
- “Ah, universe, don’t blank stare me like that”: A Review of Paul Mitchell’s High Spirits. TEXT 29, no. 2 (2025): 68–73.
- “The Heresy of Nicaea and the Jesus of Colony.” In Receiving Nicaea Today: Global Voices from Reformed Perspectives, edited by Hanns Lessing and Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2025. With John G. Flett.
- “Attention in Harry Nankin’s Photography Practice: Assisting Nature to Write Itself.” In Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding, edited by Lexi Eikelboom and David Newheiser. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- “Christ as Strange(r): The Elusiveness of Jesus in the Work of Nick Cave and Julie Dowling.” In Seeing Christ in Australia Since 1850, edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Sean Winter. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. Bloomsbury, 2024.
- “Preface.” In T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation, edited by Jason A. Goroncy. Bloomsbury, 2024.
- “Dying Without a Script: Some Theological Reflections on Voluntary Assisted Dying.” Zadok Papers S267 (2023): 5–10.
- Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology. Pickwick, 2022. With Rod Pattenden.
- “Daring Imagination.” In Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology, edited by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden. Pickwick, 2022.
- “‘My past has thrown me out’: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Plays in an Age of Trauma.” In Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology, edited by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden. Pickwick, 2022.
- “‘Live Bread for the Starved Folk’: Some Perspectives on Holy Communion.” Ecclesiology 18, no. 1 (2022): 57–77.
- “The Powers of Death: Recognition, Resistance, Resurrection.” Jurnal Jaffray 19, no. 1 (2021): 1–26.
- “Creation, God, and the Coronavirus.” Theology 123, no. 5 (2020): 346–52. With Mark G. Brett.
- “Race and Christianity in Australia.” Post-Christendom Studies 4 (2019–2020): 25–74.
- “Christ’s Body, the Church’s Supper, and the Real Presence in Social Distance.” Stimulus 27, no. 1 (2020): 1–5.
- “Sanctification.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, edited by George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson. Blackwell, 2020.
Units Currently Teaching:
- Beginning Theological Studies
- Being Human
- Church: The Quest for Christian Community
- Creation
- Death
- John Calvin: Thought and Legacy
- Suffering, Faith, and Theodicy
- Theology and the Arts
- Who is Jesus?
- Writing Well
Research Areas/ Preferred Areas of Supervision:
- Theological anthropology
- Theology and the arts
- Theological ethics
- Public theology
- Reformed traditions
- Death
- Trauma theology
- P. T. Forsyth
- General areas of Christian thought, especially the doctrines of God and of creation