Bio:
Jason is Associate Professor of Theology at Whitley College. His pastoral ministry spans both Baptist and Uniting Church contexts (1993–2005), and he has extensive experience in theological education, having taught in Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (1997–). He is widely published on various subjects, including theological aesthetics, death, public theology, reformed traditions, secularity, ethics, and religion and theology in Australia. He is the author of Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (T&T Clark, 2013), and has edited Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth (Pickwick, 2013), Tikkun Olam – To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts (Pickwick, 2014), Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology (with Rod Pattenden; Pickwick, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award, and the T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is the co-convenor of the Bible and Visual Art Programme for SBL International, and an ordained minister with the Baptist Union of Victoria and the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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:
- ‘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, 149–66. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
- ‘Preface’. In T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation, edited by Jason A. Goroncy, xxiv–xxv. London: 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. Eugene: Pickwick, 2022, edited 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, 1–26. Eugene: 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, 220–50. Eugene: 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, 303–16. Chichester: Blackwell, 2020.
Units Currently Teaching:
- Beginning Theological Studies
- Being Human
- Capitalism and the Kingdom of God
- Church: The Quest for Christian Community
- Creation
- Death
- John Calvin: Thought and Legacy
- Suffering, Faith, and Theodicy
- The God of Fiction
- Theology and the Arts
- Theology, Poetry, and Imagination
- 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 studies
- P. T. Forsyth
- General areas of Christian thought, especially the doctrines of God and of creation