Bio:
Jason is Associate Professor of Theology at Whitley College, bringing over 25 years of experience in theological education across four countries: Australia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. His research and teaching span diverse areas, including theological aesthetics, public theology, ethics, reformed traditions, and religion in contemporary Australia.
Jason is a prolific scholar whose recent publications 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), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. His earlier works 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).
Jason also serves as co-convenor of the Bible and Visual Art Programme for the Society of Biblical Literature International.
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:
- “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