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Ps Joshua Newington

Associate Lecturer in Ministry; Coordinator of Professional Practice

Biography

Josh Newington is an Associate Lecturer in Ministry and Coordinator of Professional Practice at AC. He is currently completing postgraduate research on temporality in the thought of Giorgio Agamben and the apostle Paul, interpreted through a pneumatological lens. The research explores the way time shapes theological imagination, ethics, and ecclesial life.

Josh is an ordained minister in the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) with more than a decade of pastoral experience.

Qualifications

M.A. (University of Divinity, Melbourne), Profaning the Sacrament: The Bread of Life and the Industrial Food Complex – 2014

GradCert.R.M. (current) (University of Divinity, Melbourne), Messianic Time and Pneumatological Imagination: A Comparative Theology of Temporality – 2025

Grad. Dip. CS. (Regent College, Vancouver) – 2012

Grad. Dip. Ed. (QUT, Brisbane.) – 2008

B.A. (Griffith University, Brisbane.) – 2007

  • Research Publications

    Journal Articles

    • 2025
      • Dodds, Newington, Van Vuuren & Girardi (2025). The Theology of Power in Contemporary Pentecostal Church Leadership in Australia and New Zealand (pending). , .
  • Scholarship

    Presentations

    • 2024
      • (with Dodds, A. & Van Vuuren, D.) The Theology of Power in Contemporary Pentecostal Church Leadership in Australia and New Zealand (2024), European Society of Pentecostal Studies/Pentecostal Identities: Theologies, Practices and Spiritualities, Online, France., 16 Jul 2024
    • 2021
      • Peacemaking in the context of Education (2021), Sacred Space, Northside Christian College, Brisbane, Australia, 05 Mar 2021
    • 2018
      • Being Sent Home (2018), Theology on Tap, Brisbane, Australia, 03 Apr 2018

  • Teaching

  • Supervision

    • Completed
      • 2023
        • Shane Meyer-Holt, Third-order Suffering and the Breakdown of Dependent Care Relations: The Challenge of Neoliberalism to Fostering Christian Communities of Care (Masters Project/Thesis)
        • Delmar King, Foucault’s Dialectical Equivocity: A Desmondean Metaphysical Analysis of Foucault’s Genealogical Method. (Masters Project/Thesis)