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Current PhD students

Aminta Arrington

PhD topic: Christ as Mearcstapa: The Border Stalking of Jesus of Nazareth in Luke’s Gospel Account
Supervisor: Professor Trebilco, Dr James Harding

Tema Alailima-Eteuati

PhD topic: Re-establishing History: An Indigenous View on the Arrival of Methodism in Samoa
Supervisor: Professor David Tombs and Professor Michael Reilly

W H Chong

PhD topic: “Spaces Matter: Learning from the Text Delimitations of Early NT MSS containing Ephesians and 1 Peter”
Supervisors: Professor Paul Trebilco and Dr Katie Marcar

Christopher Douglas-Huriwai

PhD topic: Te Oro Atua: Taonga Puoro and the Indigenisation of the Liturgy
Supervisors: Reverend Dr Wayne Te Kaawa and Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole

Taryn Dryfhout

PhD topic: Locating Whāngai Within a Theology of Community
Supervisor: Professor Murray Rae, Dr Greg Liston

Fenika Faalave

PhD topic: Examining Luke's Characterisation of the Human Characters in the Dream-Visions in Acts
Supervisor: Professor Paul Trebilco, Professor Christopher Holmes

Robert Fakafu

PhD topic: The Forau model: The Diaspora experiences of a relocated people in the face of climate change with special reference to the Polynesian people of Tikopia, Solomon Islands
Supervisors: Professor David Tombs, Dr Andrew Shepherd

Aaron Geddis

PhD topic: Jesus' Temple action in the Gospel of Matthew: The climax of Malachi's return of Elijah motif
Supervisor: Professor Paul Trebilico and Associate Professor James Harding

Emma Gray

PhD topic: The formative relationship between the Eucharist and other practices of hospitality via Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Shepherd, Professor David Tombs, Dr Graham Redding

Ethan Harrison

PhD topic: Divine Aseity
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Holmes, Professor Murray Rae

Caroline Jewkes

PhD topic: Examination of Pākehā narrative to provide insight into Tiriti partnership for a Christian organisation
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae, Dr Wayne Te Kaawa, Dr Lynne Taylor

Tamsyn Kereopa

PhD topic: A Wahine Maori Theology of Liberation
Supervisor: Professor David Tombs, Dr Jenny Te Paa Daniel (Peace & Conflict Studies), Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

Richard Kerr-Bell

PhD topic: A Māori History of the Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand
Supervisors: Dr Wayne Te Kaawa, Professor Murray Rae

Immanuel Koks

PhD topic: How People with Disabilities Participate in Trinitarian Hope
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae, Professor John Swinton

Lance Lukin

PhD topic: Theological Impacts of Adoption
Supervisors: Dr Lynne Taylor and Reverend Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

Ross McComish

PhD topic: Partial Accounts: Herbert Marsh and the formation of the Cambridge Auxiliary Bible Society, 1811-1814
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae, Dr John Roxborough, Dr Kevin Ward

Robert Montgomery

PhD topic: Clinal and partitional patterns of grammar, vocabulary and imagery in the interpretation of the Bible in Tongan, Maori and English
Supervisor: Professor Murray Rae

Tamara Owyoung

PhD topic: Sonship as Salvation: a filial model of atonement
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae, Professor Chris Holmes

Neihana Reihana

PhD Topic: Kei taku hoa aroha: the impact of Christian mission to William Colenso and Māori in 1842-1852
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae and Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

Te Hira Paenga

PhD Topic: Towards a model of Theology in Māori Performing Arts (Kapahaka) Te Atuatanga Me Te Kapahaka
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae and Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai

Jaimee Poole

PhD Topic: Ontological Freedom in the Theological Tradition and Existentialist Philosophy
Supervisors: Professor Murray Ray, Dr Christa McKirland

Philip Sampson

PhD topic: Christ In Our Place: Atonement in Aotearoa
Supervisors: Professor Murray Rae, Dr Andrew Shepherd

Jonathan Seiuli

PhD topic: Submission to the Governing Authorities: Re-examining Authority from God in Romans 13: 1–7
Supervisors: Professor Paul Trebilco, Professor David Tombs

Chanki Shin

PhD topic: A Study of Paul's Anomalous Fatherhood in 1 Corinthians 4.14–21 in Light of the Sociopolitical Context of Greco-Roman and Jewish Fatherhood During the Second Temple Period
Supervisors: Professor Paul Trebilco, Dr Katie Marcar

Timothy Stanton

PhD topic: “He Willed to Communicate Himself Ad Extra”: God and Creation in Conversation with Francis Turretin and Petrus van Mastricht
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Holmes and Professor Tim Cooper

Herry Susanto

PhD topic: Pauline Cosmological Redemption as the Basis for Eco-Theology
Supervisors: Professor Paul Trebilco, Professor David Tombs

Michael Tamihere

PhD topic:Matakite, Tohunga, Ariki / Prophet, Priest, and Paramount Chief: Toward a Māori Ecclesiology
Supervisor: Reverend Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

Joshua Taylor

PhD topic: Speaking of Sin in 21st Century Aotearoa
Supervisor: Dr Lynne Taylor, Dr Graham Redding

Jacqueline Tuffnell

PhD topic: What part does advocacy play in the healthcare chaplain's role? How do and how might healthcare chaplains practice as 'agents of challenge'?
Supervisor: Dr Lynne Taylor

Current MTheol students

Andrew Duncanson

MTheol topic: A Historical Inquiry into the Baptism of Jesus  
Supervisor: Professor Paul Trebilco

Pane Kawhia

MTheol topic: An exploration of the Christian faith of Sir Apirana Ngata through an examination of his whakatauākī (proverb) 'e tipu e rea' and its influence on Ngāti Porou iwi Christianity.
Supervisor: Rev Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

Julie O’Toole

MTheol topic: “Put on the new man”: an examination of the conversion experience of the Apostle Paul
Supervisor: Professor Paul Trebilco

Zhane Tahau-Whelan

MTheol topic: An examination of the theology foundations of Ngāti Kahungunu iwi Christianity
Supervisor: Rev Dr Wayne Te Kaawa

David Whitaker

MTheol topic: Christians in Aotearoa
Supervisor: Dr Lynne Taylor

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