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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 Alphacrucis University College. He recently completed a Graduate Certificate of Research Methods with distinction, with a thesis titled A Pneumatological Re-evaluation of Chronomorphic Eschatologies through Agamben's 'Messianic Time' and Jervis's 'Life-Time'.

His research explores theological accounts of time, particularly how temporality shapes Christian eschatology, ethical imagination, and ecclesial practice. Drawing on Pauline theology, contemporary continental philosophy, and pneumatological methodology, Josh's work engages questions of power, formation, and lived Christian time.

Josh is an ordained minister in the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) with over a decade of pastoral ministry experience, and he remains deeply interested in the intersection of theological scholarship, ministry practice, and contemporary culture.

Qualifications

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

GradCert.R.M. (University of Divinity, Melbourne), A Pneumatological Re-evaluation of Chronomorphic Eschatologies through Agamben’s “messianic time” and Jervis’s “Life-Time.” – 2026

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 A., J. Newington, D. Van Vuuren, F. Girardi (2025). The Theology of Power in Contemporary Pentecostal Church Leadership in Australia and New Zealand. Practical Theology,  1-22. | External link
  • Internal and External Grants

  • 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

  • Book Reviews

  • Engagement Publications

    Popular Articles
    • 2016
      • Newington, J. (2016). You Are What You Eat. Luke's Journal of Christian Medicine and Dentistry, 20:2. | External link
  • Professional Memberships

  • 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)
  • Projects