Greg Clarke

(B.A. Hons, PhD)

Greg is Director of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute and a founding director of the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney. His doctorate is in literature (University of Sydney) and his area of research interest is the intersections between literature and theology. Greg has lectured at the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and Moore Theological College. He lives in Botany with his wife Amelia and their three children.

Research Specialisations

• The influence of eschatology on culture
• The place of the Bible in intellectual pursuit
• Literary theory and its relationship to theology
• Biblical hermeneutics
• Postmodernism and ethics
• Modern authors: Patrick White, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats.
• Christianity and popular culture, especially music (U2, Nick Cave)

Publications

• Eschatology, Apocalypse and Modern Fiction: the Future of Patrick White (Ashgate Press, UK, forthcoming)
• 666 And All That: the Truth about the Future (Aquila Press, 2007)
• Is it Worth Believing? The Spiritual Challenge of The Da Vinci Code (Matthias Media, 2005)
  

Lecturing

• Worldview Survey: Christian and Philosophical Perspectives (MCSI 100/IN 301) 
• Literature and Theology (postgraduate unit)