Paul William Barnett -
Anglican Bishop of North Sydney       

MA Hons (Sydney),
Th L Th  Schol (ACT),
BD Hons, PhD (London).      

Personal
Born
in Narromine NSW, 1935, to William and Edna May Barnett.

Father deceased 1937.

Married
Anita Janet Mary Simpson 1963

Children     

David (born 1965; married 1989);  
Peter (born 1967; married 1995);  
Anne (born 1970; married 1993);  
Sarah (born 1972; married 1995).

1952  Matriculated Gosford High School;

1953-7    Graduated Associate of Sydney Technical College   (Quantity Surveying)

1960-3 Moore Theological College

1962  Licentiate in Theology -ThL  (Hey Sharp Prize - 1st in Australia)

1963  Bachelor of Divinity Hons (University of London)

1965  Scholar in Theology - Th. Schol.

1965-7 University of Sydney   (Classical Greek I,II,III; Ancient History I,II,III).

1968 University of Sydney   (History IV Hons as qualifier for MA Hons candidate - HD level)

1969-73 University of Sydney MA Hons by Thesis   ("Civil Disturbances in Judaea 4BC - AD 66").

1975-78 University of London (external student)  

PhD   ("The Jewish Eschatological Prophets - in their Theological and Political Setting.")

1953-7 Cadet Quantity Surveyor

1958-9 Qualified Quantity Surveyor

1960-3  Student Moore College

1964-7 Lecturer Moore Theological College

1964  Hon. Sunday Curate, St Matthew's Ashbury

1965-7 Hon. Sunday Curate, St Barnabas Broadway

1967-73 Rector St Barnabas Broadway and Chaplain to University of Sydney

1967-73 Part Time Lecturer Moore Theological College

1970-73 Part Time Director of the Inner City Areas of Sydney

1973-79 Rector Holy Trinity Adelaide, South Australia

1977 President Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students

1973-79 Part Time Lecturer, Adelaide Bible Institute

1980-90 Master Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University

1981 Founding Editor Christian Belief Series (Hodder and Stoughton)

1980-90 Founder and senior minister of Macquarie University Church

1980-90 Founder of School of Christian Studies

1980-     Part Time Lecturer Moore Theological College

1980-6   Part Time Lecturer Macquarie University (History Departmentt) with
undergraduate courses, Master's courses and supervision of MA and PhD students

1980- Chairman Macquarie University Committees for Bulletin New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity and for Moulton and Milligan replacement lexicon.

1985- Chairman Doctrine Commission, Diocese of Sydney.

1987- Visiting Fellow in History, Macquarie University

1982-90 Examining Chaplain for Archbishop of Sydney

1982- Part time Lecturer University of Sydney (Greek Dept)

1983-6 Head of Old & New Testament Section, Divinity Faculty, University of Sydney.

1987  Visiting Professor Regent College (2nd Semester)

1989-90 Chaplain Macquarie University

1989  Biblelands Tour Lecturer Biblical sites of Greece and Turkey.

1991  Visiting Professor, Regent College (Summer School)

1993  Visiting Professor, Regent College  (Winter School)

1994  Visiting Professor, Regent College  (Summer School)

1995  Research Professor, Regent College.

1990 -2001 Bishop of North Sydney

1990 - 2001 Trustee Moore Theological College

1995  Biblelands Tour Lecturer Biblical sites of Greece, Israel and Turkey.

1996  Kingham Fellow, Oak Hill College, London.

1997  Biblelands Tour Lecturer Biblical sites of Egypt, Jordan,  Israel and Greece,

1999  Biblelands Tour Lecturer Biblical sites of  Jordan, Israel  Turkey.

"Paul's Preaching Reconsidered", Interchange, 2/2 1969

"Church and Denomination", Interchange, 12 1972

"Baptism in the Holy Spirit", Interchange, 13 1973

"Apographe and apographesthai in Luke 2", Expos. Times, 1974

"Under Tiberius All was Quiet", NTS, 21 1974

"Who were the BIASTAI  (Mt 11) ?" RTR 1977

"The Jewish Sign Prophets", NTS, 27 1981

"Opposition in Corinth", JSNT 22 1984

"The Feeding of the Multitude Mark 6/John 6" Gospel Perspectives 6, 1986

"Agrippa the Elder and early Christianity",  God Who is Rich in Mercy,1986

"Polemical Parallelism: Some further Reflections on the Apocalypse", JSNT 35 1989

"Wives and Womens' Ministry" (1 Tim 2:11-15), EQ LXI/3  1989.

"Revelation in its Roman Setting" RTR (1991).

"Mark: Story and History" in In the Fullness of Time (ed. D. Peterson and J. Pryor) (Lancer, Sydney:1992)

"The Importance of Paul for Jesus," Crux (1993).

"Bishop Spong, the Apostle Paul and Resurrection of Jesus," Crux (1994)

"Doing Theology for the Corinthians," Doing Theology for the People of God eds D. Lewis and A. McGrath (IVP 1996)

"Jesus and the Logic of History," Crux March 1997 xxx/1.

"Jesus and the Logic of History," RTR April 1998, 22-35

"Christian Community and the Gospel," in Grace and Truth in the Secular Age ed T. Bradshaw (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

"Why Paul Wrote Second Corinthians,"  in Ancient History in a Modern University Volume 2 Early Christianity: Late Antiquity and Beyond edited by T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley, C.E.V. Nixon and A.M. Nobbs (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

"Jewish Mission in the Era of the NT and the Apostle Paul," in F/S PT O¹Brien ed. P. Bolt and M. Thompson (Sydney: 00, 00).

Books

Is the New Testament History?,  Hodder and Stoughton, 1986

The Message of 2 Corinthians BST, IVP, 1988

Bethlehem to Patmos, Hodder and Stoughton, 1989

Apocalypse Now and Then, Reading Revelation Today - Aquila, 1989

The Two Faces of Jesus, Hodder and Stoughton, 1990

The Servant King,  Reading Mark Today -  Aquila, 1991.

The Truth About Jesus Aquila, 1994

Truth and Reality: The Resurrection of Jesus (with D. Petersen and P. Jensen) Aquila, 1994.

Commentary on Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians NIC Eerdmans, 1997.

Jesus and the Logic of History IVP (UK), 1997.

Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity 1999