Darren Marks
William Acres
Gary Badcock
Gordon Hamilton
Faculty News, Honours, & Awards
Dr. Bill Acres has completed The Burghley Letters for the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and is working on the completion of a monograph "Officers and Stations: The Creation of Military Culture in Late-Elizabethan England, 1579-1603; and has begun work on Images and Ideology: Religious and Secular Nationalism in Europe, 1600-1870. He has also been working with others on the creation of a computational database program for the mapping of knowledge networks in historical communities, for which the group has received a New Research and Scholarly Initiatives Major Award from UWO and SSHRC. He is giving papers this year in Paris, Granada, Chicago, and at UWO (Law and Governance in England, 1350-1800). Among other recent work, he has authored several articles and a forthcoming book on Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Robert Cecil and "Britain," 1588-1603. A member of several Diocesan committees, he is organizing a conference for 2008 associated with the Diocese of Huron's 150th anniversary.
Office & phone extension: V134, ext. 608
Email: wacres@uwo.ca
Interim Director of Field Education and Co-ordinator of Formation for Ordained Ministry.
Office & phone extension: A218, ext. 251
Email: kander82@uwo.ca
Gary studied philosophy at Memorial University and theology at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at the Universities of Aberdeen (1991-92) and Edinburgh (1993-99), and at Huron since 1999. His teaching spans the areas of Christine doctrine, philosophical theology, and ethics. In addition to a series of shorter essays in these fields, Gary has written Light of Truth and Fire of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit, and The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation. He has also recently completed an ecclenology under the title, "The House Where God Lives." He lives in London with his wife, Susan and two daughters, Hannah and Mairi.
Office & phone extension: A219, ext. 288
Email: gbadcock@uwo.ca
William Danaher is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. He received the A.B. from Brown University (1988), the M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary (1994), and the M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2001, 2002). Prior to coming to Huron, he served as Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The General Theological Seminary (New York City, NY) and Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) from 2000-2006.
Office & phone extension: A225, ext. 289
Email: wdanaher@uwo.ca
Director of Jubilee Program for Spiritual Formation & Development
Jubilee Program website
Email: mfrey@sentex.ca
Born and raised in Vancouver, Gord Hamilton attended Brown University (B.A., Religious Studies), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Visiting Student), Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S., Old and New Testaments), and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations). He came to Huron from the University of Calgary in 1988. He has an abiding research interest in any Canaanite or Hebrew inscriptions relating to the Old Testament. His research on the origins of alphabetic writing has taken him to museums in Egypt, Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Gord teaches Biblical Hebrew and critical methods of interpreting the Old Testament, focussing on parts of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, and Isaiah, and undergraduate and graduate courses on the Dead Sea Scrolls. As an active Roman Catholic lay person, he also has a passion for Jewish-Christian and inter-Christian relations.
Office & phone extension: A221, ext. 258
Email: gjhamilton01@hotmail.com
Lecturer 2010-11, Liturgics
Office & phone extension: A216, ext. 292
Email: amcgre@uwo.ca
William Lupton is organist and director of chapel music at Huron and organist and choirmaster at St. John the Evangelist, Strathroy. He is National President of the Royal School of Church Music Canada and Administrator for the RSCM Singing Awards.
Office & phone extension: A2b, ext. 335
Email: blupton@uwo.ca
Dr. Darren C. Marks holds degrees in science and theology from the University of Toronto and advanced degrees in theology from the University of Oxford. He has also studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat (Bonn) under Prof. Dr. G. Sauter. He is the author of over a dozen articles in systematic theology and the author/editor of several texts in theology. His primary research area is contemporary systematic theology, although his doctoral work dealt with nineteenth-century German Protestant theology. Dr. Marks is currently the North American Review Editor for the Journal of Anglican Studies and has forthcoming works on Global Theology and his Justifying God: A Theology of Sin.
Office & phone extension: A319b, ext. 279
Email: dmarks@uwo.ca
Brad Morrison is an ordained minister serving Grace United Church in Sarnia. A registered marriage and family therapist (AAMFT clinical member), he studied pastoral care and counselling, congregational dynamics, and marriage and family therapy at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Brad chairs the Institute for Specialized Ministries, which organizes the annual CanLead youth ministry training forum.
Office & phone extension: A319a, ext. c/o 289
Email: bmorri49@uwo.ca
Jo Ann also teaches Biblical Studies in the Lay Certificate Program. A practising psychiatrist for some 40 years, Jo Ann's passion lies in seeing the whole of the human story--spiritual, psychological, social and physical--behind both patient presentations and the literary works which comprise the Hebrew and Christian Testaments in their original languages and cultures. Jo Ann is currently an active member of the United Church of Canada.
Email: c/o srice@uwo.ca
Dan Smith teaches in the areas of biblical Greek, biblical exegesis, the Synoptic Gospels, the letters of Paul, and apocalyptic literature. Areas of research interest include the Sayings Gospel Q, Life of Jesus Research, and Christian Origins. Dan is the author of several articles published in scholarly journals (including Theological Studies, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, and Novum Testamentum), and also of the monograph The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q, (London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2007). He is currently working on a book entitled Revisiting the Empty Tomb: Narrative and Theological Developments in the Empty Tomb Stories. Dan and his family live in London and are members of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Office & phone extension: A218, ext. 287
Email: dsmith89@uwo.ca
Director of Ask & Imagine
Ask & Imagine Program website
Email: steers@interlog.com
John Thorp studied at Upper Canada College, at Trent University, and at Oxford. His first academic appointment was at the University of Ottawa, where he was chair of the Classics department. In 1992, he moved to UWO, where he has been chair of the Philosophy department. His research bears mostly on ancient and late antique thought, chiefly on Aristotle and on his neoplatonic interpreters, though he has also written on the free will problem and its intersection with neurophysiology. In 2003, he was awarded UWO's Pleva Award for excellence in teaching. The Government of France has made him Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes academiques. He is President of the Canadian Philosophical Association. John is currently an active member of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Office & phone extension: TC437 (at UWO), (519) 661-2111, ext. 85767
Email: jthorp@uwo.ca
Todd also serves as Rector of St. Aidan's Anglican Church, London. His current research is focused on "the sacramentality of preaching"--the relationship between liturgical preaching and sacramental grace. Related interests include: the theological interpretation of Scripture, preaching and doctrine, contemporary homiletical theory, and theologies of grace. Todd has served in parish ministry since his ordination in 1992.
Office & phone extension: A319b, ext. 289
Email: ttownshe@uwo.ca
Ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland, Alistair has taught New Testament studies in universities in Scotland, Africa, and America as well as at Huron. He is a member of the Society for New Testament Studies and has collaborated in the International Greek New Testament Project.
Email: gweir@uwo.ca
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