Dorothy Lee (theologian)

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Dorothy Ann Lee

Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, a college of the University of Divinity, and continuing as Frank Woods Distinguished Professor of New Testament. Her main research interests include the narrative and theology of the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, spirituality in the New Testament, the Transfiguration
and Anglican worship.

Early life

Lee was born in Scotland. Her father was a

Presbyterian minister and her childhood was shared between the United Kingdom and Australia. She studied classics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, graduating BA (Hons) in 1975 before completing a BD (Hons) in 1984 and a PhD in 1991 at the University of Sydney. She was ordained as a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1984 before being received into the Anglican Church of Australia in 2008.[1]

Academic career

Between 1983 and 1989, Lee lectured in New Testament at the

Queen's College (University of Melbourne). After becoming an Anglican, Lee was appointed as lecturer at the Trinity College Theological School in 2008, becoming its dean in 2011.[2]

Lee has acted as president of the Fellowship for Biblical Studies and is a member of the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia. She also holds an adjunct title of senior fellow in classics in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.[3]

In October 2012, Lee was elected one of the 10 foundation professors of the MCD University of Divinity, Australia's first specialist university.

canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.[5] She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2015.[6]

Lee was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to the Anglican Church of Australia".[7]

Lee is the sister of Australian composer Ruth Lee Martin.

Selected works

Books

  • Lee, Dorothy A. (1994). The Symbolic Narratives of the Fourth Gospel: The Interplay of Form and Meaning. Journal for the Study of the New Testament., Supplement Series. Vol. 95. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
    OCLC 850888432
    .
  • ——— (2002). Flesh and Glory: Symbol, Gender and Theology in the Gospel of John. New York: Crossroad.
  • ——— (2011). Hallowed in Truth and Love: Spirituality in the Johannine Literature. Melbourne: Mosaic Press.
  • ——— (2021). The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.

Articles and chapters

References

  1. ^ "Trinity College Staff Directory". Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. ^ The Australian Anglican Directory 2012 (Oak Park, Vic.: Publishing Solutions, 2012), p. 288.
  3. ^ Fellows of the Classics and Archaeology program Archived 9 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "MCD University of Divinity Appoints its First Professors" Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 1 June 2013
  5. ^ "New Canons for St Paul's" Archived 22 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine [electronic news item] (accessed 22 Oct. 2014).
  6. ^ "Fellows – Dorothy Lee". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  7. ^ "The Reverend Canon Professor Dorothy Ann Lee". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
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