Dr. Stuart Piggin
Stuart Piggin is Director of CTE. He is a graduate of the universities of Sydney and London and of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He lectured in Religious History at the Universities of Wollongong and Sydney from 1974 to 1990. He was Master of Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University, from 1990 to 2004 and Founding Director of the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute. He is interested in the nature of spiritual experience and of religious revival, the history of the church, and the human impact of natural and man-made disasters. He has written over 100 articles for academic journals and seven books, including The Mount Kembla Disaster (1992) and Evangelical Christianity in Australia (1996), both published by Oxford University Press, and Firestorm of the Lord (2000), a study of revival, published by Paternoster Press. The highly-acclaimed, but long out of print, Evangelical Christianity in Australia was reprinted by Strand Publishing as Spirit of a Nation. Stuart lectures in early and modern church history for the School of Christian Studies at Robert Menzies College and in MCSI 211/311 Knowing and Experiencing God: An Introduction to Christian Spirituality for the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute.