Campion College Australia

Faculty Member, Theology & Philosophy

Other Affiliations: Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Theology

About

Matthew John Paul Tan received his doctorate in Political Theology at the Australian Catholic University in 2010. His doctoral thesis was entitled "Body of Christ in Seas of Change: The Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Politics and Practice in the Conditioning of 20th Century Roman Catholic Responses to Violence".

His doctoral study follows his undergraduate and honours studies in Law, International Relations and History at the University of Queensland, as well as in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he was a Russell Berrie Fellow in Interreligious Studies.

He has lectured in Introductory Theology, Biblical Studies, Postgraduate Christian Social Ethics and has taught courses in Introductory International Relations, Political Ideologies, Ethnic Conflict, Terrorism and Russian History.

He has also published works in both theology and International Relations, and has given conference and discussion group presentations in Australia and Italy.

In July 2011, he took up the position of Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy at Campion College.

His main research interests focus on integrating Christian missiology and Ecclesiology with cultural and political theory. He has written on worship and political change,  the politics of "reading the signs of the times" and the politics of evangelisation. He is currently working on two projects, one on the redemption of cyborgified culture and another linking prayer with the production of ecclesial social sites.

He also runs the blog "The Divine Wedgie".

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