Professor Bart B. Bruehler is Director of Biblical Studies at the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in Adelaide, South Australia on the land of the Kaurna People. He accepted this role in 2024, having worked for over a decade prior at Indiana Wesleyan University (USA), serving there as Professor of New Testament and Chair of the University Scholarship Council.

Bart has a history of experience in unit design, program development, and assessment. He led a team of faculty and learning designers in the development and design of various religion/ministry courses and specific units with those programs. He chaired the inaugural assessment committee at IWU and helped design foundational documents and practices that shaped the assessment culture. Bart has also published in the arena of the scholarship of teaching and learning, exploring how various dynamics of modality and student experience effect the learning process in biblical studies classes.

Bart’s long term research interest in the books of Luke and Acts, working with the interdisciplinary tools of sociorhetorical interpretation. Bart has been a key team member of the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity group, co-chairing the committee for several years and currently co-chairing the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity Exploring Commentary Series, which features the sociorhetorical approach. He is writing the series volume on Luke. Bart’s multidisciplinary interests have led him to employ archaeology, spatiality, anthropology, embodied cognition, classical rhetoric, and affect theory in his published work on Luke and Acts.

Bart currently teaches a variety of courses in Biblical Studies with the Uniting College and has overseen research on the Gospels and Paul’s letters. He has been a guest preacher within the Uniting Church and serves as a consultant in the area of community mission within the church as well.

University Appointments

Lecturer of Biblical Studies (Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)