Rev. Dr Sean Gilbert is Director of Pastoral Theology & Ministry Practice at Uniting College where he has been a faculty member for 11 years. Before that he was in congregational ministry for over twenty years serving as a Minister of the Word with the Uniting Church in Australia. His lived integration of pastoral ministry and pastoral theology informs his approach to teaching, engendering a genuine sense of encouragement and care for his students yet without lessening the need for academic rigour.

Formative in his own educational journey was a Masters’ program (and research thesis) he completed while living and studying in Boston, USA as well as his more recently awarded PhD through Flinders University, SA in which he explored the close relationship between spiritual affections and the pastoral disposition.

University Appointments

Director of Pastoral Theology & Ministry Practice (Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)