Steven Ogden, BA, BD, MThSt, PhD

Steven is a HDR supervisor and sessional lecturer at St Barnabas College, University of Divinity. Steven completed a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University, a Bachelor of Divinity at the Melbourne College of Divinity, as well as a Master of Theological Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy at Flinders University. His doctoral thesis examined the development of a postmodern, post-metaphysical Christology using the work of Karl Rahner and Paul Tillich.

Steven is interested in systematic theology, radical theology, and political philosophy. He has a particular interest in the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Reiner Schürmann. He is a member of the North American Foucault Circle and the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy.

Steven is parish priest at St Mary Magdalene’s Anglican church in Adelaide. Previously, he was the Dean of St Peter’s Cathedral Adelaide (2000-2008), and Principal of St Francis Theological College Brisbane (2009-2016).

Steven’s latest book is Violence, Entitlement, and Politics: A Theology on Transforming the Subject (Routledge, 2022), which is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender-based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement.

University Appointments

Sessional Lecturer (St Barnabas College)
HDR Supervisor (School of Graduate Research)