Reverend Professor Vicky Balabanski is a New Testament scholar at the University of Divinity and serves as the Principal of Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in Adelaide. Vicky is an ordained Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church. She’s an accomplished academic, with expertise in the Synoptic Gospels, John’s Gospel, Colossians, Receptive Ecumenism, and particularly, Ecological Hermeneutics. She is the General Editor of the Earth Bible series, collaborating with Professor Gerald West in South Africa; the series emphasizes interpreting Scripture in harmony with the Earth, the interconnected web of life. Her Earth Bible commentary, “Colossians: An Eco-Stoic reading” (Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2020), draws on Stoic philosophy to enrich ecological interpretations.

Prof. Balabanski is a sought-after conference speaker, and international keynotes include World Diakonia conference 2001 and 2021 and the UCA President’s Conference in Fiji, 2019, and the Christian Conference of Asia (2023). She has accepted invitations to teach in Thailand and India, including an intensive at McGilvary College of Divinity in Chiang Mai (2009) and as visiting scholar in the Diocese of Madras (2012). She received a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University (1988), and has worked as a visiting scholar in Heidelberg, Germany (2000).

Prof. Balabanski was elected into membership of the international Society of Biblical Studies (SNTS) in 2017.

University Appointments

Principal (Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)
EO/Principal (Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)