Professor Marguerite (Maggie) Kappelhoff

Provost - Office of the Dean
AdvDipSW (Red Deer College), DipMin (Riverview Bible College), BTh (Bib) (Tabor College), BTh (Hons) (Charles Sturt/ St Mark’s Theological Centre), PhD (Charles Sturt/ St Mark’s Theological Centre)

Prof. Maggie Kappelhoff joined the Sydney College of Divinity as its Executive Dean in January 2022 and promoted to Provost in 2024. She holds a PhD in systematic theology from Charles Sturt University and St Marks National Theological Centre in Canberra, and other qualifications in Theology, Social Work and Higher Education. In addition, she is currently studying a Master of Business Administration at Southern Cross University.


Maggie has over seven years of experience in higher education academic leadership, governance
and management including curriculum design/review, student support, scholarship and research,
academic quality assurance, compliance and academic systems management. Before coming to SCD,
Maggie worked at the University of Divinity in various roles including Dean of Academic Programs,
Director of Academic Services and Academic Quality Manager. Prior to that she also held roles at the
Jesuit College of Spirituality (Academic Dean and Research Coordinator) and Australian College of
Ministries (Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Spiritual Formation Program Coordinator).

Her work at the Sydney College of Divinity includes working collaboratively as a member of the senior
management team leading and implementing strategic initiatives, with a special interest in the
development and maintenance of good governance systems.

Publications
Books
  • 2024

    Cronshaw, D., Taylor, S., and Kappelhoff M. Transforming Work: Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World, M., eds

    Leiden: Brill

Chapters
  • 2024

    Kappelhoff M. 'The Triune God and the Marks of the Church'. In Crisp, O. and Sanders, F. (2024) Confessing the church: Explorations in constructive dogmatics.

    Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic.

  • 2022

    Kappelhoff M. 'Common Ground: The Gift of Womanist Theology in the Midst of the #MeToo era'. In Rebekah Pryor and Stephen Burns (eds), Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures

    Lexington Fortress Press, Decolonizing Theology Series

  • 2021

    Kappelhoff M. ‘Theology of Work: Eschatology, Co-Creativity and the Pneumatological Impetus’. In Dave Benson, Kara Martin, and Andrew Sloane (eds), Transforming Vocation: Connecting Theology, Church, and the Workplace for a Flourishing Words

    Wipf & Stock, ACT Monograph Series

  • 2017

    Kappelhoff M. ‘The Marks of the Church: A Paradigm for the Twenty-First-Century Church’. In Chapman M. (ed), Hope in the Ecumenical Future: Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue

    Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Forthcoming
  • 'Colonialism and the Challenge of Reclaiming the ‘Marks of the Church’ in “According to All”: Catholicity in Postcolonial Perspectives

    Lexington Fortress Press