Professor Peter Bolt
Director of Academic Strategy, Office of the Dean
ThL(ACT), DipA(Theol) (Moore College), BD (London), MTh (ACT), MA (Hons) (Macquarie), PhD (London)
Professor Peter G. Bolt has been with the Sydney College of Divinity since March 2016. He is the Director of the SCD Centre for Gospels & Acts Research and the Editor of the Journal of Gospels and Acts Research. A graduate of Moore College, Australian College of Theology, Macquarie University, and King’s College London, he is a New Testament scholar with research strengths in the Gospels and Acts, Biblical Theology, magic and demonology, and interests in eschatology, the earliest Christian missionary movement, and the intersection between the New Testament and the Graeco-Roman world.
Peter is the author of numerous scholarly publications, especially related to Mark’s Gospel, mission, and has a side-interest in the significant role of christian people in Australian colonial history. His ongoing research interests now centre on writing commentaries on several books of the New Testament and articles related to those commentaries.
For more than four decades Peter has served Christ’s world through christian ministry and mission and theological education. As Director of Academic Strategy, his role within the SCD is to enhance the development and delivery of academic programs so that our Member Institutions can continue to take their place in the Lord’s mission to the world.