Dr Stuart Piggin

Director of the Centre for the History of Christian Thought and Experience, at Macquarie University, New South Wales.

Associate Professor, Chairman of the Australia's Christian Heritage National Forum.

Author of 'Spirit of a Nation: The Story of Australia's Christian Heritage'.

Associate Professor Stuart Piggin is Director of the Centre for the History of Christian Thought and Experience at Macquarie University.

He lectured in Religious History at the Universities of Wollongong and Sydney from 1974 to 1990 and was Master of Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University, from 1990 to 2004. He is the Founding Director of the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute which seeks to integrate faith, life and work, and for whom he teaches courses on Spirituality. He is the Chairman of the Australia’s Christian Heritage National Forum which held its first forum here in Parliament House in August 2006.

Stuart is interested in the contribution of Christianity to nation building, the nature of spiritual experience and of religious revival and personal and communal transformation, and the human impact of natural and man-made disasters.

He has written over 100 articles for academic journals and seven books, including The Mount Kembla Disaster (1992) and Evangelical Christianity in Australia (1996), both published by Oxford University Press, and Firestorm of the Lord (2000), a study of revival, published by Paternoster Press. The highly-acclaimed, but long out of print, Evangelical Christianity in Australia was reprinted by Strand Publishing as Spirit of a Nation. Stuart lectures in early and modern church history for the School of Christian Studies at Robert Menzies College and in MCSI 211/311 Knowing and Experiencing God: An Introduction to Christian Spirituality for the Macquarie Christian Studies Institute. Also see his work on Local Revivals in Australia.

Stuart is married to Rosemary, a medico, has two married daughters and a grandson, is a fanatical supporter of the Sydney Swans, and believes that we’ll all be playing AFL in heaven.

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Copies of Dr Piggin's talk are available for download, however, we will be offering a better quality recording later. The sound is not good on the recording below, but the speech is clear. Email simona@simtek.com.au if you would like to be contacted regarding the availability of the alternate recording.

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