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Michael Bräutigam

Acting Co-Executive Principal

MEET Michael

Michael Bräutigam studied psychology in Germany (University of Trier) and theology in Scotland (University of Edinburgh). He currently teaches both disciplines at Melbourne School of Theology/Eastern College Australia. Michael established the Centre for Theology and Psychology at MST/Eastern College, currently serving as its Director (https://ctp.mst.edu.au). He has published on Adolf Schlatter’s theology (Union with Christ: Adolf Schlatter’s Relational Christology, 2015) and questions of discipleship at the intersection of theology and psychology (Flourishing in Tensions: Embracing Radical Discipleship, 2022). Michael is an ordained minister with the Free Church of Scotland and supports the preaching and teaching ministry in various churches in Melbourne.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Edinburgh
  • DipPsych
  • MTh
  • BA

Affiliations

  • Centre for Theological Inquiry (Princeton, NJ), Member

Selected Publications

  • Flourishing in Tensions: Embracing Radical Discipleship (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022)
  • “Bavinck on Psychology: Some Observations a Hundred Years On”, in Herman Bavinck: Centenary Essays, ed. Bruce Pass (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
  • “Adolf Schlatter on Recasting Theological Anthropology”, in Scottish Journal of Theology (2022) 74:4 (346–358)
  • “Free Church Theology 1843 to 1900: From the Disruption Fathers to the Believing Critics”, in History of Scottish Theology, eds. David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 242-264.

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