Peter Adam publications

Books

  • The Majestic Son: a commentary on Hebrews, Sydney, AIO, 1992.
  • Speaking God’s Words: A Practical Theology of Preaching, IVP, Leicester, 1996.
  • [American Edition of Speaking God’s Words, Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, 1998.]
  • Revised edition of The Majestic Son, Sydney, Aquila Press, 2004.
  • [Speaking God’s Words, republished, Vancouver, Regent College Publishing, 2004.]
  • Hearing God’s Words: Biblical Spirituality, NSBT, Leicester, Apollos/Downers Grove IVP, 2004.
  • Written for Us: Receiving God’s Words in the Bible, Nottingham, IVP, 2008.
  • Peter Adam and Gina Denholm, eds., Proclaiming Christ: Ridley College Melbourne 1910-2010, Adelaide, OpenBook, 2010.
  • The Message of Malachi, The Bible Speaks Today, Nottingham, IVP, 2013.
  • Á l’écoute de la Parole de Dieu, tr. Christophe Paya, Charols, France, Excelsis, 2014, [French translation of Hearing God’s Words].
  • Walking in God’s Words: Ezra and Nehemiah, RBT, South Sydney, Aquila, 2014.
  • Malakį’nįn Mesaji, tr, Yeşim Mısırcı, Haberci, Istanbul, 2016. [Turkish translation of The Message of Malachi].
  • The Message of Malachi, [Chinese translation], Campus Evangelical Fellowship Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016.
  • Esther: For such a time as this, RTBT, South Sydney, Aquila, 2018.
  • The Majestic Son: a commentary on Hebrews, Second Edition, Aquila Press, Sydney South, 2021.

Booklets

  • Living the Trinity, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1982.
  • Guidance, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1989.
  • Roots of Contemporary Evangelical Spirituality, Nottingham, Grove Books, 1989.
  • The Church ‘Halfly Reformed’ -The Puritan Dilemma, London, St. Antholin’s Lectureship, 1998.
  • Peter Adam, Alison Taylor and Richard Treloar, Making Connections: Theological Leadership in the Australian Church, Sydney, Anglican General Synod, 2001.
  • Word and Spirit: the Puritan-Quaker Debate, London, St. Antholin’s Lectureship, 2001.
  • To bring men to heaven by preaching: John Donne’s Evangelistic Sermons, London, St Antholin’s Lectureship, 2006.
  • Gospel trials in 1662: To Stay or To Go, London, Latimer Trust, 2012.
  • The ‘Very Pure word of God’: The Book of Common Prayer as a Model of Biblical Liturgy, London, Latimer Trust, 2012.
  • Lee Gatiss and Peter Adam, Reformed foundations, Reforming future: A Vision for 21st Century Anglicans, Watford, Church Society, 2013.
  • Biblical Insights on Church Music, South Brisbane, Mathew Hale Public Library, 2014.
  • Thomas Cranmer: Using the Bible to Evangelise the Nation, London, Latimer Trust, 2020.

Chapters in books

  • ‘Jesus,’ in, David Atkinson and David Field, eds., The New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, Leicester, IVP, 1995, pp. 507-10.
  • ‘The Preacher and the Sufficient Word,’ in Christopher Green and David Jackman, eds., When God’s Voice is Heard: Essays on preaching presented to Dick Lucas, Leicester, IVP, 1995, pp. 27-42.
  • ‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry,’ in Melvin Tinker, ed., The Anglican Evangelical Crisis, Fearn, Christian Focus Publications, 1995, pp. 124-43.
  • ‘The History of Theological Education in the Diocese of Melbourne,’ in Brian Porter, ed., Melbourne Anglicans, Collingwood, JBCE, 1997, pp. 159-78.
  • ‘The Trinity in Human Community,’ in Tim Bradshaw and Nigel Atkinson, eds., Grace and Truth, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1998, pp. 52-65.
  • ‘Preaching and Biblical Theology,’ in TD Alexander, Brian Rosner, eds., The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Leicester, IVP, 2000, pp. 104-12.
  • ‘Communion, virtue or vice?’ in Peter Bolt, Mark Thompson, and Robert Tong, eds., The faith once for all delivered, Sydney, ACR, 2005, pp. 71-76.
  • ‘Theology in the life of the church,’ in B.N. Kaye, ed., Wonderfully and confessedly strange: Australian essays in Anglican ecclesiology, Hindmarsh, ATF Press, 2006, pp. 81-102.
  • ‘Morris, Leon Lamb,’ in Donald K McKim, ed., Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, 2nd Edition, Downers Grove /Nottingham, IVP, 2007, pp. 751-55.
  • ‘Liturgical Preaching,’ in K. Weller, ed., Please no more boring sermons, Brisbane, Simeon Society, 2007, pp. 67-78.
  • [‘Preaching and pastoral ministry’ republished as ‘Whatever happened to preaching?’, in K. Weller, ed., Please no more boring sermons, Brisbane, Simeon Society, 2007, pp. 13-28.]
  • ‘”Preaching of a Lively Kind”: Calvin’s engaged expository preaching,’ in Mark D. Thompson, ed., Engaging with Calvin: Aspects of the Reformer’s legacy for today, Nottingham, Apollos, 2009, pp. 13-41.
  • [‘A Church “Halfly Reformed”: the Puritan Dilemma,’ republished in Lee Gatiss, ed., Pilgrims, Warriors, and Servants, London, Latimer Trust, 2010, pp. 185-216.]
  • ‘The founding of Ridley College,’ in Adam and Denholm, Proclaiming Christ, pp. 13-30.
  • ‘Ridley: the future,’ in Adam and Denholm, Proclaiming Christ, pp. 177-90.
  • [‘”To bring men to heaven by preaching”: John Donne’s Evangelistic Sermons,’ republished in Lee Gatiss, ed., Preachers, Pastors and Ambassadors: Puritan Wisdom for Today’s Church, St Antholin’s Lectures, Volume 2, 2001-2010, London, The Latimer Trust, 2012, pp. 261-92.]
  • [‘Word and Spirit: the Puritan-Quaker Debate,’ republished in Gatiss, Preachers, pp. 49-96.]
  • ‘A University Student Address,’ in Keith Weller and Adrian Lane, eds., Better be a Good Sermon: Preaching for Special Occasions and Contexts, Brunswick East, Acorn, 2012, pp. 243-48.
  • ‘Eighteen steps to prepare a sermon,’ in Weller and Lane, Good Sermon, pp. 285-98.
  • ‘For the Anglican Diocese of Sydney Synod,’ in Weller and Lane, Good Sermon, pp. 271-76.
  • [‘Australia – Whose Land?’ republished in Bearings: Getting our bearings again in the light of the gospel, Helen Beazley and Dave Andrews, eds., West End, Frank Communications, 2012, pp. 179-202.]
  • ‘The Pastor as Preacher,’ in Melvin Tinker, ed., The Renewed Pastor: writings in honour of Philip Hacking, Fearn, Christian Focus, 2012, pp. 67-82.
  • ‘Calvin’s school of Christ for preachers,’ in Michael Parsons, ed., Aspects of Reforming: Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe, Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2013, pp. 118-37.
  • ‘The Atoning Saviour,’ in Michael R. Stead, ed., Christ died for our sins: Essays on the Atonement, Canberra, Barton, 2013, pp. 15-34.
  • ‘Christ, eternal priest and sacrifice for sin,’ in Stead, ed., Christ died, pp. 121-41.
  • With John Dunnill, ‘A dialogue about penal substitutionary atonement,’ in Stead, ed., Christ died, pp. 142-71.
  • Consulting Editor for Lee Gatiss, ed., NIV Proclamation Bible: Correctly handing the word of truth, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2013.
  • ‘From text to doctrine: the Bible and theology,’ in Gatiss, ed., Proclamation Bible, pp. xlvii-lii.
  • ‘Ezra-Nehemiah,’ in Gatiss, Proclamation Bible, pp. 498-99.
  • ‘Malachi,’ in Gatiss, Proclamation Bible, pp. 1038-39.
  • [‘Calvin’s preaching and homiletic: nine engagements,’ republished in Michael Parsons, ed., Reformation Faith: Exegesis and Theology in the Protestant Reformation, Milton Keynes, Paternoster, 2014, pp. 138-157.]
  • ‘What is God’s word for these people?’ and, ‘If I perish, I perish,’ in Rhett Dodson, ed., Unashamed workmen: How Expositors Prepare and Preach, Fearn, Mentor, 2014, pp. 17-34 and 35-44.
  • ‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer’, in Roland Ashby, ed., Heroes of the Faith, Mulgrave, Garratt, 2015, pp. 79-83.
  • ‘Imagining our Anglican future’, in Lee Gatiss, ed, Positively Anglican! Building on the foundations and transforming the church, London, Church Society/Lost Coin Books, 2016, pp. 101-119.
  • ‘Whitefield and Wesley on Sin and Atonement’, in Ian Maddock, ed, Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley versus Whitefield? Eugene, Pickwick, 2018, 124-143.
  • ‘Galatians 3: “Hear the Scriptures! Receive the promise! Believe in Christ!”’, in DA Carson and J Robinson Sr, eds, Christ has set us free: Preaching and Teaching Galatians, Wheaton, Crossway, 2019, 65-86.
  • ‘”Each in Our Own Language’”: The Translation of the Bible into Australia Indigenous Languages’, in PA Barker, and BS Billings, eds, Making the Word of God Fully Known: Essays on Church, Culture, and Mission in Honor of Archbishop Philip Freier, Eugene, Wipf&Stock, 2020, 133-58.
  • ‘Expository Preaching in Historical Context: A Rich and Inspiring Resource’, in Chase R. Kuhn and Paul Grimmond, Theology is for Preaching: Biblical Foundations, Method, & Practice, Bellingham, Lexham Press, 2021, 155-178.
  • ‘Where shall wisdom be found?’, in J Firth and PA Barker, eds, Honoring the Wise: Wisdom in Scripture, Ministry, and Life: Celebrating Lindsay Wilson’s Thirty Years at Ridley, Eugene, Wipf and Stock, 2022, 219-232.

Articles in Journals

  • ‘The Child in the Church?’ Churchman, 91.4, 1977, pp. 318-28.
  • ‘Arguments for expository preaching,’ Essentials, December 1999, pp. 5-7.
  • ‘Avoiding boredom in preaching,’ Essentials, March 2000, pp. 5-8.
  • Honouring Jesus Christ,’ Churchman, 119/1, 2005, pp. 35-50.
  • [‘Honouring Jesus Christ,’ republished in St Mark’s Review, 198, 2005.1, pp. 11-18.]
  • [‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry,’ republished on the website Biblical Theology Briefings, 2006.]
  • [‘Preaching and Pastoral Ministry’, republished in the Rutherford House Journal, 2006.]
  • ‘Arguing for expository preaching,’ Rutherford Journal of Church and Ministry, 13.1, 2006, pp. 4-7.
  • ‘Incarnational Theology for a Missionary Church,’ St Mark’s Review, 200, 2006, pp. 14-21.
  • ‘God’s powerful words: Five Principles of Biblical Spirituality in Isaiah 55,’ SBJT, Vol. 10. No 4, 2007, pp. 28-37.
  • ‘Finding the central ministry purpose of a book of the Bible, Part One,’ Essentials, Autumn, 2008.
  • ‘Finding the central ministry purpose of a book of the Bible, Part Two – 2 Corinthians,’ Essentials, Winter, 2008
  • ‘Power and Authority,’ St Mark’s Review, Sexual Abuse and the Church, 205 [2], 2008, pp. 51-68.
  • [‘Preaching of a Lively Kind’, republished in Proceedings of the Uniting Church Historical Society Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, 16.2, December 2009, pp. 59-96.]
  • ‘Australia – Whose Land’, John Saunders Lecture, BriefCACE, 47, 2009, pp.1-8.
  • ‘Christ and Creation,’ St. Mark’s Review, 212, 2010, pp. 101-16.
  • ‘Education and Formation for Ministry in Theological Education Today,’ published on ACT website, 2010.
  • ‘Calvin’s Preaching and Homiletic: Nine Engagements, Part 1,’ Churchman, Vol. 124, No. 3, Autumn, 2010, pp. 201-16.
  • ‘Calvin’s Preaching and Homiletic: Nine Engagements, Part 2,’ Churchman, Vol. 124, No. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 331-42.
  • ‘Communion, covenant, conflict, and cooperation,’ St Mark’s Review, 220, May 2012 [2], pp. 65-77.
  • ‘May God’s Voice be Heard and Christ be Known: The Bible in Theological Education,’ Churchman, 126/3, 2012, pp. 199-214.
  • ‘Communion, covenant, conflict, and cooperation,’ St Mark’s Review, 220, May 2012 [2], pp. 65-77.
  • ‘A Biblical Theology of Wisdom: the only wise God,’ Vox Reformata, 79, 2014, pp. 4-27.
  • ‘Hearing and Heeding Australia’s Aborigines’ cry for justice,’ CASE, No 40, 2014, pp. 25-29.
  • ‘Malachi as a model for preachers’, SBJT 20.3, 2016, pp. 27-48.
  • ‘Sermon preached at the ordination of Richard Condie as Bishop of Tasmania’, Essentials, Winter Edition, 2016, pp. 10-13.
  • ‘People From Every Language: Australia’s Indigenous Peoples and God’s Gospel Plan,’ in Vox Reformata, 83, 2018, 5-24.

Theses

  • What kind of Christianity is 1 Peter? MTh Thesis, University of London, 1976.
  • The practice of the Imitation of Christ with special reference to the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, PhD Thesis, University of Durham, 1981.