Over 100,000 items of rare biblical, theological and missiological works
The Bible Society of Australia’s Collection is held at St Mark’s under custodial agreement. The Collection includes Bibles printed before 1500 AD, rare editions, first translations, a wide variety of translation tools, and many bibles of great historical importance — both nationally and globally.
This Collection is comprised of several archive boxes of papers, pamphlet boxes of papers, correspondence, photographs, reel film, slides etc. There are newspaper articles, magazines with articles referring to Burgmann, and his tenure as Bishop of the Canberra Goulburn Diocese.
Methodist minister and missionary, anthropologist and missiologist of international repute, fellow of the Linnaean Society, an esteemed philatelist, a visionary Christian scholar, and an inspiring teacher, Dr Alan Tippett presented his library and manuscript collection to St Mark’s National Theological Centre in 1984.
