Dr Jacqueline Service

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Dr Jacqueline Service is Associate Head of School and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Charles Sturt University (St Mark’s National Theological Centre), Canberra, Australia. She teaches subjects such as Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology and Theological Anthropology. Her research focuses on Trinitarian Theology, Divine Ontology and Human Well-Being, International Development and justice, and the practical implications of Systematic Theology. Her forthcoming book with Fortress Academic is entitled Triune Well-Being: The Kenotic-Enrichment of the Eternal Trinity.

Jacqueline also currently serves on the Editorial Board of Religion & Development, a journal of the International Network on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development (IN//RCSD) at Humboldt-University in Berlin. She has been actively involved in church ministries (particularly in the Anglican Church) over many years and is a regular keynote speaker for seminars and conferences. Previous to these undertakings, Jacqueline was Lecturer of Theology and Program Director at Alphacrucis University College; a Lawyer in Commercial and Government Legal Practice; and, for over a decade, worked at the Australian Government’s Agency for International Development (AusAID) managing, reviewing and designing aid programs across the Pacific and South-West Asia. During her time with AusAID she worked at the Australian High Commission in Fiji, responsible for implementing the Australian Government’s bilateral aid program in Fiji. Her work involved managing key partnerships with the Fiji Government, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and various United Nations agencies.

Jacqueline has a B.A. Intercultural Studies (Missiology); Bachelor of Laws (with Honors); Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and a Master in Theology (with Distinction) and for her doctoral thesis, she received one of the highest academic honours – the Higher Degree by Research University Medal. She is also a parent of three beautiful children and enjoys a good red, gooey cheeses, hazelnut chocolate and high-heeled shoes.

Would be especially interested in supervising topics on:

Trinitarian theology
Doctrine of God
Dogmatics of Incarnation
Christology
Divine attributes & Classical theism
Kenotic theology
Ecclesiology
Theological Anthropology
Systematic theology & Women
Applied Systematics

Publications

BOOKS/JOURNAL/OPINION PUBLICATIONS

Triune Well Being: The Kenotic-Enrichment of the Eternal Trinity (upcoming Fortress Academic Press, 2024).
“Contesting the Dynamics of Secular Development: An Ontology of Trinitarian Well-Being as Christian Rationale for Human Well-Being.” Journal of Religion and Development, Volume 1 , Issue 1 (2022): 45-58.
“Motherhood, Spirituality and Culture” Journal for the Study of Spirituality, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2021): 89-91.
“Existent Endurance and Future Joy” Logia Blogos, University of St Andrews, Scotland. September 2021.
“Trinity, Aseity, and the Commensurability of the Incommensurate One.” St Marks Review, No. 250, December 2019 (4): 63-77.
“A Disabled Trinity’: Help or Hindrance to Disability Theology.” St Mark’s Review, No 232, July 2015: 50-64.
“The Australian Election: A Moment or a Movement?” TEAR Australia Opinion Piece, 2019.

EDITORIAL WORK

Current Editorial Board Member of Religion & Development, an open access journal of the International Network on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development (IN//RCSD), at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Co-editor for St Mark’s Review themed issue: “Threat or Promise? Christianity and International Aid and Development” no. 261 (2022).
Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Anglican Studies (March 2022).
“Editorial.” St. Mark’s Review, no. 261 (October 2022): 1–3.

Scholarship and Community Engagement

Presented paper entitled “Paternal Power: The Kenotic Nature of the Relations of Origin and the Unbegotten Father” at Society for the Study of Theology Conference (SST) 17-19 April 2023, Warwick, UK.

Keynote speaker for Propel Evangelical Network Conference, Wesley Mission, Sydney – 15-16 March 2023.

Filmed interview for docuseries by Compassion Australia on poverty and biblical justice (Sept 2022).

Podcast on “Woke Theology” for The Political Animals (on Spotify), August 2022.

Keynote speaker for the Sydney Anglican Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) AGM, October 2021:“Unfinished Business of Women’s Ordination: The Waiting and Hastening of a Proleptic Eschatology.”

Live YouTube Panel – “Trinity and Headship” – for Fixing Her Eyes Conversations, Sydney. July 2021.

Commencement Lecture St Mark’s National Theological Centre, “Just Worship: Trinity, Social Justice, and…Kim Kardashian?” Canberra, July 2021.

Podcast on “Theology and Feminism” for The Political Animals (on Spotify). February 2021.

Keynote Speaker— The Worship Revolution, International Women’s Day, Compassion, Sydney, Australia, March 2020.

Keynote Speaker—Pursuing Justice (2019), The Justice Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Nov 2019.

Podcast “Justice as Worship” for The Justice Conference, 2019.

Keynote Speaker—Grounded in Hope, NSW TEAR Gathering, Sydney, Australia, Sept 2019.

Public Seminar Why Dance Alone? A Conversation on Humanity, God, International Aid, and Us, Hunters Hill Anglican Church, August 2019.

Presented paper “Contesting the Dynamics of Secular Development: An Ontology of Trinitarian Well-Being as Rationale for Human Well-Being” (2019) at Conference on Cosmology and Community: Religion and Sustainable Development, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 2019.

“Questioning the Australian Aid Paradigm” Presenting seminar for the Core Working Group of the Campaign for Australian Aid, 29 March 2017.

Presented paper “The Kenotic Path of Glory: Daniel Hardy’s Glory of Divine Well-Being and Sergei Bulgakov’s Trinitarian Kenoticism” (2016), Exploring the Glory of God Conference, St John’s College, University of Durham, UK., 2016.