DR GUY FREELAND

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Bristol 1960)
Doctor of Philosophy (Bristol 1965)
Certificate of History and Philosophical Sciences (Cambridge 1963)

Subject areas

Liturgical Studies and Hermeneutics

Status

Part Time

RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Research activity (from 1980)
Current research

The nature of the Eucharistic transformation.
The Orthodox hermeneutic tradition.
The nature of Holy Tradition
Truth and Orthodoxy

Books

Canberra Cosmos: The Pilgrim's Guidebook to Sacred Sites and Symbols of Australia's Capital. Sydney: Primavera, 1995.

Books edited

1543 And All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, ed. by G.Freeland & A.Corones, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000

Chapters in books

‘Evolutionism and Arch(a)eology’. Chapter in The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought, ed. by D.R..Oldroyd & I.Langham, 175-219. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983.
‘Death and Australian Civil Religion’. Chapter in Essays on Mortality, ed. by M.Crouch & B.Huppauf, 105-20. Kensington NSW: Faculty of Arts, UNSW, 1985.
‘In Quest of a Cognitive Historiography’. Chapter in Dimensions of Cognitive Science, ed. by R.W.Albury & P.Slezak, 1-19. Kensington NSW: UNSW Centre for Cognitive Science, 1988.
‘Reflections on the Curious Iconography of the Temple of Sulis Minerva, Aquae Sulis’. Chapter in Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, ed. by M.Dillon, 123-44. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1996.
‘Introduction: In Praise of Toothing Stones’. Chapter in 1543 And All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution, ed. by G.Freeland & A.Corones, 1-15. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
‘The Lamp in the Temple: Copernicus and the Demise of a Medieval Ecclesiastical Cosmology’. Chapter in 1543 And All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution ed by G.Freeland & A.Corones, 189-270. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.

Articles in refereed journals

‘Unravelling the Labyrinth?’, Parergon 30 (1981) 13-28.
‘Authority, Tradition and the Holy Mysteries’, Phronema 1 (1986) 33-41.
‘Hermeneutics and the Orthodox Renaissance of Biblical Studies’ (J.Breck, The Power of the Word in the Worshiping Church, Crestwood NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1987); essay review in Phronema 2 (1987) 79-84 ; reprinted in Epiphany 11 (1991) 77-81.
‘The Dehumanisation of Humanity and the Desanctification of the Natural World: The Search for the Villain’ (P.Sherrard, The Rape of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science, Ipswich: Golgonooza Press’, 1987); essay review in Phronema 3 (1988) 71-80.
‘Time, Architecture and the Byzantine Iconographic Programme’, Phronema 4 (1989) 75-88.
‘The Innovativeness of the Traditional and the Traditionality of the Innovative: The Seeming Paradox of Orthodox Liturgical and Iconographical Development’ (H.Wybrew, The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite, London: SPCK, 1989); essay review in Phronema 5 (1990) 53-62.
‘Stretching Tradition? Reflections on an Unusual Australian Icon’ Phronema 9 (1994) 63-71.

Book reviews in refereed journals

I.Langham, The Building of British Social Anthropology: W.H.R.Rivers and his Cambridge Disciples in the Development of Kinship Studies, 1898-1931, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981; in Mankind 13 (1983) 540-1.
Mother Alexandra, The Holy Angels, Still River MA: St Bede’s Publications, 1981; in Phronema 1 (1986) 55-7; 17, 2002 64-65.
H.Himmworth, Scientific Knowledge and Philosophical Thought, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1986; in Metascience 5 (1987) 74-6.
J.Merson, Roads to Xanadu, ABC-TV, BBC, WGBH (Nova) Boston, 1989; in Metascience 7 (1989) 57-9 (TVseries review).
D.J.Wilcox, The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989: in Annals of Science 49 (1992) 194-6.
A.Borst, The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993; in Prometheus 13 (1995) 323-6.
B.S.Baigre (ed.) Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996; in Metascience NS 7 (1998) 528-34.
S.Mithen, The Prehistory of Mind: The Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science, London: Thames & Hudson, 1996; in Journal of Religious History, 23, (1999) pp.236-8.
E.Reeves, Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997: in Journal of Early Modern History, 4 (2000) 218-20.
D.Turnbull, Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge, Amsterdam: Harvard Harvard Academic Publishers, 2000; in Metascience NS 10 (2001) 371-8.
T.G.Stylianopoulos, The Way of Christ: Gospel, Spiritual life and Renewal in Orthodoxy, Brookline MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2002: in Phronema 17 (2002) 64-5.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, Encounter, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005: in eOikonomia 1 (2006) 3 pp

Articles in non-refereed journals
(Including some incidental items in refereed journals and some items in publications other than Journals)
Articles

The University of New South Wales Quarterly, 25,1981, pp.14-15.
Family Health and Medical Library, Rushcutters Bay NSW: Bay Books, 1981, pp.1665-7 (encyclopedia entries).
The Greek Orthodox Youth of Australia in Dialogue, 2, 1986, pp.98-105. ‘Creation Science’, Science and Education, Sydney: NSW Humanist Society, 1987, 6 pp.
Voice of Orthodoxy, 11, 1990, p.60 (Pt 1) & 11, 1990, pp.69-70 (Pt 2).
A2HPS3 Newsletter, 44, 1993, pp.5-9.
The Canberra Times, 22/10/95, p.19 (extracts from Canberra Cosmos).
Greek Australian Vema, Dec. 2001, pp.26-7; Jan. 2002, p.24; May 2002, p.17; Nov. 2002, p.15; Dec.2002, pp.12-13; June 2006, p.26; July 2006, pp. 26-27; Aug. 2006, p. 26.

Editorials

Phronema, 1, 1986, p.3; 2, 1987, p.2; 3, 1988, p.2; 4, 1989, pp.2-4; 5, 1990, pp.2-4; 6, 1991, pp.2-3; 7, 1992, pp.2-3; 8, 1993, pp.2-5; 9, 1994, pp.2-6.

Obituaries

Metascience, 3, 1985, pp.71-2; 5, 1987, pp.55-6.
A2HPS3 Newsletter, 48,1994, pp.8-11.

Reports

Voice Of Orthodoxy, 7, 1986, p.6.
AAHPSSS Newsletter,32, 1988, pp.6-10.
Phronema, 2, pp.72-3; 6, 1991, pp.67-8.

Book reviews in non-refereed journals

Voice of Orthodoxy, 5, 1984, p.116; 5, 1984, p.144; 6, 1985, pp.46-7; 6, 1985, p.71; 6, 1985, p.141; 7, 1986, p.5; 7, 1986, p.36; 7, 1986, pp.73-74; 1986, pp.84-5; 8, 1987, p.11.
The Canberra Times (12/02/94) C 10.

Postgraduate research supervision and examination (last five years only)
Research degree theses supervised

‘Moving the eye through an overlapping world; Giotto’s representation of space and it’s impact on the visual arts and natural sciences’ PhD, UNSW 2001
‘The Legitimacy and Suitability of the Sabbath as a Symbol of the Eschatological Age’, PhD, Grffith University 2003- 2006 (Associate Supervisor)

Professional standing (last five years only)
Conferences attended

Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Catholic Institute of Sydney, 5-6/10/02.
International Symposium: Theology and Aesthetics, Nicholson Museum, Sydney University and St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College 09/05/02.
‘Sinners, Saints and Scholars’, Macquarie University, 07/05/05.

Conference papers

‘God’s Judgement of Sinners in Genesis: Hermeneutics, Theology and the Iconography of San Marco’, Sinners, Saints and Scholars, conference paper, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 2005.

Participation in academic program reviews

Internal review of programs, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, 2006

Editorial Board member of a refereed journal or publication

Member, Editorial Committee, St Andrew’s Orthodox Press.

Referee for journal

Phronema

Occasional lectures

‘Nature of the Universe by Lucretius’, Great Books Group, UNSW, 24/05/02.
‘The Icon of the Trinity’, St Spyridon, Kingsford, 28/10/03.
‘Faith in the Arts’, Wahroonga Quaker Interfaith Panel Discussion, 08/06/06.
‘The Nature, Meaning and Function of Icons in the Orthodox Church’, St Michael’s Orthodox Group, Crows Nest, 26/06/06.

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING (last five years only)
Course co-ordination, development of curriculum and teaching methodology

Involved with curriculum review and development, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
Co-ordination of four MA level course units, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College

CONTRIBUTION TO INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE (last five years only)
Membership of committees and bodies in the SCD

Member, Research Degree Committee

Membership of committees and bodies in the Member Institution

Member, Council, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
Member, Faculty, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
Member, Standing Committee of Faculty, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
Member, Curriculum Development Committee, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College

Activities within the Academic Department

Curriculum development, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, co-ordination of MA (Theol.Studies) Vacation Schools.


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