Mark Keown

Senior Lecturer
Theology
Laidlaw College
New Zealand

Biography

Mark began his working life as a school teacher. He became a Christian in 1985 and went into full-time service in 1987 doing community outreach work with St Columba's Presbyterian Church in Pakuranga. He came to Laidlaw College as a student in 1990, completing a BTh with first class honours. After a year in ministry at St John's Presbyterian Church, Mark completed ordination training at the Dunedin School of Ministry and served as a minister alongside his wife Emma at Greenlane Presbyterian Church from 1997-2003 and then at Mt Roskill Baptist. In 2005 he completed his ThD, looking at a mandate for evangelism in the Pauline Epistles, and joined the Laidlaw College staff.

Research Intrest

Theology in dialogue with science, technology and new media, as well religion, media and popular culture.

List of Publications
‘The Use of the OT in Philippians.’ In All the Prophets have Declared. Ed. Matthew R. Malcolm. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2015: 139–65.
‘Paul’s Vision of a New Masculinity.’ Colloquium, 47.1 (2016): 47–60.
‘The Apostolic Green Imperative.’ In Living on the Planet Earth: Faith Communities and Ecology. Ed. Neil Darragh. Auckland: Accent Publications, 2016.
‘Who Were the Evangelisers? Some Implications of Bauckham’s Eyewitness Theory for Early Evangelism,’ Stimulus (April, 2017): 25–31.