Description
Antony Campbell, SJ, is a Jesuit priest, formally emeritus professor of Old Testament at Jesuit Theological College within the ecumenical United Faculty of Theology, a recognised teaching institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity.At 75,he has withdrawn from the governing bodies of JTC and UFT. Describing himself as ‘semi-retired’, he is still teaching and publishing. He is the author of over a dozen books and many articles on the Older Testament or Christian faith (including God First Loved Us [Paulist, 2000], The Whisper of Spirit [Eerdmans, 2008], God and Bible [Paulist, 2008], Making Sense of the Bible: Difficult Texts and Modern Faith [Paulist, 2010]), Experiencing Scripture [ATF, 2012], and Pentateuch Without Sources [in preparation]). He describes himself as ‘a New Zealander by birth, an Australian Jesuit by choice, and a lover of the Older Testament by passion’; he adds that, with ripening age, there are armchairs for sitting, riverbanks for walking, life for living, friends to delight in, God to commune with, even classes to teach— and nature, reading, and music to enjoy.