Sarah Bachelard
Lecturer in Theology
Course Coordinator BTh
BA (Hons) ANU, BA (Theology) Oxon, PhD ANU
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Bio
Sarah's first degree was in Classics and Mediaeval History, with an honours thesis on the Cathar heresy in 13 th century France. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study theology at Oxford, and subsequently a Fulbright Postgraduate Award to undertake doctoral coursework in religion and ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She completed her PhD in moral philosophy at the Australian National University in 2000, with a particular focus on the work of Raimond Gaita and Cora Diamond. Sarah worked in the Senate Committee Office of the Commonwealth Parliament for 11 years as a principal researcher and Committee Secretary, and was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church in 2006.
Sarah has a particular interest in meditation in the Christian tradition. In the first half of 2006, she was director in residence of the Center for Meditation and Interfaith Dialogue at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and is one of the key note speakers at the 2007 John Main Seminar of the World Community for Christian Meditation, in Montreal. She joined the faculty at St Mark's National Theological Centre in July 2006.
Teaching
- THL111 Introduction to Theological Studies
- THL316 The Christian Doctrine of God
- THL314 Sacramental Theology
- THL473 Teaching Religious Ethics
Research
- Philosophical and theological ethics
- Spirituality and theology
