William R. G. Loader

Who is William R. G. Loader?

William Ronald George "Bill" Loader is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and a professor at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.

From 1978, Loader was New Testament lecturer at the Perth Theological Hall of the Uniting Church in Australia teaching in the theology programme in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities; from 1986, he has been lecturer and later Professor of New Testament at Murdoch University; Loader was the editor of Colloquium, the journal of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Theological Studies, until 2005. He is currently undertaking a five year Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship on: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era.

Loader's academic degrees and qualifications are:

BA - Bachelor or Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Ministerial education at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland

BD - Bachelor of Divinity, University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr theol - Doctor of Theology - Supervisor: Professor Dr Ferdinand Hahn; Dissertation published in revised form in 1981: Sohn und Hoherpriester. Eine traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Christologie des Hebräerbriefes, WMANT 53