Grenville Kent

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Grenville J. R. Kent (born 1965) [1] is an Australian academic, film producer, author, and Christian communicator. He is the producer of Big Questions, a forthcoming documentary series examining faith, and the "10 Questions for God" series of booklets. He has earned a PhD from the University of Manchester, England, and a D.Min from the Australian College of Theology, and taught Cultural Apologetics (Arts/Theology) and Old Testament at the Wesley Institute (now Excelsia College) in Sydney. He has 6 children including Zoe, Marcus, Ethan, Thomas, Jeremy and Zara.

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Biography

Grenville Kent is producer of Big Questions. The pilot episode, "Does God Exist? Part 1" examines flight and compares design features of the albatross and the Airbus A380. It includes interviews with two Oxford University professors: atheist Peter Atkins and John Lennox, a Christian. It was shot in New Zealand, Hungary, England, France and Australia. Kent is co-presenter alongside his seven-year-old son Marcus. Future episodes will discuss consciousness, space and the stars, human morality, and whether God genuinely spoke through the Bible. [2]

Kent taught Old Testament and Cultural Apologetics (Arts/Theology) at the Wesley Institute from 2003 to 2013. His PhD from the University of Manchester is in Old Testament literature, and examines the Witch of En-Dor narrative in 1Samuel 28 using film theory. His DMin is in Apologetics (the rational explanation of Christianity) and looks at factors influencing Australians towards and away from belief in God. His MA (Theol) from Morling College studied the Song of Solomon, a piece of Biblical erotica. [3] His MA (Film) was from the University of Technology, Sydney. [4] He also earned a Grad. Cert. Commerce (Marketing) from the University of New South Wales, a BA (Theol) from Pacific Union College, and a BA (Mass Communication) from the University of Technology Sydney. [3]

Kent's memberships include the Society of Biblical Literature and the Evangelical Theological Society in the United States, and the Tyndale Fellowship in the United Kingdom. He has guest-lectured in the Philippines and Trinidad. [3] He has presented papers at the annual Society of Biblical Literature meetings.

He has presented on Christian apologetics for the Cambridge Scholars Network, European Leadership Forum [5] (Hungary) and Campus Life, and travels internationally as a youth outreach speaker across several Christian denominations. He is a frequent presenter on Christian TV programs.

Kent started "Church With No Ties" as a youth pastor and university chaplain. [6] Kent's speaking appointments have included men's conferences, [7] theology congresses [8] [9] camp meetings, and many others.

Publications

Kent has authored dozens of articles, the "10 Questions for God" Bible study series, films, comic books (graphic novels), books, and book chapters.

Books

Book chapters and scholarly articles

Scholarly articles:

Book chapters:

Additionally, Kent has many stories published in the "Australian Stories" series of books, which are published from Sydney by Strand:

Films and documentaries

Kent has produced the following films:

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References

  1. ↑ Andy Nash, ed., Unleash the Dream (United States: Review and Herald), p140 allows a rough estimate of his birth year
  2. ↑ "Tackling the Big Questions Archived 11 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine " by Hannah Bath. Wesley Institute, 25 August 2009
  3. 1 2 3 "Theology Faculty Archived 13 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine " section "Rev Dr Grenville Kent", Wesley Institute. Accessed September 2009
  4. 1 2 Keynote speakers Archived 8 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Reel Dialogue conference 2008. Accessed September 2009
  5. ↑ European Media Communicators Network [ permanent dead link ], European Leadership Forum. Accessed 8 October 2009
  6. ↑ Andy Nash, ed. Unleash the Dream, p140?
  7. ↑ 2007 Men For Christ Ministries conference in Sydney, topic "Images of Masculinity in the Media". Free audio download available from the conference webpage. See also 2008 poster (archived version)
  8. ↑ For instance, Wesley Institute Theology Conference 09 Archived 5 December 2012 at archive.today on 1 August 2009. Theme "Jonah's God: Then and Now", and Kent was the keynote speaker
  9. ↑ One talk, "Who appeared at Endor?" was published in a 2006 book (OCLC number 76952711)
  10. ↑ Cited in Richard M. Davidson, Flame of Yahweh: A Theology of Sexuality in the Old Testament (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2007), page 617 – footnote 36. Quote: "See the forthcoming exegetical monograph on the Song of Songs by Grenville Kent, which shows how the Song explicitly provides a stark contrast to modern pornography." (The Biblical book is very subtle)
  11. ↑ "Adventists Answer DA VINCI Challenges" by Nathan Brown. Adventist Review (18 May 2006). "Decoding The Da Vinci Code" by Grenville Kent. Signs of the Times (June 2006). "Decode for Sydney Universities" by Record staff, Samantha Ireland, and James Etwell. Record 111:25 (1 July 2006), p1,4. "ANN Feature: Adventists Ready Da Vinci Code Response, Affirm Bible Account" by Mark A. Kellner, Nathan G. Brown, and ANN staff. Adventist News Network, 16 May 2006
  12. ↑ O código Da Vinci e a Bíblia: seria o Cristianismo a maior fraude da história? (Tatuí, São Paulo: Casa Publicadora Brasileira, 2006), 1st edn
  13. ↑ Šifra mistra Leonarda rozluštěna (Praha: Advent-Orion, 2006), 1st edn
  14. ↑ "The Annual PT Book Awards". Preaching Today website, posted 2011-07-02. One judge commented, "Reclaiming the Old Testament for Christian Preaching is well-written, practical, scholarly but readable, and the writers come from a variety of theological positions within evangelicalism. Each chapter discusses how to preach a particular book or genre of the Old Testament. I especially like the example sermons in each chapter. The book has a great chapter on preaching from difficult Old Testament texts."
  15. ↑ Pages 61–62, 123–125, and 166–167 respectively. They originally appeared in ``Signs of the Times March 1992, May 1996, and August 1993 respectively
  16. ↑ Pages 23–25, 106–108, 138–140, and 188–191 respectively. These originally appeared in ``Signs of the Times September 1996, November 1995, September 2000; and ``Record 25 October 2003 respectively
  17. ↑ Cited in Flashpoint Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Record 108 (1 November 2003), p3
  18. ↑ Pages 35–37, 224–28, and 242–44 respectively
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