
Position: Academic Visitor
School and/or Centres: School of Philosophy
Email: petercharlesgrundy@gmail.com
Qualification: 1972 BA (Hons) - University of Sydney (Dissertation: 'The Popperian Theory of Science')<br />
1976 MA - Macquarie University (Dissertation: 'Dreams and Other Worlds')<br />
2000 BTh (Distinction)- Charles Sturt University (Laurence Murchison Prize)<br />
2009 PhD - Australian National University (Dissertation: 'D Z Phillips and the Wittgensteinian Grammar of ‘God is Love’).
Academic Experience
1973-74 Tutor, Philosophy, Macquarie University
Resident Tutor, Robert Menzies College, MacU
1977 Research Scholar, General Philosophy, Sydney Uni
2000-2007 Associate Lecturer, Theology, Charles Sturt Uni
2003-2008 Research Scholar, Philosophy, ANU
2007-2008 Visiting Faculty Fellow, School of Social Sciences, ANU
2009-2011 Visitor, Philosophy, School of Humanities, ANU
2012-2018 Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU
2019-2020 Academic Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU
2019-2026 Senior Research Fellow, Theology, Charles Sturt Uni
2022-2024 Academic Visitor, Philosophy, RSSS ANU
Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion
The Greek New Testament
The law of native title: common, statute and case
Biographical and national history
Missiology: Oceania
News media
- ‘Flawed view on Wik decision’ The Canberra Times 6 February 1996
- ‘Our freedoms assaulted by terrorism’ The Canberra Times 28 January 2002
- ‘The Devil’s in the Detail’ Anglican News June 2004
- ‘Catching an Existent’ The Australian Literary Review July 1 2009
- ‘Our Suffering and God’s Presence’ Anglican News May 2010
- ‘Can we put a suffering God in the dock?’ Anglican News June 2010
Journals
- ‘Native Title - whose responsibility?’ in Aboriginal Law Bulletin (UNSW) Vol3 No77 December 1995
- ‘Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund’ in Land Rights Queensland, September 1996
- Review of ‘Behind the Oval Office’ by Dick Morris in Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration No 87 February 1998
- ‘Why do we Suffer? Job's Dialogue with Eliphaz’ in St Mark's Review No 187 2001 (4)
- ‘Is religion just about believing, or is it also believing about?’ Review of Lamb W ‘Living Truth – Truthful Living’ in St Mark’s Review No 198 2005 (1)
- Review of ‘Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles’ in Australian Journal of Public Administration March 2008 Volume 67 Number 1 pp.110-112
- ‘Why Niebuhr at All?’ in The Review of Politics (University of Notre Dame USA) Vol 74 No 2 (Spring 2012) pp.341-343
- ‘Christian Faith, Luck and Offshore Detention’ Quadrant Vol 60
No 3, March 2016 pp.34,35 - ‘Neil McInnes’ Quadrant Vol 61 No 9 September 2017 pp.78-80
Anthologies
- ‘Prima Facie Native Title’ in Papers on Parliament No 26 August 1995
- ‘Cecil Ralph Lambert’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 15 1940-1980 Melbourne University Press 2000
- ‘James McIntosh Fraser’ in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Vol 2 Melbourne University Press 2004
- ‘Frederick Hubert Beerworth’ in The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Vol 2 Melbourne University Press 2004
University Text
- THL101 New Testament in Greek Study Outline Charles Sturt University 2000; revised 2001 and 2002
Public Record (copyright assigned)
- ‘Francis May Hayman’ Script of Sermon Australian War Memorial Accession No PRO 3043 2002
Some Other Projects, Lectures and Presentations
- Popperian Statements Seminar to faculty in Philosophy at Macquarie University May 1973
- Science and Theology ‘Blockbuster’ debate with Dr Roger Bradbury at The Festival of Science Canberra 7 May 2000
- Course Lecturer 2000-2007 Charles Sturt University THL 101 New Testament in Greek
- Parliamentary Committee project devised and presented to the short course Responsible Parliamentary Government in the Graduate Program in Public Policy ANU 11 September 2002 and 17 November 2003
- Wittgensteinian Dilemmas and the Religion of D Z Phillips: doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU 4 June 2004
- Second doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU 29 April 2005
- Lecture on the Christian Religion to School of Social Sciences ANU 18 March 2006
- ‘The Tortured Job’: Aspects of Evil Symposium 1 ANU 21 April 2006
- Third doctoral thesis seminar to faculty in Philosophy ANU 26 May 2006
- ‘Job’s Answer’: Aspects of Evil Symposium 2 ANU 7 September 2006
- Lecture on Heidegger and Time for PHIL 2097 ANU 26 March 2007
- ‘St Augustine on the Will to be Happy’: Freedom Symposium ANU 11 July 2007
- Lectures to the undergraduate course in Religious Studies, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Semester 1 2008
- ‘Has Flew Redeemed Himself?’ Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association Conference, Canberra ACT 27 September 2008
- 3 Public Debates on Religion with Dr Jeremy Shearmur at St Andrew’s Wamboin NSW May, June and July 2010
- ‘Rules, Descriptions and God’s Grammar’ Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association Conference Melbourne VIC 24 June 2012
- ‘Expressing Religion’ Catholic Institute of Sydney Biennial Conference The Expressible and the Inexpressible 5-7 October 2012
- ‘Expressivist Religion’ ANZATS Conference Perth WA 1 July 2014
- ‘Dying, certainly; but Saving as well?’ ANZATS Conference Melbourne VIC 4 July 2016
- ‘Wittgensteinian Grammar and Theological Limits’ in the series Theological Disputes Charles Sturt University 15 August 2023
Acknowledgements and Citations of Peter Grundy
- Ritchie J The Wentworths The Miegunyah Press Melbourne 1997 p.xiii
- Pawley A ‘Stephen Wurm 1922-2001: Linguist Extraordinaire’ Oceanic Linguistics Vol 41 No 1 June 2002 p.1
- Morris J ‘Sea Country – the Croker Island Case’ Indigenous Law Bulletin (UNSW) 18 5(14) 2002
- White J (et al) ‘The cloning of human cells: an Australian response to the scientific issues from an ethical and theological perspective’ in Creation and Complexity Ledger C and Pickard S (eds) ATF Press Hindmarsh SA 2004 p.145
- O’Sullivan D Faith, Politics and Reconciliation Huia Publishers New Zealand 2005 p.109 fn88
- Garrett B What is this thing called metaphysics? Routledge Oxford 2006 p.xi
- West M ‘The Woman with Men’s Business’ in Peterson N, Allen L and Hamby L (eds) The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections Pt IV ‘Transformed Collecting’, Melbourne University Press 2008 pp.553, 554
- Shearmur J ‘Why the “Hopeless War”?: Approaching Intelligent Design’ Sophia Vol 49 No 4 December 2010 p.486
- Barnett L ‘The Process of Law Reform: Conditions for Success’. Federal Law Review March 2011 Vol39 Issue 1 p.167
- Renani Ali Abedi Acknowledgement of advice for ANU PhD thesis ‘Explaining and Evaluating Alasdair McIntyre’s Notion of Constituted Rationalities and Justices’ 20 December 2013 p.5
- Bailey J-S Dust Bowl Palgrave Macmillan 2016 p.317
- Nobbs R St Barnabas’ College and the Melanesian Mission on Norfolk Island The Church of England Norfolk Island 2019 p.2
- Ferns N Australia in the Age of International Development 1945-1975 Palgrave Macmillan 2020 p.215
- Cole J ‘Theological Disputes’ Engage Issue 14 December 2023 p.24