Rate My Professor Graham Redding

Dr. Graham Redding serves as the Douglas Goodfellow Lecturer in Chaplaincy Studies within the Theology Programme at the University of Otago, situated in the School of Arts and Division of Humanities. Beginning his professional journey with training as an accountant in Auckland, Redding transitioned to theological studies at Otago University. He spent fifteen years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, including serving as the national Moderator in 2008 and 2009. Subsequently, he earned a PhD in Theology from King's College London, with his dissertation exploring prayer and the priesthood of Christ in the Reformed tradition. This work was published as the monograph Prayer and the Priesthood of Christ: In the Reformed Tradition by T&T Clark in 2003. Prior to his current role, which he assumed in 2021, Redding was Principal of the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership in Dunedin until 2015 and then Master of Knox College, a University of Otago-affiliated residential college, from 2015 to 2021.