Publisher of the following books:
Reviewing The Times For The Transfiguration of Human Knowledge Order & Disorder in Organisations
Other books written by Peter Rudge
Ministry & Management
L'Église à l'heure du management
Management in the Church
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BIOGRAPHYPeter Frederick Rudge was born in Tasmania, Australia in 1927.After five years at the Burnie State High School, he studied at the University of Tasmania from 1945 to 1948 for his Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Diploma of Public Administration. Then he studied theology at the college of the Society of the Sacred Mission, St. Michael's House, Adelaide, South Australia from 1949 to 1953. He was awarded a Licentiate in Theology by the Australian College of Theology. He was ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Australia and served in the parishes of the Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn for ten years. His career also included being the first Principal Lecturer in Administration at what is now the University of Canberra. He has held executive positions in such fields as education, social welfare & charitable work. He was a book reviewer for many years for The Canberra Times; some 80 reviews of about 100 books, together with topical comment, may be published in due course. After a year at St Augustine's College in Canterbury, he went on to Leeds University where, in 1966, he was awarded his Doctorate in Philosophy. A revised edition of his thesis was published in 1968 as Ministry and Management, later translated into French. On the basis of that qualification, he worked for some years as a management consultant in several churches in many parts of the world under the aegis of CORAT (Christian Organisations Research & Advisory Trust),based in Canterbury, later in Oxford and also in Nairobi. Reflections on his experiences were published in 1976 as Management in the Church. On returning home, he set up CORAT in Australia in 1977. For a time he continued similar consulting work in Fiji and Papua New Guinea as well as in Australia. But the main development was the establishment of a professional practice as a registered tax agent, specialising as a taxation counsellor and adviser to ministers and churches. He has continued his scholarly interest by producing and publishing in 1990, Order and Disorder in Organisations, a book in which he indicated the social science foundations of his earlier ecclesiastical writing and their relevance to a wide range of subjects - psychology, physiology, sociology, epistemology - as well as to his enduring focus on administration. A list of all his writings on theology and management and how they can be accessed is set out on the web page bearing that title. In 1999, he completed his major life-fulfilling work The Transfiguration of Human Knowledge. In seeking to indicate the ways in which the whole corpus of scholarship might proceed in the 21st Century, he looked at all the main areas of learning, explaining what they are, listing the biblical references to them - then recording and analysing the turning points, the critical episodes, the notable encounters between theology and all these subjects in the course of the past 2000 years,the best known being those involving Galileo and Darwin. His writing and publishing activities exrended to other areas of attainment. With a business partner and horticulturist Tom Cahill, he published a book on landscaping: One Hundred Hints on Designing Home Gardens. As a Level 2 coach, he has written and published a series of books on the sport of Croquet, including the scientific aspects of the game. Since 1990, he has lived in semi-retirement at Tweed Heads on Australia's Gold Coast. He has continued his scholarly interests: he has ensured the preservation of earlier writings by putting them onto CD's and he has produced new works, as indicated on the "Theology and Management" web page. See especially his 2006 book Reviewing The Times For The Canberra Times where he provides further biographical material about how he came to be involved with the wide range of subjects dealt with in the reviews. The list can be found on "The Canberra Times" web page. CORATPostal Address: P.O. Box 476, Coolangatta, Queensland 4225, AustraliaTelephone: 61 7 5599 4722 Facsimile: by arrangement Email: patnpeter@omcs.com.au |
Publisher of the following books: The Basics of Refereeing in Croquet The Basics of Competitions in Croquet Croquet: Variations on a Theme Body Language in the Laws of Croquet
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