Greg LockwoodGreg Lockwood grew up in a newspaper family in Natimuk, western Victoria. His mother was Clamor Schurmann's great granddaughter. Greg majored in German and Greek at Adelaide University, then studied education at Melbourne University. Upon graduation rom Luther Seminary, Adelaide (1970), he was called to serve at teachers' colleges and seminaries in Papua New Guinea (1971-1987). He completed a ThD in New Testament and missiology at Concordia Seminary, St Louis (1983). Through the 1990s he was an associate professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, before returning to parish ministry in Australia (Bendigo, Victoria). From 2004 to 2011 he lectured at Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide.

His wife Christine's PhD thesis, The two kingdoms: Lutheran missionaries and the British civilising mission in early South Australia (Adelaide University, 2014), provided Greg with the framework for understanding the Tagebuch. In 2015 he attended a tutorial led by Dr Lois Zweck in the archaic cursive handwriting which Schurmann uses throughout his diaries. Since then, he has been a volunteer at Lutheran Archives, consulting regularly with Lois.

Previously, Greg has presented and been published in the areas of biblical theology and missiology. Read More Read Less