John N CollinsJohn N. Collins studied at the Biblical Institute in Rome and the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem on the eve of the Second Vatican Council. His University of London PhD of 1976 was awarded a Tantur Fellowship in Israel for further research into ministry diakonia). Before retirement, he taught history and theology of ministry at Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne and has been a guest speaker at theological faculties in Germany, Scandinavia and Britain. John is married to Carolyn - both their families going back to Melbourne of the 1850s - with a novelist daughter, a musician son, and three grandchildren. Read More Read Less