Archbishop Peter Frederick Carnley
1937-
The Most Reverend Dr Peter Carnley
Portrait of Peter Carnley, former Anglican Archbishop of Perth and Primate of Australia, at an Anglican Schools Commission dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth. Photo credit:
Wikimedia Commons ~ 6 Sept. 2019
IARCCUM (Member, 2001-2008) and
ARCIC-II (Co-Chair, 2003-2004)
Peter Carnley was born in New Lambton, New South Wales. He trained for ordination at St John’s College, Morpeth, and was ordained deacon in 1962 and priest in 1964. He studied in Australia at Trinity College, Melbourne, and in England at Emmanuel College and St John’s College, Cambridge, and became warden of St John’s College at the University of Queensland, as well as lecturer in theology at the University of Queensland, before becoming a bishop.
Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of Western Australia (1981-2005), Primate (2001-2005), Anglican Church of Australia
A member of IARCCUM from 2001-2008, Archbishop Carnley was asked to take over as Anglican co-chair of ARCIC II when Archbishop Frank Griswold stepped away following Bishop Gene Robinson’s consecration. Archbishop Carnley shepherded the Commission through the last plenary meeting in Seattle in February 2004 and the final stages of publishing its report Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ.
Books authored
- The structure of resurrection belief (1993, c1987) Oxford, [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press ISBN 0198267568
- The yellow wallpaper and other sermons (2001) Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins ISBN 1863717994
- Reflections in glass: trends and tensions in the contemporary Anglican Church (2004) Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins ISBN 1863717552
and a contributor to:
- Lost in translation? Anglicans, controversy and the Bible: perspectives from the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia (2004) edited by Scott Cowdell & Muriel Porter, Thornbury, [Victoria]: Desbooks ISBN 0949824402
- A Kind of Retirement, More Sermons from Archbishop Peter Carnley, Morning Star Publishing, Melbourne, 2016.
- Resurrection in Retrospect: A Critical Examination of the Theology of N. T. Wright, Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock, Eugene OR, 2019
- The Reconstruction of Resurrection Belief, Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock, Eugene OR, 2019