Brian Rosner

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| honorific-prefix = The Reverend

| name = Brian Rosner

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| birth_name = Brian Steven Rosner

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1959|06|17}}

| birth_place = Western Sydney, Australia

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| alma_mater = University of Sydney
Dallas Theological Seminary
University of Cambridge

| occupation = {{hlist|Academic|theologian}}

| discipline = Biblical studies

| sub_discipline = New Testament and Pauline Theological studies

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| workplaces = University of Aberdeen
Moore Theological College
Ridley College

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Brian Steven Rosner (born 17 June 1959) is an Australian theologian and academic who was the Principal of Ridley College (Melbourne) between 2012 and 2024.{{cite web| url = https://tma.melbourneanglican.org.au/2024/03/brian-rosner-to-finish-up-as-ridley-college-principal/#:~:text=The%20Reverend%20Dr%20Brian%20Rosner%20has%20announced%20he%20will%20finish,on%20the%20Ridley%20College%20website. | title = Brian Rosner to finish up as Ridley College principal | author-link= | date = 20 March 2024 | website = The Melbourne Anglican | access-date = 11 April 2024}} He has authored many books including Known by God: A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity amongst others.{{cite web| url = https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/spiritofthings/brian-rosner/9014532 | title = Reverend Brian Rosner | author-link= | date = 2018 | website = Australian Broadcasting Corporation | access-date = 23 December 2023}}

Rosner grew up in Western Sydney to an Austrian-Jewish father and to an Australian mother in the 1960s.{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |title=How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward Is Not the Answer |date=17 May 2022 |publisher=Crossway |page= |isbn=978-1-4335-7815-1 }} Between 1978 and 1981, he completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney.{{cite web| url = https://www.ridley.edu.au//wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CV_Brian-S-Rosner_2019final.pdf | title = Brian Steven Rosner | author-link= | date = 2019 | website = Ridley College | access-date = 21 December 2023}} From there, Rosner studied at the Dallas Theological Seminary in the United States, where he focused on ancient literature. After this period in the mid 1980s, he completed his education at the University of Cambridge, culminating in a PhD of divinity in 1991.

Rosner began his career at the University of Aberdeen as a lecturer in New Testament studies between 1991 and 1999. However, he later returned to Australia, with the Macquarie University as a senior lecturer in Biblical studies for a number of years. Rosner then began work at the Moore Theological College in Sydney between 2003 and 2012.

In July 2012, the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Philip Freier appointed him to be the Principal of Ridley College, who also ordained him as a deacon.{{cite web| url = https://www.ridley.edu.au/about-us/ridley-people/faculty/brian-rosner/ | title = Brian S. Rosner | author-link= | date = 2023 | website = Crossway | access-date = 22 December 2023}}{{cite web| url = https://acl.asn.au/new-principal-for-ridley/ | title = Brian Rosner named as new Principal of Ridley | author-link= | date = 1 February 2012 | website = Anglican Church League | access-date = 23 December 2023}} Since moving to Melbourne, Rosner has written various books and articles which have featured in The Age and The Australian newspapers which have discussed the Christian faith in modern, secular times.

==Selected works==

Rosner has completed a variety of works over the past few decades that include:{{cite web| url = https://www.crossway.org/authors/brian-rosner/ | title = Brian Rosner | author-link= | date = 2022 | website = Ridley College | access-date = 22 December 2023}}{{cite web| url = https://www.everand.com/author/711071013/Brian-S-Rosner | title = Brian S. Rosner | author-link= | date = 2023 | website = Everand | access-date = 23 December 2023}}

=Books=

{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |title=How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward Is Not the Answer |date=17 May 2022 |publisher=Crossway |page= |isbn=978-1-4335-7815-1 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=Known by God: A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity |date=12 September 2017 |publisher=Zondervan |page= |isbn=9780310499824 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=Mending a Fractured Church: How to Seek Unity with Integrity |date=17 November 2015 |publisher=Lexham Press |page= |isbn=978-1577996866 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God: 31 |date=19 August 2013 |publisher=InterVarsity Press|page= |isbn=978-1844748914 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor |date=21 September 2007 |publisher=Eardmans |page= |isbn=9781467426350 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=How to Get Really Rich: A Sharp Look at the Religion of Greed |date=15 October 1999 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |page= |isbn=0851116493 }}
{{cite book |last1=Rosner |first1=Brian |author-mask=3 |title=Paul, Scripture, and Ethics: A Study of 1 Corinthians 5-7 |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |page= |isbn=9789004332751 }}