Dr. Matthew Tan

Matthew John Paul Tan received his doctorate in Political Theology at the Australian Catholic University in 2010. His doctoral thesis was entitled "Bodies of Christ in Seas of Change: The Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Politics and Practice in the Conditioning of 20th Century Roman Catholic Responses to Violence".

He has studied Law, International Relations and History at the University of Queensland, as well as Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he was a Russell Berrie Fellow in Interreligious Studies. He has both lectured and published works in Theology and International Relations.

His main research interests focus on integrating Christian missiology and ecclesiology with postmodern cultural and political theory. He has written on worship and political change, the politics of "reading the signs of the times" and the politics of evangelisation. He is currently working on two projects, one on the redemption of cyborgified culture and another linking prayer with the production of ecclesial social sites.

He also runs the blog "The Divine Wedgie" which explores the Church's negotiations with contemporary culture and politics.