Elizabeth Smith

SMITH, Elizabeth Joyce. b. Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 27 February 1956. The daughter of Churches of Christ parents, she was educated at Euroa High School and Monash and Melbourne Universities (1974-78); Trinity College Theological School (the Anglican member of Melbourne’s United Faculty of Theology), where she took a BD (1986); and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. There she completed her PhD in 1995; it was published as Bearing Fruit in Due Season: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Bible in Worship (Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1999). She was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1987, and priested in June 1993. She has served in the Anglican...