Professor Stuart Piggin has taught history in King’s College, London, Universities of Wollongong, Sydney, and Macquarie, and was Head of the Department of Christian Thought for the Australian University of Theology. In his capacity as Director of the Centre for the History of Christian Thought and Experience at Macquarie University from 2005 to 2016, he supervised 28 doctoral candidates, working principally on areas of Australian religious history and on the application of Classical and Christian thought to the modern world. He co-authored the prize-winning two-volume history of Australian Evangelical Christians, The Fountain of Public Prosperity (2018) and Attending to the National Soul (2020). Acclaimed a ‘masterwork’, they are ‘the fullest account’ yet written on the impact of Christianity on Australian history. The founding president of the Evangelical History Association of Australia, he is a committed Evangelical Anglican, with a special interest in Jonathan Edwards, the Church’s foremost theologian of Revival, and the history of missions. He is the author of a biography of Archbishop Harry Goodhew and has also written major studies of the Australian experience of community disasters. He has been designated ‘the historian of the Australian soul.’