Returning to Australia in 1969, he was appointed as a Research Fellow in the History of Ideas Unit at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Along with books on God as worker and re-envisioning theological education, he wrote and edited others on relating faith to work, leading with spirit, and Christianity in everyday life.
[4] In 2004 a Festschrift was produced in his honour with contributions from fifteen scholars around the world, including Edwin Judge, John Drane, Miroslav Volf and James Dunn.
[5] In 2019, an issue of the journal Zadok Perspectives, containing articles by several Australian christian thinkers was published to celebrate his 80th birthday.
[6] He and Linda have also created several biblically-based resource materials for small groups, and written four books about the contribution of especially women missionaries to the emergence of modern China.
He is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research in England, the international Society for New Testament Studies and, with his wife Linda, the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of Missions and World Christianity.