Master
Department of Systematic Theology

Very Rev. Dr Terence (Terry) Curtin is the Master of Catholic Theological College and is the President of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He is a member of the Department of Systematic Theology, and lectures in Sacramental Theology and Fundamental Theology. He is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne., and is the parish priest of St Brigid's, Greythorn.

The undergraduate units he teaches include:

• CD209/309 Introduction to Sacramental Theology; Baptism and Confirmation
• CD227/327 Jesus Christ: Revealer of the Triune God B [Mariology]
• CD319 The Sacrament of Orders: History and Theology

The postgraduate units he teaches include:

• CD419 The Sacrament of Orders: History and Theology

• CD450 Theological Synthesis

Terry Curtin has a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Urban University (Rome), a Bachelor of Education from the University of Melbourne and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).

He is Secretary to the Forum of Australian Catholic Institutes of Theology (FACIT) and was President of FACIT (2003-05).  Before coming to CTC he was Head of the School of Theology (Victoria) within Australian Catholic University (1992-2002), where he taught units in fundamental theology, christology, ecclesiology and sacramental theology at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  He has also taught postgraduate units in sacramental theology and theological hermeneutics at Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong.  He was a Critical Colleague in the development of the core religious education documents for the dioceses of Ballarat, Sale, and Sandhurst, and the archdiocese of Hobart.  He is a magistral chaplain within the Order of Malta.

His main academic interests are Theological Hermeneutics and Sacramental Theology.