Rev Dr Ockert Meyer was born and grew up in South Africa. He studied theology at the University of Stellenbosch and did post-graduate studies in South Africa and the Netherlands.

The title of his doctoral thesis was Between Silence and Ecstasy: The spirituality of KH Miskotte in the Context of Mysticism and Charismatic spirituality. Ockert has served as a minister for the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town, and at various Uniting churches in Sydney and Canberra.

Ockert's research interests include:

• theological dynamics of preaching
• reformed theology
• hermeneutics; especially Jewish theology as hermeneutical lens
• art and theology

Ockert has been the founding editor of a preaching aid lectionary series (with Ian Nell), published a number of books and papers, and supervised numerous doctoral students, recently on such topics as the Pentecostal imagination and retrieval of history, Rolf De Heer and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.