Lynden Rogers took his BSc in Physics and Maths at Avondale, following up with post-graduate studies at the University of Newcastle. His PhD project involved meteor and atmospheric studies using real-time processing of radar data. He taught Physics and Maths at Avondale for over forty years, heading the Department of Science and Maths for 15 years.
Over his entire Avondale tenure Lynden also either taught into, or solely presented, Avondale’s long-standing unit on Science and Christian Faith. This potentially difficult interface has been his main research interest for the last four decades and he has edited three books within this broad field: Changing Attitudes to Health within Adventist Health and Medicine from 1865 to 2015 (2015), The Biblical Flood: Context and History of Adventist Understanding (2020), and The Age of Life on Earth (2025).
Lynden is married to physiotherapist, Julie, and has three lecturer/teacher children: Lachlan, Cameron and Susan.
Rogers, L. J. (2015). Old universe but young life? Christian Spirituality and Science, 10(1), 6-22. Retrieved from https://research.avondale.edu.au/css/vol10/iss1/1
Bootsman, C. S., Rogers, L. J., & deBerg, K. C. (2015). Infidel geologists! The cultural context of Ellen White's statements on geological science. Christian Spirituality and Science, 10(1), 33-60. Retrieved from https://research.avondale.edu.au/css/vol10/iss1/3
Cameron, P. U., & Rogers, L. (2013). Genetically programmed cell death: Concepts of death and immortality in the age of the genome. Christian Spirituality and Science, 9(1), 32-55. Retrieved from https://research.avondale.edu.au/css/vol9/iss1/3
Rogers, L. J. (2020). The Biblical flood: Context and history of Adventist understanding (2nd ed.). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Rogers, L. (2017). The Biblical flood: The context and history of Seventh-day Adventist understanding. Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Rogers, L., Christian, G., Boddey, K., Morton, J., & Ward, E. (2014). Science for primary teachers (3rd ed.). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale College of Higher Education.
Rogers, L. J. (2020). Responses by Christian scholars to extra-biblical data on the Flood from 1500 to 1860. In L. Rogers (Ed.), The Biblical Flood: The Context and History of Seventh-day Adventist Understanding (2nd ed., pp. 61-114). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Cameron, P. U., & Rogers, L. J. (2015). The western health reform institute. In L. Rogers (Ed.), Changing attitudes to science within Adventist health and medicine from 1865 to 2015 (pp. 1-13). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Rogers, L. (2015). Science: Once rejected by the prophet but now profiting Adventist health?. In L. Rogers (Ed.), Changing attitudes to science within Adventist health and medicine from 1865 to 2015 (pp. 41-76). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Rogers, L. (2017). What a Catastrophe!― Science Abandons Uniformitarianism?. In L. Rogers (Ed.), The Biblical Flood: The Context and History of Seventh-day Adventist Understanding. Paper presented at Avondale College of Higher Education, Cooranbong, 9-10 September (pp. 137-180). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Bootsman, C., Rogers, L., & de Berg, K. (2017). Nineteenth-century Adventist understanding of the flood. In L. Rogers (Ed.), The Biblical Flood: The Context and History of Seventh-day Adventist Understanding. Paper presented at Avondale College of Higher Education, Cooranbong, 9-10 September (pp. 61-94). Cooranbong, Australia: Avondale Academic Press.
Bootsman, C., de Berg, K., & Rogers, L. (2014, December 4-7). A study of the Christian public's engagement with the new geology of the 19th century and its implications for the succeeding centuries. Paper presented at the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group Asian Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
Rogers, L. J. (1994). Through modern physics towards a structure for causality. In H. Rasi (Ed.), Christ in the Classroom. Paper presented at the International Faith and Learning Seminar, Bracknell, Berks, England (pp. 329-339). Silver Spring, MD: Institute for Christian Teaching.
