Andrew McGowan

 
Associate Professor Andrew McGowan
BA(Hons) WAust, BD(Hons) MelbCollDiv, MA, PhD Notre Dame
Warden of Trinity College and Joan F W Munro Lecturer in Theology
 
An Anglican priest, Andrew McGowan has worked in parish ministry and higher education in Victoria, Western Australia and the United States. He studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia, Theology at Trinity, and undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. He has lectured at Harvard and Yale, was Lecturer in NT and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, and Associate Professor of Early Christian History at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was appointed Joan Munro Lecturer and Director of the Trinity College Theological School in 2003, and became Warden of Trinity College in 2007.
 

amcgowan@trinity.unimelb.edu.au
Department Name: 
Office Location: 
Old Warden’s Lodge, Trinity College
Teaching Interests: 
Early Christianity, Liturgical History,Anglicanism
Research Interests: 
Ritual, meals and sacrifice in antiquity, Eucharistic Origins, Early North African Christianity, Contemporary Anglicanism
Postgraduate Supervision: 
Early Christian History, Anglican Theology, Liturgy
Publications: 

 

 .        (edited, with Brian Daley SJ and Tim Gaden), God in Early Christian Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2009)
.        “Jesus Calling: Religion in the Songs of David McComb”, in Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids (Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2009), 117-27
“Truth and Reconciliation in the Church: Theological Perspectives”, St Mark’s Review 205, August 2008 (2), 125-36.
.        “Tertullian and the ‘Heretical’ Origins of the ‘Orthodox’ Trinity”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 14 (2006), 437-457.
.        “Worship and the ‘Mission-shaped Church’”, St Mark’s Review 200 (2006), 36-42.
.        “Food, Ritual, and Power”, in A People’s History of Christianity 2: Late Ancient Christianity (ed. Viriginia Burrus; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005), 145-164.
.         “Rethinking Agape and Eucharist in Early North African Christianity”, Studia Liturgica 34 (2004), 165-176.
.        "The Meals Of Jesus And The Meals Of The Church: Eucharistic Origins and Admission To Communion", in Studia Liturgica Diversa: Essays In Honor Of Paul F. Bradshaw (ed. Maxwell E. Johnson and L. Edward Phillips; Portland, Oregon: Pastoral Press, 2003), 101-115.
.        "Discipline and Diet: Feeding the Martyrs in Roman Carthage”, Harvard Theological Review 96 (2003), 455-76.
.        "New Testament Worship”, "Lord's Supper”, "Agape”, and others, New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship (ed. Paul F. Bradshaw; London: SCM, 2002).
.        Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford, Clarendon, 1999).

 

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