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 tertiary 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 formerly a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, and was Associate Professor of Early Christian History at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before returning to Trinity. His scholarly work on the social and intellectual life of early Christian communities has been published in leading journals in the USA and Europe, and in his book Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999)

Teaching

• Canon and Controversies (UFT)
• Theological Issues of the Early Church (UFT)
• Early Alexandrian Christianity (UFT)
• Introduction to Ministry Formation (TCTS - DipMin)

Administrative

• Warden of Trinity College
  
• Member of Senior Staff and Senior Management Team, Trinity College.
• Member of Senatus and Executive, UFT
• Member of the Melbourne College of Divinity

Church and Community

• Member of the Board of Directors, St Michael's Grammar School
• Member of the General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia
• Member of the Hughes-Cheong Lectureship Trust
• Member of the Advisory Board, Institute of Spiritual Studies, St Peter's, Eastern Hill

Research Interests

• Eucharistic origins, food and meals in antiquity
• Early North African Christianity
• Anglican Theology
  

Publications

• “Tertullian and the ‘Heretical’ Origins of the ‘Orthodox’ Trinity”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 14 (2006), forthcoming.
• “Worship and the ‘Mission-shaped Church’”, St Mark’s Review 200 (2006), forthcoming.
• “Food, Ritual, and Power”, in A People’s History of Christianity 2: Late Ancient Christianity (ed. Viriginia Burrus; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005), 145-164.
• “Dangerous Eating? Jesus, Inclusion, and Communion”, Liturgy: Journal of the Liturgical Conference 20/4 (2005), 13-20.
• “Offerings, Sacrifice, and Votives: Christianity”, Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), 409-10.
• “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).
• "Marcion's Love of Creation”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 9:3 (2001) 295-311.
• "The Inordinate Cup: Issues of Order in Early Eucharistic Drinking”, Studia Patristica 35 (2001) 283-91.
• "'Is There a Liturgical Text in this Gospel?': The Institution Narratives and Their Early Interpretive Communities”, Journal of Biblical Literature 118 (1999) 77-89.
• Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford Early Christian Studies; Oxford, Clarendon, 1999).
• "Naming the Feast: The Agape and the Diversity of Early Christian Ritual Meals”, Studia Patristica 30 (ed. E. Livingstone; Leuven: Peeters, 1997) 314-18.
• "Valentinus Poeta: Notes on theros”, Vigiliae Christianae 51 (1997) 158-78.
• "Ecstasy or Charity: Augustine with Nathanael Under the Fig Tree”, Augustinian Studies 27 (1996) 27-38.
• "'First Regarding the Cup': Papias and the Diversity of Early Eucharistic Practice”, Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 46 (1995) 569-73.
• "Eating People: Accusations of Cannibalism against Christians in the Second Century”, Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (1994) 413-42.
  

Recent Presentations, Sermons and Addresses

• “Is the Bible Enough?” Sermon for the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul, St Paul’s College, University of Sydney, July 29th, 2006.
• “Christianity in a Postmodern Empire: Rival, Ally or Coping Mechanism?” A Dialogue with NT Wright, Malvern, March 23rd 2006.
• “Burying Jesus Again for the First Time: The Tomb of Jesus in History and Imagination”, UFT Commencement Lecture, Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, March 10th 2006.
• “Our selves, our souls and bodies”, lecture recorded for ABC Radio National “Encounter”, broadcast November 20th 2005.
• “Christ the King”, sermon for 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Christ Church, South Yarra, November 20th 2005.
• “Stranger than Fiction: Truth and Fantasy in Literature and Theology”, address for the annual dinner of Anglicans Together, St Alban’s, Epping, NSW, October 14th 2005.
• “Holy Things for Holy People: The Mission-Shaped Church and its Culture of Worship”, Anglo-Catholic Forum lecture at St James’ Church, King St, Sydney, July 16th 2005.
• "Prayer and Protest”, sermon at the Keble Celebration Mass, Australian Church Union, July 14th 2004.
• "'Power, Presiding, And Presbyters: The Challenges Of "Lay Administration",' Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Clergy School, February 19th 2004.
• Phillip Harris Memorial Address, Christ Church, Brunswick: "The New Puritans: Reconsidering Lay Presidency”, February 1st 2004.