Andrew McGowan
Major teaching areas:
- Early Christian thought and practice
Research Interests:
- Ancient liturgical practice;
- asceticism;
- sacrifice;
- food and meals;
- pre-colonial Asian and African Christianity
Publications:
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'“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.
- “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/Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship
(ed. Paul F. Bradshaw; London & Louisville: SCM/Westminster John
Knox, 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)
Administration:
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Warden, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
- Member of the Doctrine Commission, Anglican Church of Australia
- Canon, St Paul's Cathedral
Community & Professional Service
- North American Patristic Society
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Board of Directors, St Michael's Grammar School, East St Kilda
- Board Member, Hughes-Cheong Lectureship Trust, Melbourne
Major positions previously held:
- Associate Professor of Early Christian History, Episcopal Divinity
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Lecturer in New Testament and Early Christianity, University of Notre
Dame Australia
- Canon of St George's Cathedral, Perth
- Rector, St Stephen's Forrestfield with St Thomas' High Wycombe, Anglican
Diocese of Perth.
- President, Christian Conference of Asia
- Chairperson, National Anglican Youth Unit
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