Andreas Loewe

Jost Andreas Loewe (born 27 February 1973) is a German-born Anglican priest in Australia who is the fifteenth Dean of Melbourne, the second-youngest and first German to hold the post.^[1] An academic theologian and music historian, he is also a fellow and lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.^[2]

Life and career

Loewe was born in Munich. He was educated at the United World College of the Atlantic and studied at St Peter's College, Oxford (BA 1995, MPhil 1997, MA 1999^[3]) and Selwyn College, Cambridge where he was Gosden Lay Chaplain (PhD 2001).^[4]

Loewe was ordained in 2001 at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. After a curacy in Upton cum Chalvey from 2001 to 2004, he was appointed associate vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, and chaplain of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, posts he held from 2004 to 2009, during which time he was also a senior member of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.^[5]

From 2009 to 2012, Loewe was chaplain and Gavan Lecturer in Theology at Trinity College (University of Melbourne).^[6] His academic research centres on the history of the English and German reformations and the history of music, in particular in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2011)^[7] and made Rex Lipman Fellow of St Peter's College, Adelaide (2012).^[8]

Loewe was installed as Dean of Melbourne on 13 October 2012.^[9] On 18 December 2012, he officiated at a State Memorial Service to celebrate the life of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.^[10] On 15 December 2013, he conducted the Victorian Commemoration of the life of Nelson Mandela.^[11]

Select memberships

• Council, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
• Chapter, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
• Trustee, Melbourne Anglican Trust Corporation
• Council, University of Divinity, Australia's first specialised university of divinity
• Council, Melbourne Girls' Grammar School
• Commissioner, National Council of Churches in Australia Faith and Unity Commission (2010–12)
• Board Member, Council for Chaplains in Tertiary Education, Victoria (2010–12), accrediting body for all Victorian higher education chaplains
• Council, Trinity College (University of Melbourne) (2009–12)
• Chair of Board, Art beyond Belief, an interfaith arts provider funded by Arts Council England (2004–09)
• Theological Secretary, The Ecumenical Forum for Young Theologians (2001–09)^[12]

Select publications

Scholarly books and book chapters

• Richard Smyth and the Language of Orthodoxy: Re-imagining Tudor Catholic Polemicism, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought XCVI (Leiden: Brill, 2003): ISBN 90-04-12927-8
• "Peter Martyr Vermigli and Richard Smyth’s De Votis Monasticis’, in: Emidio Campi, ed., Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation (Geneva: Droz, 2002), 143-172: ISBN 2-600-00653-2
• "The Oxford Disputation revisited", in: Alfred Schindler and Hans Sickelberger, eds., Die Zürcher Reformation, Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte 18 (Berne: Lang, 2000), 317-326: ISBN 3-906764-38-9

Peer-reviewed publications

• "Why do Lutherans sing? Lutherans, Music and the Gospel in the first century of the Reformation", Church History 82.1 (2013): ISSN 0009-6407
• "Constituting angels and mortals in a wonderful order: George Gilbert Scott Junior’s Sanctuary in St Michael’s Church Cambridge", Ecclesiology Today 42 (2012): ISSN 1460–4213
• "God’s Capellmeister: The Proclamation of Scripture in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach", Pacifica 24.2 (2011), 141-171: ISSN 1030-570X
• "Proclaiming the Passion: Popular Drama and the Passion Tradition in Luther’s Germany", Reformation and Renaissance Review 10.1 (2010), 235-282: ISSN 1462-2459
• "Michaelhouse: Hervey de Stanton’s Cambridge Foundation", Church History and Religious Culture 90.4 (2010), 579-608: ISSN 1871-2428
• "Cambridge’s Collegiate Crisis: King Henry VIII and the Suppression of Colleges, 1546", Renaissance and Reformation Review 11.2 (2009), 139-164: ISSN 1462-2459
• "La Escuela de la Misión Araucana: The Story of the Anglican Mission to Central Chile, 1854-1962", Dutch Review of Church History 84 (2004), 497-522: ISSN 0028-2030
• "Facite quod fieri: Catholic Exegesis during the Council of Trent", Reformation and Renaissance Review 5 (2001), 9-35: ISSN 1462-2459
• "Richard Smyth and the Foundation of the University of Douai", Dutch Review of Church History 79.2 (1999), 142-169: ISSN 0028-2030^[13]

References