Andrew McGowan

Andrew Brian McGowan (born 1961) is an Australian scholar and Anglican priest. He is Dean and President of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School.[1]

Prior to appointment at Berkeley and Yale he was seventh Warden of Trinity College (University of Melbourne) 2007-14, and Joan F.W. Munro Professor of Historical Theology in the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, within the University of Divinity. In Melbourne he was a canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne,[2] and was also a member of the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Education

The son of an Anglican priest, McGowan was born in Melbourne, moving to Perth as a teenager when his father was appointed Rector of Fremantle/Beaconsfield. He attended Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, during which time he contributed to the musical circles that produced rock band The Triffids, then studied classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia (BA 1983), then returning to Melbourne to study theology at Trinity College (BD (Hons) 1986). He served a curacy in Como/Manning before appointment as Rector of Forrestfield in 1988. He then undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States (MA, PhD, 1996), where he was supervised by Harold W. Attridge.

Career

On his return to Australia in 1996, McGowan was associate priest at South Perth, and a canon of St George's Cathedral, Perth while teaching full-time at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor in Early Christian History at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and serving as associate priest at St. James Episcopal Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts), from 2000.[3]

He returned to Trinity College as director of its Theological School in 2003. After serving as acting warden in 2005 and 2006, he was appointed seventh Warden of Trinity College in January 2007. In October 2012, he was elected one of the ten Foundation Professors of the MCD University of Divinity, Australia’s first specialist university.[4] During this time he was a member of the Senatus and Council of the United Faculty of Theology, a member of the Chapter (Canon) at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. a member of the Board of Directors of St Michael's Grammar School, a clerical member of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, on the organising committee of the Hughes-Cheong Lectureship Trust, and served on the Advisory Board, Institute of Spiritual Studies, at St Peter's, Eastern Hill.

In July 2014 McGowan he returned to the United States to succeed Joseph H. Britton in the post of President and Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School and Associate Dean for Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School. He was also appointed J. L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies by the President and Fellows of Yale University from July 2014.

Research

His research interests centre on ancient Christainity, especially the Eucharist, food and meals in antiquity, early North African Christianity and Anglican theology, but has also been a commentator on aspects of higher education and religion in contemporary society, including such forums as the ABC’s The Drum,[5] the news column of the Biblical Archaeology Society called "Bible History Daily" and SkyNews.[6]

Select publications

References

  1. ↑ Andrew McGowan Appointed Dean, accessed 12 Aug. 2014.
  2. ↑ The Cathedral Chapter
  3. ↑ The Australian Anglican Directory 2012 (Oak Park, Vic.: Publishing Solutions, 2012), p. 308.
  4. ↑ "MCD University of Divinity Appoints its First Professors", accessed 1 June 2013
  5. ↑ Contributors to The Drum
  6. ↑ Professor Andrew McGowan discusses the appointment of Pope Francis

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