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Dr. Andrew Pierce

Assistant Professor (School of Religion)
PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING

 piercean@tcd.ie

 3531896 4782


Research Tags

  Ecumenical Ecclesiology   Ecumenical theologies   Nineteenth century religious thought   Religious Fundamentalism   Theology and Experience

Research Projects

 Modernity and Modernism: Interpreting the Roots of Religious Crisis
 Towards Theological Engagement with Religious Fundamentalism

Representations

Details Date
Societas Oecumenica, The European Association for Ecumenical Research; President 2010-2012 2010-1012
Member of, and Consultant to, International Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) 2009-2019
member, Board of Governors, Church of Ireland College of Education 2011-present
Standing Committee, Societas Oecumenica 2006-2010
member, The Church of Ireland Bishops' Advisory Commission on Doctrine
member, Theology and Social Justice Working Group (Church of Ireland, Republic of Ireland) 2000-03
Member, Anglican-Methodist Covenant Council 2005-08
member, Board of Management, APCK 2005-11

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Societas Oecumenica 2001 present
European Academy of Religion 2018 present
American Academy of Religion
Irish Theological Association
Modernity and Anti-Modernism in, editor(s)Series editors James E Kelly and John McCafferty Volume IV editor Susan O'Brien and Carmen Mangion , The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol IV 1830-1913, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
'Stop, Stop and Listen': Changing the Church by Listening to its Life in, editor(s)Vladimir Latinovic and Mark D Chapman , Changing the Church: Transformations of Christian Belief, Practice and Life, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp269 - 277, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Andrew Pierce, The Place of the Ecumenical Church, One in Christ, 54, (1), 2020, p2 - 12, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
The Authority of Dissent in, editor(s)Paul Avis, Angela Berlis, Nikolaus Knoepffler and Martin O'Malley , Incarnating Authority: A Critical Account of Authority in the Church, Munich, Herbert Utz Verlag, 2019, pp231 - 244, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Andrew Pierce, The Place of the Church, Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Religion, Bologna, 2018, 2018, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Andrew Pierce, Being Human, East and West: The Buffalo Statement 2015, Search, 41, (1), 2018, p21 - 28, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ecumenics as an Intercultural Theology: In Search of Repentant Reconfigurings of Authority, Tradition and Experience in, editor(s)John O'Grady, Cathy Higgins and Jude Lal Fernando , Mining Truths: Festschrift in Honour of Geraldine Smyth OP - Ecumenical Theologian and Peacebuilder, Sankt Otilien, Editions of Sankt Otilien, 2015, pp43 - 58, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The Ecumenical Church of Vatican II in, editor(s)Dermot A. Lane , Vatican II in Ireland, Fifty Years on: Essays in Honour of Padraic Conway, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015, pp195 - 217, [Andrew Pierce], Notes: [Studies in Theology, Society and Culture, volume 12], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Keynote - 'Intra-Christian Dialogue, Interreligious Dialogue and Common Ethical Concerns: Can one be separated from the other?' in, editor(s)Andrew Pierce and Oliver Schuegraf , Den Blick weien: Wenn Oekumene den Religionen begegnet/Dialogue Inside-Out: Ecumenism Encounters the Religions, Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2014, pp99 - 120, [Jude Lal Fernando], Notes: [This a revised and updated version of a keynote address given at the17th Academic Consultation of the Societas Oecumenica, the European Society for Ecumenical Research, held in Belfast from 23-28 August in 2012.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Ecumenics as the Pursuit of Equilibrium in, editor(s)Andrew Pierce and Oliver Schuegraf , Dialogue Inside-Out: Ecumenism Encounters the Religions, Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2014, pp19 - 32, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Avis, P., Berlis, A., and Knoepffler, N.(ed.), Incarnating Authority, Jena, Germany, 6-9 September 2017, 2020, Proceedings of a Conference, IN_PRESS
Communion where convictions divide in, editor(s)Ginnie Kennerley and Richard O'Leary. With a preface by Judge Catherine McGuiness , Moving Forward Together: Homosexuality and the Church of Ireland, Belfast, Changing Attitudes Ireland, 2012, pp45 - 54, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Where are we now? The Contesting of Biblical Authority in Historical Perspective in, The Authority of Scripture: A Report of the Church of Ireland Bishops' Advisory Commission on Doctrine, Dublin, Church of Ireland Publishing, 2006, pp9 - 51, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Church in Society Committee, Social Justice and Theology Group (Republic of Ireland), Local Partnerships: A Theological and Pastoral Reflection, Dublin, Church of Ireland Publishing, 2006, 2006, Report, PUBLISHED
The Church of Ireland Church in Society Committee, Alcohol in the Lives of Young People, Dublin, Church of Ireland Publishing, 2005, Report, PUBLISHED
Andrew Pierce, A Shadow over our Lives, Review of After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust, by Richard Harries , The Irish Catholic, (3 November), 2005, p20 , Review, PUBLISHED
The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion: A Sectarian Text in, editor(s)Charles Kenny , Are the Thirty-Nine Articles Sectarian, Belfast, Catalyst, 2003, pp10 - 15, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow 2008-09
Malcolm Bowie Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Christ's College, Cambridge, April-June 2009
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, UCD International Centre for Newman Studies 2008-09
Bishop Moorman Scholarship, St Deiniol's Library 1995
Non-foundation scholarship, Trinity College Dublin 1988-1993
Elrington Prize 1990

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Religion and the Experience of Modernity; Religious Anti-Modernism or Fundamentalism; Roman Catholic Modernism; Nineteenth Century Religious Thought; Ecumenical Ecclesiology; Auguste Sabatier's philosophy of Religion; theological interpretations of place