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Dr. Andrew Pierce

Assistant Professor (School of Religion)
PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING
      
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Dr. Andrew Pierce

Assistant Professor (School of Religion)
PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING

 piercean@tcd.ie

 3531896 4782


  Ecumenical Ecclesiology   Ecumenical theologies   Nineteenth century religious thought   Religious Fundamentalism   Theology and Experience
Project Title
 Modernity and Modernism: Interpreting the Roots of Religious Crisis
From
October 2008
To
October 2009
Summary
In 1907, Pius X condemned 'modernism,' imposing theological 'integralism' and a restrictive discipline which remained in force until Vatican II (1962-65). After a century, the construction of modernism and anti-modernism merit evaluation. Modernism occurred within a modernity the value of which is debated. This project situates debates from the early twentieth century in the context of current theological contendings with modernity, thus contributing to debate within modernist studies, and to the theological reception of modernity's past.
Funding Agency
IRCHSS
Programme
Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Type
Research Fellowship, Funded Sabbatical
Person Months
12
Project Title
 Towards Theological Engagement with Religious Fundamentalism
From
2007
To
2008
Summary
Resurgent religiosity has attracted widespread attention from social and political scientists, but not - in any significant way - from those engaged in Christian systematic theology. As a preparation for an in-depth study of fundamentalism's theological significance, this project will involve a scoping study of the field, culminating in an international consultation in Dublin to make available the initial results.
Funding Agency
St Stephen's Green Trust, Irish School of Ecumenics Trust

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
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
member, Board of Governors, Church of Ireland College of Education 2011-18
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Societas Oecumenica 2001 present
European Academy of Religion 2018 present
American Academy of Religion
Irish Theological Association
Andrew Pierce, Theological Experience in aTime of Transition: Newman, Sabatier and Catholic Modernism, Sank Ottilien, EOS Editions of Sankt Ottilien, 2026, Notes: [This book is currently being printed, more details will be available in the coming weeks.], Book, IN_PRESS
Friedrich von Hügel, George Tyrrell and the 'Experience' of Modernism in, editor(s)Claus Arnold, Mark D. Chapman and Christian Still , Friedrich von Hügel (1852-1925) After a Hundred Years: Historical and Theological Perspectives on a European Religious Intellectual, Leuven, Bibliotheca Ephermeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 2026, [Andrew Pierce], Notes: [Final page run not yet known], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Andrew Pierce, Baron von Hügel - Modernist and Mystic, Search, 48, (3), 2025, p213 - 221, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ecumenical Theology: A work in Progress in, editor(s)Ethna Regan and Alan J. Kearns , Critical Questions in Contemporary Theology: Essays in Honour of Dermot A. Lane, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2024, pp239-249 - [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Andrew Pierce, The Background, Impact and Legacy of Baptism, Eucharist and and Ministry, One in Christ, 56, (2), 2024, p307 - 319, Notes: [Published version of opening keynote of the joint annual meeting of Irish Theological Association and British and Irish Catholic Theological Association], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Modernity and Anti-Modernism 1850-1910 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, pp299 - 317, [Andrew Pierce], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Andrew Pierce, (Post-?) Koloniale Koinonia: Erbe und Vision des Anglikanismus, Ökumenische Rundschau, 72, (3), 2023, p332 - 344, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Andrew Pierce, Celebrating Imperfect Communion, Review of Ecumenical Studies, 14, (1), 2022, p64 - 73, Notes: [Special Issue " Eucharistic Sharing: Bridge Towards Unity-Barrier To Unity?" Guest Editor Thomas O'Loughlin], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
'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, 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

  


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
My initial research focused on how theology appeals to notions of experience, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and combining historical with systematic theological emphases. I have retained an interest in this topic, and continue to explore the ways in which Protestant and Catholic theology articulated its understanding of experience, particularly in the writings of the French Reformed scholar Auguste Sabatier, the Catholic saint and scholar John Henry Newman, and two of the writers condemned as modernists in the early twentieth century, Alfred Loisy and George Tyrrell. As well as being a frequent contributor to meetings of the Société Internationale pour l'Études Sur Alfred Loisy (SIEAL), I am also working as part of an international group preparing a handbook on aspects of the Modernist Crisis, in which I will be responsible for sections dealing with the development of that crisis in the English-speaking world. In the specifically ecumenical sphere I am particularly interested in developing the theological significance of place and belonging as themes in decolonial ecumenical theologies. A PGT module on Nature Grace and Place has been designed as a testing board for these concerns with a view to a monograph on this topic in the next 3 years, and facilitated by my next period of scheduled research leave. This topic has also been workshopped successfully as part of the World Council of Churches' project on Mission from the Margins.