Dr Andrew Pierce
Lecturer in Ecumenics
Andrew is currently conducting research on ‘Towards Theological Engagement with Religious Fundamentalism,’ funded by the St Stephen’s Green Trust and the Irish School of Ecumenics Trust. He is a member of the standing committee of the Societas Oecumenia and of the Council of the Glenstal Ecumenical Conference. He has received an IRCHSS funded sabbatical for 2008-09.
Areas of expertise
Religious anti-Modernism & Religious Fundamentalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, Religion and the Experience of Modernity, 19th Century religious thought, ecumenical ecclesiology, Auguste Sabatier’s philosophy of religion
Modules taught
Education
Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin
M.A. Trinity College Dublin
B.A. Trinity College Dublin
Contact details
Email: piercean@tcd.ie
Direct Tel: +353 (0) 1 260 0531
General Tel: + 3553 (0) 1 260 1144, ext. 115
Fax: +353 (0) 1 260 1158
Select publications
- ‘Re-Imagining Irish Ecumenism,’ Doctrine & Life, 57 (7), p. 2-16, 2008
- ‘Millennialism, Ecumenism and Fundamentalism,’ in Kenneth G.C. Newport and Crawford Gribben, eds., Expecting the End: Millennialism in Social and Historical Context, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006
- ‘Churches and Theology in a Century of Revolution and Reaction,’ in John R. Bartlee and Stuart D. Kinsella, eds., Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Ireland, Dublin: Columba, 2006