Andrew Pierce

Biography

Andrew Pierce is an Assistant Professor in Ecumenics, Course Co-Ordinator of the M.Phil. in Intercultural Theology & Interreligious Studies and Head Of Department. He obtained a scholarship, First Class Degree with Gold Medal, and Ph.D. in Trinity College Dublin, where he also held the Elrington Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. Before his appointment to the Irish School of Ecumenics in 2001, Dr Pierce was Lecturer in Church History and Theology at the Church of Ireland Theological College in Dublin. In 2008-09 he was awarded a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship by IRCHSS in order to further his project, ‘Modernity and Modernism: Interpreting the Roots of Religious Crisis.’ Also during 2008-09 he was both a visiting Fellow at the J.H.Newman International Study Centre, UCD, where he delivered the 2009 Newman Lecture, and held a visiting fellowship at Christ’s College Cambridge as a Malcolm Bowie Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Since 2009 he has been a consultant to, and member of, the International Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). Between 2010 and 2012 he was president of Societas Oecumenica, the European Association for Ecumenical Research.

Research Interest

 Theological interpretations of place Nineteenth-century religious thought Ecumenical ecclesiologies Ecumenical theologies Religious fundamentalism