Andrew Mcgowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mcgowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgowan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOWAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Notre Dame Australia 19 Mouat Street, Fremantle, Western Australia 6160 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sacrificial Knowing
Cyprian of Carthage is the most fulsome and direct user of sacrificial language in relation to Christian worship and organisation up to his own time, even though his community experienced persecution under the emperor Decius via a decree of universal sacrifice. Cyprian’s De lapsis and his Letter 63 both use common knowledge about sacrificial ritual shared between Jews, Christians, and other Romans to make more specific points in controversies ove…
A Missing Sacrament? Foot-washing, Gender, and Space in Early Christianity
Although the story recounted in John 13 has often been taken to suggest a communal foot-washing practice existed in some Christian communities, the actual evidence for foot-washing in earliest Christianity suggests not a communal ritual, but women and particularly widows washing the feet of prisoners and others confined and in need. This custom seems to have waned across the third and fourth centuries as expectations of gender roles, liturgical p…
Anglicanism and the Fathers
Anglicanism from the time of the Reformation has been characterized by a persistent interest in the Fathers of the church which joins authorities as diverse in date and disposition as Cranmer and Pusey or Jewel and Newman. While both the methods of reading and the conclusions drawn from considering patristic sources have varied greatly, Anglicans of different tendencies have tended to value the Fathers such as Augustine both as representing a Cat…
The Food of the Therapeutae
If the Therapeutae really did exist, and if they shared their observer and interpreter Philo of Alexandria’s preference for intellectual treasure over the dross of sense-perception, they might have been expected to set their minds on higher things than food. 1 Yet the meals of the community, food included, are central to Philo’s description in his work De Vita Contemplativa . These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This proce…
Apostolic succession
Early Christians shared their Jewish and other contemporaries' concern for continuous tradition from authoritative figures of the past. Although belief in Jesus changed existing traditional claims, Christians quickly sought to establish the authenticity of their beliefs, sacred writings, and especially their structures of leadership, in reference to the first followers of Jesus known as “apostles”. The idea of a succession that stemmed from the a…
God in Early Christian Thought
While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued, the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope, seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology …
God in early Christian thought
Dangerous Eating
This article emerged from a longer study, “The Meals of Jesus and the Meals of the Church: Eucharistic Origins and Admission to Communion,” in, Maxwell E. Johnson and Edward Phillips (eds.), Studia Liturgica Diversa: Essays in Honor of Paul F. Bradshaw (Portland, OR: Pastoral Press, 2004), 101–115. Notes R. J. Karris, Luke: Artist and Theologian (New York: Paulist, 1985), 70. From Richard Fabian and Scott King, “Richer, Not Dumber! The Key to Par…
Discipline and Diet
Although few Christians were likely to suffer the most violent consequences of persecution under the Roman Empire, the experiences of those imprisoned, tortured, or killed were significant far beyond the lives of the individuals concerned. These living martyrs took on a significance that was important for the whole of Christian identity, becoming spiritual patrons dispensing grace, or exemplars of an alternative mode of life
Ascetic Eucharists. Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals
The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact the evidence suggests great diversity in its conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. Eucharistic meals involving cheese, milk, salt, oil, and vegetables are attested, and some have argued that even fish was used. The most significant exception to usin…
Valentinus Poeta
Saint Hippolyte rapporte dans sa Refutatio Omnium Haeresium un extrait de poesie, intitule Moisson, qu'il attribue au gnostique Valentin, un Egyptien du second siecle de notre ere. S'appuyant sur un recent travail de Christoph Markschies, Valentinus Gnosticus ?, l'A. discute l'authenticite de cette piece et interroge son gnosticisme soujacent. Le texte est publiee dans sa version grecque originale accompagnee d'une traduction anglaise
Valentinus Poeta
Eating People
Christians were accused of a variety of crimes, including cannibalism, during the second century. Since recent anthropological discussions encourage a degree of skepticism when dealing with accusations of cannibalism, this paper considers the charges as instances of "labelling," whereby social relations are expressed using a symbolic stereotype, rather than relying on the traditional explanation of a misunderstanding of eucharistic "body and bloo…
Eating People
Christians were accused of a variety of crimes, including cannibalism, during the second century. Since recent anthropological discussions encourage a degree of skepticism when dealing with accusations of cannibalism, this paper considers the charges as instances of "labelling," whereby social relations are expressed using a symbolic stereotype, rather than relying on the traditional explanation of a misunderstanding of eucharistic "body and bloo…
Eating People
Christians were accused of a variety of crimes, including cannibalism, during the second century. Since recent anthropological discussions encourage a degree of skepticism when dealing with accusations of cannibalism, this paper considers the charges as instances of "labelling," whereby social relations are expressed using a symbolic stereotype, rather than relying on the traditional explanation of a misunderstanding of eucharistic "body and bloo…
Valentinus Poeta
Saint Hippolyte rapporte dans sa Refutatio Omnium Haeresium un extrait de poesie, intitule Moisson, qu'il attribue au gnostique Valentin, un Egyptien du second siecle de notre ere. S'appuyant sur un recent travail de Christoph Markschies, Valentinus Gnosticus ?, l'A. discute l'authenticite de cette piece et interroge son gnosticisme soujacent. Le texte est publiee dans sa version grecque originale accompagnee d'une traduction anglaise
Valentinus Poeta
Ascetic Eucharists. Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals
The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact the evidence suggests great diversity in its conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. Eucharistic meals involving cheese, milk, salt, oil, and vegetables are attested, and some have argued that even fish was used. The most significant exception to usin…
Discipline and Diet
Although few Christians were likely to suffer the most violent consequences of persecution under the Roman Empire, the experiences of those imprisoned, tortured, or killed were significant far beyond the lives of the individuals concerned. These living martyrs took on a significance that was important for the whole of Christian identity, becoming spiritual patrons dispensing grace, or exemplars of an alternative mode of life
Dangerous Eating
This article emerged from a longer study, “The Meals of Jesus and the Meals of the Church: Eucharistic Origins and Admission to Communion,” in, Maxwell E. Johnson and Edward Phillips (eds.), Studia Liturgica Diversa: Essays in Honor of Paul F. Bradshaw (Portland, OR: Pastoral Press, 2004), 101–115. Notes R. J. Karris, Luke: Artist and Theologian (New York: Paulist, 1985), 70. From Richard Fabian and Scott King, “Richer, Not Dumber! The Key to Par…
God in Early Christian Thought
While the diversity of early Christian thought and practice is now generally assumed, and the experiences and beliefs of Christians beyond the works of great theologians increasingly valued, the question of God is perennial and fundamental. These essays, individually modest in scope, seek to address that largest of questions using particular issues and problems, or single thinkers and distinct texts. They include studies of doctrine and theology …
God in early Christian thought
Apostolic succession
Early Christians shared their Jewish and other contemporaries' concern for continuous tradition from authoritative figures of the past. Although belief in Jesus changed existing traditional claims, Christians quickly sought to establish the authenticity of their beliefs, sacred writings, and especially their structures of leadership, in reference to the first followers of Jesus known as “apostles”. The idea of a succession that stemmed from the a…
The Food of the Therapeutae
If the Therapeutae really did exist, and if they shared their observer and interpreter Philo of Alexandria’s preference for intellectual treasure over the dross of sense-perception, they might have been expected to set their minds on higher things than food. 1 Yet the meals of the community, food included, are central to Philo’s description in his work De Vita Contemplativa . These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This proce…
Anglicanism and the Fathers
Anglicanism from the time of the Reformation has been characterized by a persistent interest in the Fathers of the church which joins authorities as diverse in date and disposition as Cranmer and Pusey or Jewel and Newman. While both the methods of reading and the conclusions drawn from considering patristic sources have varied greatly, Anglicans of different tendencies have tended to value the Fathers such as Augustine both as representing a Cat…
A Missing Sacrament? Foot-washing, Gender, and Space in Early Christianity
Although the story recounted in John 13 has often been taken to suggest a communal foot-washing practice existed in some Christian communities, the actual evidence for foot-washing in earliest Christianity suggests not a communal ritual, but women and particularly widows washing the feet of prisoners and others confined and in need. This custom seems to have waned across the third and fourth centuries as expectations of gender roles, liturgical p…
Sacrificial Knowing
Cyprian of Carthage is the most fulsome and direct user of sacrificial language in relation to Christian worship and organisation up to his own time, even though his community experienced persecution under the emperor Decius via a decree of universal sacrifice. Cyprian’s De lapsis and his Letter 63 both use common knowledge about sacrificial ritual shared between Jews, Christians, and other Romans to make more specific points in controversies ove…
Philosophy (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Theology (7 works) · Early Christianity (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Classics (4 works)