Senior Lecturer – Theology and Public Issues
BA(VUW), BD(Melbourne College of Divinity), PhD(Otago)
Wellington Anglican Centre / Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Mob +64 27 602 3500
Email andrew.shepherd@otago.ac.nz
Dr Andrew Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer in Theology and Public Issues. His working life has alternated between academic teaching roles and leadership responsibilities in Christian and non-profit organisations. After his initial degree in English Literature and History he completed post-graduate studies in theology. His doctoral thesis offered a theological ethic of hospitality in conversation with French philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida.
Teaching
- CHTH224 Theology and the Environment
- CHTH324 Theology and the Environment (Advanced)
- CHTH231 Christianity, War and Violence
- CHTH331 Christianity, War and Violence (Advanced)
- CHTH320 Public Theology and Social Justice
- CHTH420 Public Theology and Social Justice (Advanced)
Preferred areas of supervision
I am available to supervise in any of the areas listed under Main research interests below and open to considering supervising or co-supervising any research project around the broad areas of Christian social ethics, ecological theology, and/or political theology.
Main research interests
- Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics
- The Ethics and Practice of Hospitality
- Theology and Phenomenology
- Theology and Economics
- Peace Theology
- Contemporary theologies of social transformation – including social movements and neo-monasticism
Current postgraduate students
- Emma Gray (PhD) The formative relationship between the Eucharist and other practices of hospitality via Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice