Dr Andrew Cameron-Mowat
Lecturer in Liturgy
Email: a.cameron-mowat@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4229
Biography
Education:
M.A. in English Language and Literature and Medieval History, University of St. Andrews, 1980
M.A. in Philosophy, University of London, 1984
M.Div. (with distinction) in Theology, Weston School of Theology, 1991
Th. M. (with distinction) in Theology, Weston School of Theology, 1992
S.T.L., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, California, May, 1998
Ph.D. in Liturgy, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1998
Dissertation: "The Influence of Yves Congar on the Liturgy"
Ministry:
Assistant to the Diocesan Director of Music, Clifton Cathedral, England, 1984-85
Founder and director of the Weston Choir, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989-91
Diocesan Director of Music, Diocese of Lancaster, England, 1992-3
Director of Music, Sacred Heart Parish, Blackpool, England, 1992-93
Director of Music, St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA, 1997-8
(Please see pdf file listing the liturgical music previously directed: (.pdf) )
Teaching:
Full-time teaching in RE and English at St. Ignatius College, Enfield (Comprehensive): 1985-88
"The History of the Liturgy" at Living Theology Summer School, New Hall, Chelmsford, 1992 and 1993
"Ecclesiology through the Ages" at Living Theology Summer School, New Hall, Chelmsford, 1994
"The Shape of the Liturgy" at Jesuit Living Theology, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, 1998
"Liturgy and Ecclesiology" at Living Theology Summer School, Ushaw College, Durham, 1998 and 1999
Core Course at Living Theology Summer School, Edinburgh, 2001
"Issues in liturgy and preaching" at Jesuit Living Theology, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, 2002
"The Art of the Presider" at SSG Summer School, New Hall, Chelmsford, 2002
Course at University of Notre Dame, London Programme (1998-2000):
"Knowing God through Liturgy"
Deacon training at Wonersh, Surrey: 2004 -
"The Year of the Eucharist" at Living Theology Summer School, Edinburgh, 2005
"The Popes and the Liturgy" at Living Theology Summer School, Edinburgh, 2006
Meetings:
Delegate of the Lancaster Diocese at the National Liturgical Conference, Birmingham, England, 1993
Attended the meetings of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 1994 - 2001: 1996 (presented paper, "Beauduin and Congar: Liturgy and Ecclesiology"), 2001 (presented paper, "Liturgical Study Guide"), Convenor of Liturgical Theology Seminar: 1998 - 2000.
Attended meeting and enrolled as member of Societas Liturgica, Dublin, August 1995
Attended meetings of Societas Liturgica, Kottayam, India, August 1999; Santa Clara, California, 2001; Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2003
Committee Member and organist for inaugural meeting of Jesuit Liturgists, Rome, June 2002
Presenter of the J. D. Crichton Memorial Lecture, Clifton Cathedral, November, 2003
Current teaching
Introduction to Rahner (BA PRE)
Introduction to Liturgy (BD, BATS)
Modern Theologies of Liturgy (MA)
The Liturgical Movement (MA)
Symbol and Ritual (MA)
Liturgy and Sacraments: Initiation (MA)
Liturgy and Sacraments: Reconciliation and Anointing (MA)
Research Interests
Current trends in liturgical theology and sacramental theology.
Publications
English translation of the 1st Lateran Council in Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Alberigo and Tanner, eds. (Georgetown University Press, 1990)
"Anton Baumstark's Comparative Liturgy" in Questions Liturgiques, Vol. 76/1, 1995
"Educating the Assembly" in Liturgical Ministry, Fall, 1995
"Theological Trends: Liturgical Theology" in The Way, October 1995
Introduction on Romano Guardini in Dwight Vogel, ed., Primary Sources of Liturgical Theology (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2000)
Study Guide for Liturgy, External BD (University of London Press:2001)
"The Presence of Christ in the Presider" in Liturgical Ministry, Winter, 2002
"The Art of the Presider" in Music and Liturgy, February 2002
Various articles in P. Bradshaw, ed., New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship (SCM Press, 2002)
"Liturgy: from Trent to Vatican II" in New Catholic Encyclopedia [2nd edition, September, 2002]
"Polarisation and Liturgy" in The Pastoral Review, October 2004
Liturgy and Renewal: Participation, Celebration and Inculturation" in The Pastoral Review, July/August 2006, 3 - 8
Sacramentum Caritatis: an analysis" in The Pastoral Review, Vol. 3. nr. 4 (July/August 2007), 45-49