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Andrew Pinsent | |
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| Born | Andrew Charles Pinsent 1966 (age 58–59) [1] |
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| Religion | Christianity (Roman Catholic) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Eleonore Stump |
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| Discipline | Theology |
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Fr. Andrew Pinsent (born 1966) is professor of theology and philosophy at the Athenaeum of Ohio [2] in Cincinnati,Ohio,and a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England. Until 2024,he was Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, [3] part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. [4] [5] He was also a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College,Oxford. [6]
A physicist by training,Pinsent was involved in the DELPHI project at CERN, [7] and co-authored 31 of the collaboration's publications. A focus of his current research is the application of insights from autism and social cognition to "second-person" accounts of moral perception and character formation.[ citation needed ]
In 2017,he signed a document along with a number of other clergy and academics labeled as a "Filial Correction" of Pope Francis. [8]
Pinsent has a degree in physics and a D.Phil. in high-energy physics from Merton College,Oxford. He also has three degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome,and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University.
A member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics and a tutor of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham,Pinsent has been interviewed for various media,including the BBC [9] and EWTN, [10] on issues of science and faith. He has also written for the Catholic Herald , [11] who identified him as a prominent young Catholic. [12] His most recent book is The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics:Virtues and Gifts (2012). Besides academic publications,he is a co-author of the Evangelium catechetical course and the Credo,Apologia, and Lumen pocket books.
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