ANDREA HOLLINGSWORTH - Berry College

ANDREA HOLLINGSWORTH
Assistant Professor of Christian Thought
Berry College
Department of Religion and Philosophy
P.O. Box 550
Mount Berry, GA 30149
706-368-6798
ahollingsworth@berry.edu
Research Fellow in Residence
Center of Theological Inquiry
Henry R. Luce Hall
50 Stockton Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
773-699-8370
ahollingsworth@berry.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2012
Constructive Theology
Dissertation (awarded vote of distinction at defense): “The Courage to Attune: The
Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God Within the Context of the
Self-Other Relation”
Dissertation Director: John McCarthy, Ph.D.
Master of Arts, Bethel Seminary, 2005
Marriage and Family Therapy
Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts, Bethel University, 2001
History
Cum Laude
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Christian Thought (2012 – present)
Berry College (Rome, GA), Department of Religion and Philosophy
Teach courses in the areas of theology, biblical studies, and science and religion
Lecturer (2009, 2012)
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Theology
Taught courses in the areas of theology, religious studies, and gender studies
Instructor (2011)
Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ)
Taught course on “Spirituality in Psychology and Theology” in Princeton’s “Science for
Ministry” program
Instructor (2010)
Bethel Theological Seminary (St. Paul, MN)
Taught course in the area of theology and film
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Graduate of Theological Pedagogy Program (2007)
Loyola University Chicago
Spring, 2007
Teaching Assistant
2004-2005
Center for Spiritual and Personal Formation; Bethel Theological Seminary
Teaching Assistant
1998-2000
History Department; Bethel University
SCHOLARSHIP
BOOK
The Holy Spirit (with F. LeRon Shults). “Guides to Theology” Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2008.
ARTICLES
“The Second Person Perspective in the Preface of Nicholas of Cusa’s De visione Dei.” Invited
article for a special edition of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, guest
edited by Eleanore Stump and Andrew Pinsent, on the topic of “The Second Person
Perspective.” Vol. 5, no. 4 (2013): 137-158.
“Simone Weil and the Theo-Poetics of Compassion” Modern Theology 29, no. 3 (July 2013):
203-229.
“Spirituality and Christian Theology.” In New Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, ed. Anne
Runehov and Lluis Oviedo, vol. 4, 2204-2207. Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2013.
“Neurocognitive Readings of Ancient Religious Texts: Methodological Liabilities and
Possibilities.” Journal for Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science 13
(January, 2013): 35-51.
“Relationality, Impossibility, and the Experience of God in John Donne’s Erotic Poetry.”
Anglican Theological Review 94, no. 1 (Winter, 2012): 79-97.
“The Ambiguity of Interdisciplinarity: Negation, Ecstasy, and the Disciplinary Other.” Zygon:
Journal of Religion and Science 46, no. 2 (2011): 461-470.
“Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (As Long as They Submit): Pentecostalism and Gender in
Global Perspective.” With Melissa Browning. In A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and
Social Action in North America, ed. Michael Wilkinson and Steven M. Studebaker, 161-
184. McMaster Divinity College Press; Pickwick, 2010.
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“Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology for a Spirituality of Compassion.” Zygon: Journal of
Religion and Science 43, no. 4 (December 2008): 837-860.
“Spirit and Voice: Toward a Feminist Pentecostal Pneumatology.” Pneuma: The Journal of the
Society of Pentecostal Studies 29 (2007): 189-213.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories & Methods, edited by Allan Anderson,
Michael Bergunder, Andre Droogers, and Cornelis van der Laan, in Religious Studies
Review 37, no. 3 (2011): 184.
Review of The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena, F. Thomas Luongo, in Pro Ecclesia 19, no.
1 (Winter, 2010): 117-119.
Review of The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology
of Creation, Amos Yong, in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 62, no. 3
(2010): 224-226.
Review of Divine Grace and Emerging Creation: Wesleyan Forays in Science and Theology of
Creation, Thomas Jay Oord, in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 62, no. 3
(2010): 224-226.
Review of Transforming Spirituality: Integrating Theology and Psychology, F. LeRon Shults and
Steven J. Sandage, in The Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health 11 (2009): 1-3.
Review of Crucified with Christ: Meditation on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the Medieval
Invention of Psychotherapy, Dan Merkur, in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 37,
no. 2 (2008): 235-6.
Review of Does Christianity Squash Women? A Christian Looks at Womanhood, Rebecca Jones,
in Religious Studies Review, vol. 32, no. 4 (Oct. 2006): 244.
PRESENTATIONS
(Title yet to be determined.) William Witherspoon Lecture in Theology and Science. Talk to be
given at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, May 2015.
“Your Gaze Never Abandons: Nicholas of Cusa’s Mystical Christology and Developmental
Neuropsychology.” Paper presented at the 2013 Ian Ramsey Centre Conference: The
Second-Person Perspective in Science and the Humanities in Oxford, UK, July 17-21,
2013.
“Your Gaze Never Abandons: Nicholas of Cusa’s Christology and Developmental
Neuropsychology.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of
Religion’s Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion in Greenville, South
Carolina, March 15, 2013.
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“Neurocognitive Readings of Ancient Religious Texts: Methodological Liabilities and
Possibilities.” Presentation given at The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future
in Heidelberg, Germany, October 27, 2012.
“The Emotionally Intelligent Professor.” Invited guest lecture for a Loyola University Chicago
seminar (Teaching Pedagogy I) in Chicago, IL, April 27, 2011.
“Eros’ Aporiae: Relationality and Impossibility in the Love Poetry of John Donne.” Paper
presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting; Open and Relational
Theologies Consultation, in Atlanta, GA November 1, 2010.
“Spirituality, Compassion, and the Social Brain.” Plenary address at the New Mexico Association
for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (NMASERVIC) in Santa Fe,
NM, March 4-6, 2010.
“The Emotionally Intelligent Professor.” Invited guest lecture for a Loyola University Chicago
seminar (Teaching Pedagogy I) in Chicago, IL, February 8, 2010.
“The Ambiguity of Transdisciplinarity: Negation, Ecstasy, and the Disciplinary Other.” Paper
presented at the Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality, sponsored by Zygon
Center for Religion and Science and the Hyde Park Religion and Science Society, at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in Chicago, IL, May 1, 2009.
“Negation, Ecstasy, and Otherness in Ethnographic Theology.” Paper presented at the Theology
and Ethnography Consultation at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, March 6, 2009.
“Shults’ Christology and Science: A Synopsis.” Paper presented at the event, “Christology and
Science: Reforming and Transforming, a Roundtable Response.” Sponsored by Hyde
Park Religion and Science Society and Zygon Center for Religion and Science; held at
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in Chicago, IL, October 30, 2008.
"The Ambiguity of 'Spirituality' in Religion and Science." Paper presented at a meeting of the
Hyde Park Religion and Science Society at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in
Chicago, IL, October 15, 2008.
“Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology for a Spirituality of Compassion.” Paper presented at
the annual Metanexus Institute conference in Madrid, Spain, July 13-17, 2008.
“Intuition and Attunement: Aristotelian Epistemology and Interpersonal Neurobiology in
Dialogue.” Paper presented at the Wesleyan Philosophical Society at Duke University in
Durham, NC, March 13, 2008.
“Psychological Factors in Postfoundationalist Rationality.” Paper presented at the Society for the
Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology at Duke University in Durham, NC, March
13, 2008.
Respondent for Gifford Lecture Panel on “God and Science.” Panelists included J. Wentzel van
Huyssteen, Ralph McInery, and Michael Ruse. Loyola University in Chicago, IL,
October 23, 2007.
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“Doing Theology with Open Eyes.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary
Community Life Gathering in St. Paul, MN, May 8, 2007.
“Spirit and Voice: Towards a Feminist Pentecostal Pneumatology.” Paper presented at the Society
for the Study of Theology Annual Conference (Feminism and Theology Seminar) at
Girton College in Cambridge, England, March 25, 2007.
“Ecstasy and Empowerment: New Directions in Feminist Pneumatology.” Paper presented at the
Gannon Center Women’s Lecture Series in Chicago, IL, November 8, 2006.
“The Existential Anxiety of Learning: Stages and Elements in a Seminarian’s Journey of
Transformational Education.” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion
Annual Meeting; Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Group, in Philadelphia,
PA, November 20, 2005.
“Integrated Learning.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary Community Life
Gathering in St. Paul, MN, February 14, 2005.
“Doing Therapy with Urban American Indian Families.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel
Theological Seminary class (Families in Context: Gender, Class and Culture) in St. Paul,
MN, December, 2004.
PRESIDING AND JUDGING
Presided over student paper session C at the Fourth Annual Student Symposium on Science and
Spirituality at Zygon Center for Religion and Science in Chicago, IL, October 21, 2011.
Judged paper session entitled “Revisiting the Old Problems of Violence and Abuse” at Loyola
University Chicago’s 3rd Annual Graduate/Alumni Interdisciplinary Research
Symposium in Chicago, IL, April 10, 2010.
Judged paper session entitled “New Approaches: Women and Ethics” at Loyola University
Chicago’s 3rd Annual Graduate/Alumni Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in
Chicago, IL, April 10, 2010.
Presided over session entitled “Reforming the Doctrine of God by F. LeRon Shults,” at the
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting; Evangelical Theology Group in
Chicago, IL, November 1, 2008.
Discussion leader for the film “The Power of Forgiveness” at an official meeting of the Hyde
Park Religion and Science Society at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago,
IL, May 2, 2008.
Presided over “Theology, Philosophy and Science” session at the annual meeting of the Society
for Pentecostal Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC, March 14, 2008.
Presided over session 2B at the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Philosophical Society at Duke
University in Durham, NC, March 13, 2008.
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AWARDS, HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Recipient of a full-time, in-residence Research Fellowship for the academic year at the Center of
Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey.
2013 - 2014
Winner of a $500.00 grant from Berry College’s Bonner Center for Community Engagement to
support “Hot Topics” – a pedagogical initiative linking theological learners at Berry College with
religious communities in the local (Rome, GA) area.
January, 2013
Winner of “Science and Religion” essay contest for young scholars, with attendant invitation and
all-expenses paid trip to the conference “The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future” at
the University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany).
October, 2012
Winner of Loyola University Chicago’s Advanced Doctoral Fellowship, an award intended to
provide support to Ph.D. students who have demonstrated excellence in all aspects of graduate
study and are at the beginning stages of their dissertation. The fellowship includes a stipend and
a tuition award.
August, 2010 – May, 2011
Third place winner of the Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality’s essay context
(sponsored by Zygon Center for Religion and Science and Hyde Park Religion and Science
Society).
May 1, 2009
Recipient of the Dr. Karl J. Karlson and Dr. Karl E. Karlson Memorial Scholarship, an award
provided annually to a Bethel Seminary alumnus/a who is pursuing further graduate study
July, 2008
Winner of a 2008 Loyola University Chicago Graduate Student Advisory Council Academic
Funds Committee Award for Academic Excellence
April, 2008
Selected as official representative of the Hyde Park Religion and Science Society (HPRSS) at the
Metanexus conference on “Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approaches to
Personhood,” in Madrid, Spain.
July 13-17, 2008
Full Tuition Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago
2006-2009
Summa Cum Laude, Bethel Theological Seminary
2005
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SERVICE AND COMMITTEES
Guest Peer Reviewer for the academic journal, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Fall, 2013
Guest Peer Reviewer for the academic journal, Modern Theology
Spring, 2013
Served on Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Berry College
2012 - 2013
Served on Assistant Chaplain Search Committee, Berry College
2012 – 2013
Provided leadership for the Religion and Science Reading Group, Berry College (an informal
gathering of 18 professors and students at Berry College who meet weekly to discuss readings in
religion and science)
2012 - 2013
Provided leadership for Hot Topics – a new pedagogical initiative that connects theological
learners at Berry College with adult (and young adult) members of religious communities in
Rome, GA
2012 - 2013
Guest Peer Reviewer for the academic journal, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
Fall, 2012
Served on Graduate School Panel, Berry College
Fall, 2012
Co-Chair of the Hyde Park Religion and Science Society (Student Group of Zygon: Center for
Religion and Science)
2008-2009
Co-Chair of the Religion and Science Reading Group; Loyola University Chicago
2007-2009
Vice President of Professional Development on the Graduate Student Caucus at Loyola
University Chicago
2008-2009
American Academy of Religion Student Liaison for Loyola University Chicago Graduate Students
2007-2008
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RELATED EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Symposium Assistant
2008 – 2009
Zygon Center for Religion and Science; Hyde Park Religion and Science Society; Chicago,
Illinois
• Collaboratively coordinated the first annual graduate student conference in science
and spirituality
• Shared responsibility with co-directors to plan themes, speakers, and conference
schedule
• Communicated with conference participants, respondents, speakers, and conference
planning team
• Performed outreach to local academic and religious communities, including
developing relations with inter-faith and interdisciplinary constituents
• Managed post-conference follow-up and reporting
Individual and Family Therapist
2004-2005
Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Provided mental health services to Native American individuals and families with
open Hennepin County Child Protection cases
• Developed skills in making initial client contact, diagnosis, and treatment plans
• Gained experience working with individuals struggling with depressive disorders,
anxiety disorders, chemical dependency and various environmental stressors (e.g.
homelessness, unemployment, abusive relationships, etc.)
• Participated in and co-led traditional Native American spiritual rituals and
ceremonies
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• The Chicago Group: A thirty-five year old, invitation-only intellectual community of
religionists and scientists, based in Hyde Park, Chicago
• Zygon: Center for Religion and Science
• Hyde Park Religion and Science Society
• The Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion
• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
French
German
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