Andreas Loewe

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Jost Andreas Loewe PhD FRHistS (born February 27, 1973 in Munich ) is an Anglican priest born in Germany in Australia . Loewe is the fifteenth provost of St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne ( Dean of Melbourne ). He is the second youngest and the first German to hold this position.

Loewe is a theologian and music historian, and a fellow and lecturer at the “ Conservatorium of Music ”.

Life

Loewe was taught at the United World College of the Atlantic and studied at St Peter's College in Oxford (BA 1995 MPhil 1997 MA 1999) and at Selwyn College in Cambridge , where he was the "Gosden Lay Chaplain" (PhD 2001).

Career

Loewe was consecrated in 2001 in Oxford Cathedral. After a vicariate in Upton-cum-Chalvey ( Slough ) 2001-2004 he was from 2004 to 2009 pastor (Associate Vicar) at the Church of St Mary the Great and at the same time chaplain at Michaelhouse , Cambridge. At that time he was also a member of the Theological Faculty of the University of Cambridge .

The University Church of St Mary the Great in Cambridge, where Loewe was pastor from 2004 to 2009

From 2009 to 2012 Loewe was Kaplan and Lecturer in Theology (Gavan Senior Lecturer) at Trinity College in Melbourne . His scientific research focuses on the history of the English and German Reformations, in music history above all on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach . He was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society in 2011 and in 2012 was named one of the seven Rex Lipman Fellows at St Peter's College in Adelaide .

Loewe was inducted into the office of Provost of Melbourne on October 13, 2012. In October 2014 he was awarded the officer rank of the Order of Saint John in recognition of his work with the Australian Johanniter Accident Aid .

The St. Paul's Cathedral at the Loewe Dompropst is

Act

Loewe regularly conducts state acts and commemorations at Melbourne's St. Paul's Cathedral. On December 18, 2012, he led the state ceremony for Dame Elisabeth Murdoch . On December 15, 2013, he led the Victoria State Memorial Service for South African President Nelson Mandela . On July 24, 2014, he led a multi-religious memorial service for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 . On August 13, 2014, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury , he presided over the inauguration of Archbishop Philip Freier as Primate of Australia .

He is a committed advocate for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and has repeatedly called on the Australian government to welcome refugees. In a letter to the editor to the Melbourne daily newspaper " The Age " in January 2014, he condemned the Australian refugee policy as "inhuman to those who seek our protection and degrading for all of Australia".

Fonts

  • Richard Smyth and the Language of Orthodoxy: Re-Imagining Tudor Catholic Polemicism. (= Volume 96 of Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ). Brill, Leiden, 2003.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245): a theological commentary. Brill, Leiden, 2014, with a foreword by Nicholas Thomas Wright .
  • Book chapter "Peter Martyr Vermigli and Richard Smyth's De Votis Monasticis". In: Emidio Campi (ed.): "Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation", Geneva, Droz, 2002. pp. 143-172.
  • Book chapter "The Oxford Disputation revisited". In: Alfred Schindler and Hans Sickelberger (eds.): "The Zurich Reformation" (= Volume 18 of "Zurich Contributions to the History of the Reformation"), Bern, Lang, 2000. pp. 317–326.
  • Essay Why do Lutherans sing ?: Lutherans, music, and the Gospel in the first century of the Reformation. In: Church history: studies in christianity & culture , Vol. 82, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2013. pp. 69-89.
  • Essay “God's Capellmeister”: The Proclamation of Scripture in the Music of JS Bach. Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies June 2011 24: 141–171.
  • Article 'Musica est optimum': Martin Luther's Theory of Music . in: Music and Letters 2013.
  • Essay "Proclaiming the Passion: Popular Drama and the Passion Tradition in Luther's Germany." Reformation and Renaissance Review 2010 10.1: 235-282.
  • Article "Michaelhouse: Hervey de Stanton's Cambridge Foundation." Church History and Religious Culture 2010 90.4: 579-608.
  • Article "Cambridge's Collegiate Crisis: King Henry VIII and the Suppression of Colleges, 1546." Renaissance and Reformation Review 2009 11.2: 139-164.
  • Article: "'La Escuela de la Misión Araucana: The Story of the Anglican Mission to Central Chile, 1854–1962." Dutch Review of Church History 2004 84: 497-522.
  • Essay: "Facite quod fieri: Catholic Exegesis during the Council of Trent." Reformation and Renaissance Review 2001, 5: 9-35.
  • Article: "Richard Smyth and the Foundation of the University of Douai." Dutch Review of Church History 1999 79.2: 142-169.
  • Loewe has also written various reviews in the Journal of Theological Studies , the Journal of Reformed Theology and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History , and numerous biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Age: Trinity College chaplain appointed dean of St Paul's
  2. ^ Academia.edu website
  3. ↑ St Peter's College Oxford website: Second youngest ever ( Memento of May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Royal Historical Society website ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ St Peter's College Adelaide website
  6. ^ Anglican Media Melbourne
  7. ^ Australian Gazette
  8. ↑ International Business Times ( Memento of December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Anglican Media Melbourne
  10. ↑ "The World"
  11. ↑ St Paul's Cathedral Website ( Memento of August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ St Paul's Cathedral website ( Memento of July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Letter to The Age , January 18, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Loewe, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewe, Jost Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglican priest
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich