Biography

Andrea Hollingsworth is a Ph.D. Candidate in Constructive Theology at Loyola University Chicago. She has presented scholarly papers at local, national, and international academic conferences, and has published book reviews and articles in several journals including Zygon, Pneuma, and Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. In addition, she is co-author of The Holy Spirit (with F. LeRon Shults), the latest book in Wm. B. Eerdmans’ “Guides to Theology” series. Andrea has been the recipient of numerous  awards for outstanding scholarly achievement, and currently serves on the steering committee of the Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion. Her dissertation explores ways in which relational ambiguity mediates the experience of God. She and her husband Ryan have been married for ten years, and reside in Chicago, Illinois. 

Contact Information 

Email:
andreabhollingsworth@gmail.com;  ahollin@luc.edu

Telephone:
773.699.8370

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
Constructive Theology
GPA: 3.98                                                                                                           Dissertation Title: “The Courage to Commune: Relationality, Impossibility, and the Experience of God.”
Dissertation Director: John McCarthy
Estimated Completion: Spring, 2011
 

Master of Arts, Bethel Theological Seminary, 2005
Marriage and Family Therapy
Summa Cum Laude
GPA: 3.96

Bachelor of Arts, Bethel University, 2001
History
Cum Laude
GPA: 3.71

Publications

Book

The Holy Spirit (with F. LeRon Shults). “Guides to Theology” Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2008.   

Articles and Book Chapters

"Negation, Ecstasy, and Otherness in Ethnographic Theology." Practical Matters: A Transdisciplinary Multimedia Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology (under review).

"The Ambiguity of Transdisciplinarity: Negation, Ecstasy, and the Disciplinary Other." The Proceedings of the 2009 Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality. Chicago: Zygon Center For Religion and Science (in press).

"Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (As Long as They Submit): Pentecostalism and Gender in Global Perspective." With Melissa Browning. In The Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action in North America, ed. Michael Wilkinson and Steven M. Studebaker. McMaster Divinity College Press; Pickwick (in press). 

“Spirituality and Christian Theology.” New Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, ed. Nina Azari. Springer (in press).

"Karl Rahner.” Revised New Dictionary of Theology, ed. Steve Carter. Inter-Varsity Press (in press).

“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 The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation, Amos Yong, in Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith (forthcoming).

Review of Divine Grace and Emerging Creation: Wesleyan Forays in Science and Theology of Creation, Thomas Jay Oord, in Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith (forthcoming). 

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): 325-6.

Review of Does Christianity Squash Women? A Christian Looks at Womanhood, Rebecca Jones, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 32, no. 4 (Oct. 2006): 244.

Paper Presentations

“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, Chicago, IL, May 1, 2009.

“Negation, Ecstasy, and Otherness in Ethnographic Theology.” Paper presented at the Theology and Ethnography Consultation at Emory University, 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.

“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. 

Panels

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.

Ethics panelist for a Bethel Theological Seminary class (Ethical and Professional Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy) in St. Paul, MN, June 8, 2006.

Invited Lectures

“Spirituality, Compassion, and the Social Brain.” Keynote 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.

“Doing Theology with Open Eyes.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary Community Life Gathering in St. Paul, MN, May 8, 2007.

“Called Into Life: The Creator Spirit.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary class (Systematic Theology III) in St. Paul, MN, June 1, 2006.

“The Holy Spirit and Redemptive Transformation.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary class (Personal Discipleship and Spiritual Formation) in St. Paul, MN, February 21, 2006.

“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.

“Reflections on Gender Dynamics in Personal and Professional Life.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary class (Families in Context: Gender, Class and Culture) in St. Paul, MN, October, 2004.

“Transforming Together: Theological Reflection in Groups.” Invited guest lecture for a Bethel Theological Seminary class (Disciplines of Theological Reflection) in St. Paul, MN, September, 2004.

Presiding

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.

Teaching and Research Experience

Instructor: Spirituality in Theology and Psychology                                             Course to be taught at Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ)              Summer 2011    

Instructor: Movie Theology                                                                                   Course to be taught at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN)                                        Summer 2010

Instructor: Great Christian Thinkers                                                        Undergraduate course taught in the Department of Theology at Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL)                                                                                                     Fall 2009

Completed Theological Pedagogy Program
Spring, 2007
Loyola University Chicago

Research Assistant
August, 2006 – January 2007
Mark A. McIntosh, Professor of Theology, Loyola University Chicago

Research Assistant
August, 2006 – January 2007
Michael Schuck, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

Teaching Assistant                                        
2004-2005
Center for Spiritual and Personal Formation; Bethel Theological Seminary
     
Teaching Assistant                                       
1998-2000
History Department; Bethel University
 

Related Experience 

Graduate Student Symposium Assistant
2008 – 2009
Zygon Center for Religion and Science; Hyde Park Religion and Science Society; Chicago, Illinois

• Collaboratively coordinate the first annual graduate student conference in science and spirituality, sponsored by a grant from the Metanexus Institute  
  
• Share responsibility with co-directors to plan themes, speakers, and conference schedule
• Help with advertising and publicity for the event
• Organize event logistics including speaker travel and reserving facilities
• Manage information flow including budgeting and student paper submissions
• Communicate with conference participants, respondents, speakers, and conference planning team
• Perform outreach to local academic and religious communities, including developing relations with inter-faith and interdisciplinary constituents
• Manage post-conference follow-up and reporting
  

Individual and Family Therapist/Intern                   
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

Awards, Honors, and Scholarships

Third place winner of the Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality's essay contest (sponsored by Zygon Center for Religion and Science and Hyde Park Religion and Science Society).

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 

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

Winner of a 2008 Loyola University Chicago Graduate Student Advisory Council Academic Funds Committee Award for Academic Excellence          April, 2008

Full Tuition Scholarship and Assistantship, Loyola University Chicago
2006-present

The National Dean’s List                                        
2006

Summa Cum Laude, Bethel Theological Seminary
2005

Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges                         2005

Ellen A. Erickson Memorial Scholarship, Bethel Theological Seminary
2004

Barbara Dahl Memorial Scholarship, Bethel Theological Seminary
2003

Ebeneezer Lecture Scholarship, Bethel Theological Seminary
2003

Presidential Award, Bethel Theological Seminary
2002

Professional Affiliations

• Hyde Park Religion and Science Society
• American Academy of Religion (AAR)

• Psychology, Culture and Religion: A Group of the AAR                                

   

Service and Committees

Co-Chair of the Hyde Park Religion and Science Society  (Zygon's Student Group)

2008-2009

Co-Chair of the Religion and Science Reading Group; Loyola University Chicago 

2007-2009

Steering Committee Member of the Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion

2007-Present 

Vice President of Professional Development on the Graduate Student Caucus at Loyola University Chicago                                       

 2008-2009

American Academy of Religion Student Liaison (SL) for Loyola University Chicago Graduate Students 

2007-2008

Participant in Women in Theology, a Graduate Student Reading Group at Loyola University Chicago

2006-2007

Graduation Committee Member;  Bethel Theological Seminary; St. Paul, MN                  

2005

 

Research Languages

French, German 

Computer Literacy

Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher