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Fr. Andrew Pinsent (born 1966) is professor of theology and philosophy at the Athenaeum of Ohio 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, part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He was also a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

A physicist by training, Pinsent was involved in the DELPHI project at CERN, 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.

Education and career

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 and EWTN, on issues of science and faith. He has also written for the Catholic Herald, who identified him as a prominent young Catholic. 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.

See also

• List of Roman Catholic cleric-scientists

References

1. "Cosmic purpose and the question of a personal God". Bibliography of the Study of Religion. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
2. "Athenaeum of Ohio, Faculty & Staff Directory>Father Andrew Pinsent
3. "Dr Andrew Pinsent", Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.
4. "Science and Religion", Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.
5. "Dr Andrew Pinsent - Research Director - Personnel". Ian Ramsey Centre. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
6. "Fr Andrew Pinsent". Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
7. "DELPHI Notes". CERN. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
8. BBC: The Big Questions: Is there evidence for God?. YouTube. 15 January 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
9. EWTN Live - Evangelium media course - Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ with Fr. Andrew Pinsent. YouTube. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
10. "What the Church has given the world". Catholic Herald. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
11. O'Regan, Mary (25 August 2011). "CatholicHerald.co.uk » Meet ten amazing young Catholics". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

External links

• Fr. Pinsent's Website
• Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

• Living people
• 20th-century British Roman Catholic priests
• British physicists
• Catholic clergy scientists
• 1966 births
• People associated with CERN
• Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
• Saint Louis University physicists
• 21st-century British Roman Catholic priests