Joshua Searle (BA, MA (Oxon), MTh)
Joshua Searle is a recipient of a Long Room Hub scholarship and is currently writing a PhD thesis in the School of English at TCD under the supervision of Dr Crawford Gribben. His thesis is entitled, 'The Hermeneutics of Crisis: Evangelicals, Apocalyptic Eschatology and the Northern Ireland Troubles'.
He has studied history at Oxford (BA and MA) and theology in Prague (MTh). He was born and raised in Northumberland in the far north of England and has lived for spells in Prague, Germany, the Ukraine and Russia. He has a wide range of academic interests, including Germanic and Slavic languages, baptistic and ecumenical theology, critical theory and hermeneutics and English literature, particularly William Blake and John Milton. His website can be found at: http://apassionforthepossible.wordpress.com/
Publications include:
J. Searle, 'Romantismus, Fantasie a Utopie: Teologické Zhodnocení’, in Křesťanství a Romantismus, Ivana Noble and Jiří Hanuš (eds.) (CDK: Brno, 2011)
J. Searle, ‘The Radical Imperative of Otherness: A New Monastic Vision of Being the “Other” in a Context of Cultural Exile’, in Being the Other, ed. F. Porter (Belfast: Irish Peace Centres, 2011)
J. Searle, ‘The Sermon on the Mount: a Realistic Resource for Christian Discipleship and Spiritual Formation?’ Journal of European Baptist Studies 9 (January, 2009)