Peter Rollins
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Peter Rollins (born Belfast, 1973) is the co-ordinator of the experimental collective Ikon. Ikon describes itself as iconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing and engages in what it calls provocative acts of theodrama and 'transformance art'. Ikon has been widely associated with the movement known as emerging church.
Rollins is also a philosophy lecturer and writer who specialises in various aspects of continental philosophy, phenomenology and emerging church theology. He is currently a research associate with Trinity College Dublin
[edit] Personal background
He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast (graduating with a BA Hons in Scholastic Philosophy, an MA in Political Theory and Social Criticism and a PhD dealing with Post-Structural theory).
[edit] Publications
- How (Not) To Speak Of God (SPCK, 2006), which aims to re-envisage faith in the postmodern world, moving away from dogmatic certainties and towards an appreciation of provisionality, fragility and fragmentation.
- The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church beyond Belief (Forthcoming 2008)
