Peter Rollins is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 writer, lecturer, theologian, and philosopher who is associated with the emerging church movement and postmodern Christianity

Postmodern Christianity

Postmodern Christianity is an outlook of Christianity that is closely associated with the body of writings known as postmodern philosophy. Although it is a relatively recent development in the Christian religion, some Christian postmodernists assert that their style of thought has an affinity with...

. He is also the founder of the experimental collective Ikon

Ikon

Ikon can mean:* An alternate spelling of icon* , Journal of Iconographic Studies* Ikon Asean, a recent singing competition between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines* Ikon , an Australian dark wave group...

. Ikon describes itself as iconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging and failing and engages in what it calls theodrama and 'transformance art'.
Rollins specialises in various aspects of continental philosophy

Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy, in contemporary usage, refers to a set of traditions of 19th and 20th century philosophy from mainland Europe. This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and...

, phenomenology and emerging church

Emerging Church

The emerging church is a Christian movement of the late 20th and early 21st century that crosses a number of theological boundaries: participants can be described as evangelical, Protestant, Catholic, post-evangelical, anabaptist, adventist, liberal, post-liberal, reformed, charismatic,...

 theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

. He is currently a research associate with Trinity College Dublin and works for the Olson Foundation.

Educational background

He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, graduating with a BA in Scholastic Philosophy, an MA in Political Theory and Social Criticism, and a PhD in Philosophy, dealing with Post-Structural theory.

Books dealing with Rollins' Thought

• What Would Jesus Deconstruct By John Caputo (Baker Academic, 2007)

• Toward A Hopeful Future By Phil Snider and Emily Bowen (Pilgrim Press, 2010)

• Curating Worship By Jonny Baker (Seabury Books, 2011)

Selected publications

• How (Not) To Speak Of God
  How (Not) To Speak Of God
  How To Speak Of God is a non-fiction work by Peter Rollins, the co-ordinator of an emerging church group called Ikon. Influenced by Ikon services, the book aims to re-envisage faith in the postmodern world, moving away from dogmatic certainties and towards an appreciation of provisionality,...
  
  (Paraclete/SPCK, 2006)

• The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church beyond Belief (Paraclete/SPCK 2008)

• The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales (Paraclete/SCM, April 2009)

• Insurrection: To Believe is Human, to Doubt Divine (Howard/Hodder and Stoughton, October 2011)