Visiting Staff
The Revd Doug Baker, BA, MDiv
Peace and Reconciliation
His area of expertise is in peace-building and the churches in Ireland, conciliation and mediation, and ministry in a divided society. His special research area is the engagement of the Churches in peace-building in Ireland.
David Brown, MA (Mgt), BSc, Community Youth Work, Cert
Youth Studies
David Brown is Youth Ministry Co-ordinator with the Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD). Before this, he worked as Youth Officer in the Diocese of Canterbury in the Church of England.
Margaret Daly-Denton, BA, B.Mus, MTh, PhD, LTCL
Biblical Studies
Margaret Daly-Denton holds a BA and a BMus from the NUI, an MTh (Liturgy) from SPC Maynooth, and a PhD in Biblical Studies from TCD. She is the author of several scholarly articles on liturgy and New Testament and her book, David in the Fourth Gospel: The Johannine Reception of the Psalms was published in 2000. An organist and an internationally published composer of liturgical music, she also served for over twenty years on ICEL (International Committee on English in the Liturgy). She has taught in TCD and The Milltown Institute and is currently a writer for the distance learning programmes of The Priory Institute. Her current research interests are the psalms and the New Testament origins of Christian liturgy.
Mark Duley MMus, ARCO
Pastoral Liturgy
Mark Duley is Artistic Director of Pipeworks, Chorusmaster to the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, Organist of St Nicholas' Collegiate Church Galway, and pursues a busy freelance career both in Ireland and abroad as organist, conductor, teacher and adjudicator.
The Revd Wilfrid Harrington, OP, STM, LSS
Biblical Studies
Dr Harrington is an Irish Dominican, Professor of Scripture at the Dominican Studium, Tallaght, and Senior Lecturer at Milltown Institute of Theology. He is the author of numerous books on Old Testament and New Testament studies.
Eamon McElwee, MA, MPS, HDE, MICT, MIITD
Pastoral and Practical Theology
Mr McElwee is an accredited counsellor, supervisor and trainer in private practice. He is former National Training Director of ACCORD, the Catholic Marriage Counselling Service. He lectures on counselling, marriage and supervision of counselling and group work on various training courses throughout the country. He works as a psychotherapist with couples and individuals in the Surgery, Strand Street, Skerries.
The Revd Canon W. J. Marshall, BA, BD, PhD
Anglicanism
Dr Marshall has been by turns a theological teacher in India, a university chaplain at TCD, a rector in the diocese of Dublin, and, until his recent retirement, Vice-Principal of this college. His academic interests include the work of Richard Hooker and the development of Anglican theology. He has published two successful devotional books.
Kenneth Milne, MA, PhD
Church History
Dr Milne is a former Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education. He is the official historiographer for the Church of Ireland, and has edited the recently published history of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Gillian O’Brien BA, MA, PhD
Church History
Gillian O’Brien was awarded a BA and an MA from University College Dublin and a PhD in history from the University of Liverpool. She has held academic posts in UCD and in St Patrick’s College, DCU, and was recently a Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her academic interests include eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and Irish History, particularly Georgian Dublin and London, and Irish-America in the late nineteenth-century. Her books, Georgian Dublin and A Splendid Banishment: Viceroys in Ireland 1789-1801, will be published in 2008.
The Revd David Smith, MSc, BPhil, BD, STL, MA, STD, PhD
Ethics
Prof. Smith is Visiting Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and invited lecturer in Trinity College and Dublin City University. He is also involved as an Ethics Consultant with such groups as CIRCA Healthcare Consulting, The Haughton Institute, Bon Secours Health System, Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary Services, the Mercy University Hospital, the Council for Bioethics and the Medical Ethics Subcommittee of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. He is a member of a number of Research Ethics Committees in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The Revd Anne Taylor, BSc, BTh, MA, CPE
Pastoral and Practical Theology
Anne has had more than ten years of parochial experience in Dublin, including two years as chaplain in the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, where she is currently responsible for training students for the ordained ministry. Anne received her Clinical Pastoral Education [CPE] at St John of God’s, Stillorgan. She is also Children’s Ministry Officer for the Sunday School Society for Ireland, and has developed specialist interests in children’s and adolescents’ bereavement, as well as in marriage counselling.
Trinity College Staff
Lesley Grant, BA, PhD
Biblical Studies and Biblical Languages
Dr Grant received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 1996. She teaches in the Church of Ireland Theological College as well as in Trinity College, and St Catherine's College of Education. Her research interests include state formation in the ancient Near East, legal traditions in Israel and other ancient Near Eastern states, the social status of women and the sociological study of ancient Israel.
James Mackey
Systematic Theology
Professor Mackey is Thomas Chalmers Professor of Theology at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Professor, Trinity College Dublin.
He has had a distinguished academic career, and is the author or co-author of numerous books. He has recently published The Scientist and the theologian on the origin and ends of creation (2007), and Christianity and creation: the essence of the Christian faith and its future among religions (2006).
Andrew D H Mayes, MA, PhD, LittD, MRIA, FTCD
Biblical Studies
Professor Mayes is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Hebrew. He graduated from the University of Dublin (TCD) in Hebrew and Semitic Languages, and obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University and LittD from Dublin University. His chief research interests are in the Hebrew Bible and in early Israelite history and religion. He has published a number of books and articles, including Israel in the Period of the Judges, Deuteronomy: A Commentary, and The Old Testament in Sociological Perspective
Benjamin Wold, BS, MA, PhD
Biblical Studies
Dr Wold holds a PhD from the University of Durham where he was also a Teaching Fellow specialising in New Testament and Early Judaism. He has also held the post of Alexander von Humboldt-fellow at Tübingen University, Theological Faculty (Germany).
See http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/staff/