Dr Anthony Carroll SJ
Email: t.carroll@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4226
Biography
I was born in Liverpool 11 May 1965. Originally being drawn to science I studied biochemistry and physiology at Sheffield University. Pretty quickly it became apparent to me that I was not in the right place. On completing my Bsc, I spent a year working in the inner-city of Liverpool in youth work and social work. I joined the Jesuits in 1987.
My training in the Jesuits has taken me to many places and given me the privilege of meeting an extraordinary amount of inspiring people.
- 1986-1987 Social Work in the inner city of Liverpool.
- 1987-1989 Jesuit Novitiate, Birmingham England and Georgetown Guyana.
- 1989-1993 Community Work in Central Manchester (Drug Service Work).
- 1993-1995 Drug Therapist in Proyecto Hombre, Bilbao, Spain.
- 1996-1998 President of EJIF (European Jesuits in Formation).
- 1999 Ordained Catholic Priest, Liverpool.
- 1999-2003 Assistant Priest in St. Leonhard’s Church, Frankfurt am Main.
- 2003-2005 President of European Jesuits in Social Sciences.
- 2004- Associate Director Heythrop Institute of Religion, Ethics and Public Life and lecturer in philosophy and theology at Heythrop College, The University of London
The Jesuits have also put me through a rigorous intellectual training:
Visiting Student Manchester University in Philosophy and Social Science 1989-1991.
M Phil Philosophy (with distinction) Manchester University 1993.
Certificate in Drug Counselling, Proyecto Hombre, Madrid, Spain, 1995.
License Canonique (Summa Cum Laude) First Cycle, Sacred Theology, Centre Sèvres, Paris, France, 1998.
4th Year Sacred Theology, Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt, 1999.
PhD Philosophy University of Frankfurt, Germany, “Secularisation in History and Social Theory”, with Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, December 17, 2003.
Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Eduction, UCL, October, 2006-
At present, I am an associate director of The Heythrop Institute For Religion, Ethics and Public Life and lecture in both philosophy and theology. I currently live with Jesuits from all five continents in training for ministry.
Current Teaching
Christian Ministry and Contemporary Culture, Winter Term 2005-2006.
Introduction to the History of Philosophy, Spring Term 2005-
Belief and Unbelief, Spring Term, 2007-
Research Interests
I have just written a book on Max Weber entitled Protestant Modernity: Weber, Secularisation and Protestantism, University of Scranton, 2007, which argues that Weber’s account of modernity was set within a Protestant framework. This arises out of my research interest to look at other trajectories to and through modernity than those traditionally considered. I have also co-authored, On The Way to Life, CES, 2005 with Dr. James Hanvey SJ, which presents Catholic education within a sacramental framework.
I am also working with Dr. James Sweeney CP on a sociological project employing the heuristic idea of a Catholic Modernity to consider religious identity in Late-Modernity. This will be published as part of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group Publication with Ashgate in 2008.
I am also writing a fuller account of Sacramental Imagination with James Hanvey and further developing my systematic project of formulating a Catholic account of modernity. Having done my PhD at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, I continue to be interested and write on The Frankfurt School and will be publishing an article on the Habermas-Ratzinger exchange in the Heythrop Journal.
Other Interests
I love football with a passion. As a schoolboy I played for Liverpool Boys and secretly am still waiting for a phone call from Steve McClaren.
In order to keep myself on standby for the England Team, I play football every Saturday in season on Clapham Common.
I love my friends and they love me, is that an interest?