| Originally from Britain, Pearse did his master’s and
doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford, having previously
taken his B.A. in the University of Wales, and his D.M.S. (business
and management) at the Polytechnic of Wales. |
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Currently living in the U.S. and Croatia, Meic
Pearse is Professor of History at
Houghton College, New York, where he leads the
‘East Meets West’ Honors Program, which introduces students to
the study of three major world civilizations: the
Catholic/Protestant West, Eastern Orthodoxy and (in southeastern
Europe and the Middle East) Islam.
For more than a decade, Pearse taught Church History
at the London School of Theology, for most of that time as head of
its B.A. in Theology programme. He is also Visiting Professor of
Church History at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek,
Croatia, where he has taught annually since 1995.
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On a more occasional basis, he has also taught at Regent’s Park
College, Oxford; University of Newcastle; SS. Cyril and
Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia; the Jesuit Faculty,
Zagreb; Osijek University, Croatia; Timişoara University,
Romania; Emanuel University, Oradea, Romania; ETS, Prague; St.
Bonaventure University, New York; the Pedagogical University,
Ryazan, Russia — as well as at numerous other colleges, at the
Spring Harvest festival in Britain, on board Operation
Mobilisation’s ship Doulos and, in May 2004, teaching Russian
Church History to leaders at the Rosa Church, Moscow. His work
with student ministries and individual churches has taken in a
wide variety of places in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia,
Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Germany, Russia, the U.K. and U.S..
Meic Pearse is married to Ann, who is a nurse. They have a son,
Ieuan, and two daughters, Bethan and Rhian.
He was involved for over a decade as part of a team
establishing a new church in Swansea, where he met his wife, and
where two of their three children were born. In between, Pearse
has made pipe valves in a German factory, been a tax collector
for a local authority, taught Business Studies in a Jewish
school and History and Economics in a Quaker institution. In his
spare time, he enjoys not watching television.
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