Michael Knowles

Michael Knowles is a biblical theologian and writer. He studied philosophy, theology and sociology in Dublin, Poona, Cambridge and London and taught sociology at a London secondary school and the philosophy of religion together with early church history at Crewe FE college. He is a former secretary of the Hackney Trades Union Council and assistant secretary of the London Federation of Trades Councils as well as founder and chairman of the Save the Walthamstow Marshes Campaign (1978-1983; resulting in the marshes being declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest) and a Labour Party councillor on the Congleton Town Council, Cheshire. Now retired, he lives in Cheshire with his wife Jane.