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Mel Thompson (writer)
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| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) England |
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| Website | essexthinker.com |
Mel Thompson (born 1946) is an English writer and philosopher. He was formerly a teacher, editor and A level examiner.
Life and education
Born in 1946, he was educated at King Edward VI School, Chelmsford and King's College London where he received a BD in 1969 (Shelford Prize for Philosophy of Religion; Tinniswood Essay Prize), MPhil (as an external student) in 1973, and a PhD in 1979. He worked for some years as an ordained minister within the Church of England before resigning to work within Religious Education and as a freelance writer. From 1990 to 1998 he was editor of the Religious Education list at Hodder Education.
He is a member of the Society of Authors, London, and was formerly a member and Chair of the Educational Writers Group. He is interested in exploring ways in which new technology can enhance opportunities for writers, particularly with reference to self-publication.
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Of hair loss and neural pathways…
This is a very selective autobiography, concerning only three aspects of my life, one of which may possibly be of interests to readers of this website - or not, of course.
I was a great disappointment to my mother. Heavily pregnant nine months after the 5th Essex Regiment arrived home from the war, she was convinced that I would be a girl, and decided to call me Felicity Elaine. Sadly (for her) I appeared with a willie, so she took her revenge by calling me Melvyn and allowing my curly, ginger hair to grow unchecked.
Twenty years later, I was shorn, but assumed that a white jacket and cravat would be appropriate for my first foreign trip – here snapped on the snowfield below the Jungfraujoch in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, still one of my favourite parts of the world.
Within a few years, student life at the end of the sixties had turned me into more of a hairy philosopher, or mystic, or poet even. Here I sit by a mountain stream contemplating the meaning of life!
Alas, the hairline receded, to leave me with a monastic tonsu
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Formerly a teacher and editor, Mel Thompson is a freelance writer, with a particular interest in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. His introductions to the many aspects of philosophy are popular and accessible, and have been translated into fifteen other languages. His website (https://essexthinker.com) provides information on all his books, FREE notes for students, examples of his travel photography and much more. His most recent book 'Home: a philosophy of Personal Space', published in March 2021, asks the most fundamental of all questions: Where do you belong? Another recent book, 'Through Mud and Barbed Wire', tells the story two religious thinkers (Paul Tillich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) who fought on opposite sides in the Great War, and whose experience of the horrors of the battlefields shaped their thinking about God, philosophy and the future of humanity. Mel is a member of the Society of Authors, London. He is married and lives in Essex.
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