David Trenery

David Trenery (born 1950) studied philosophy of religion in the late 1960s and early 1970s before marriage and the need to earn an honest living made him become first a social worker, and later a senior manager in social work organisations. A career shift into the UK's Open University in 2005 enabled him to return to the academic world and gave him the opportunity to renew his earlier interest in the foundations of religious belief. He was awarded a PhD by Nottingham University in the UK in 2013. His book "Alasdair MacIntyre, George Lindbeck and the Nature of Tradition" is based on his dissertation, and explores the question of what it is legitimate to believe and why. He is now combining his interest in social work and Alasdair MacIntyre's philosophy by exploring the relationship between social work values and virtue ethics.