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Dr. Jonathan Chaplin is Director of the Institute for Christian Ethics at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. Prior to that he occupied the Herman Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies (ICS), where he was the Senior Member in Political Theory since 1999.  He is completing a book on Herman Dooyeweerd's political thought and is co-editor of Political Theory and Christian Vision: Essays in Memory of Bernard Zylstra. He has published scholarly articles on a range of topics in Christian political theory including pluralism, democracy, state and society, Reformed and Catholic political thought, as well as numerous popular articles. He has served as a member of the Board of the Public Justice Resource Centre, the Social Action Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the Distinguished Advisory Panel of the "Civitas Program," based at the Center for Public Justice in Washington, D.C., and the theology committee of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the Dooyeweerd Centre for Christian Philosophy based at Redeemer University College.







On-line resources


Public justice as a political norm

'Communicating the vision' Engage 16, Spring 2007 

'Speaking from Faith in Democracy' delivered at the KLICE inaugural event, January 2007

'Sphere sovereignty & public life'  inaugural address as the senior fellow of the Work Research Foundation  November 2006


"Rejecting Neutrality, Respecting Diversity: From 'Liberal Pluralism' to 'Christian Pluralism,'"  Christian Scholar's Review 35:2 (Winter 2006) pp.  143-175 [abstract]



Articles from Comment:


Can secularism learn to love pluralism? Theos

Three mp3 talks on faith and the city are available here

Books

Co-editor


Politics and the Parties (When Christians Disagree) (Leicester: IVP, 1992)


Political Theory and Christian Vision: Essays in Memory of Bernard Zylstra (University Press of America, 1994) [amazon uk details]

A Royal Priesthood: A Dialogue with Oliver O'Donovan (Zondervan/ Paternoster, 2003) [amazon uk details]


Forthcoming

Public Justice: A Framework for Faith in Politics (provisional title)