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You can listen to Dr Chaplin's presentations at Faith & the City by clicking on the arrows below:
"God's Servant for Your Good": A Christian View of the State
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Street Level Justice: A Christian View of the City
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Seeking the Welfare of the City
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Dr Jonathan Chaplin is the Director of the newly established Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE), based at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Work Research Foundation in Hamilton, Ontario, and a member of the Christian Labour Association of Canada. Prior to his appointment at KLICE, Dr Chaplin was on faculty at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. From 1999 -2006 he was Associate Professor of Political Theory at ICS, holding the Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy from 2004-6, and serving as Academic Dean from 2005-6.
Jonathan Chaplin took a first degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economic at Oxford University. He completed an MPhil at the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto, and a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at London Guildhall University, and for seven years at a Catholic college in Oxford.
Dr Chaplin’s research interests are in Christian political theory and political theology, especially Christian conceptions of the nature and role of the state. He has edited or co-edited three books in Christian political thought and published a range of articles on topics including the nature of the state, liberalism, law and religion, civil society, pluralism, democracy, and contemporary political theology. His monograph on the political thought of Herman Dooyeweerd is due to be published by the University of Notre Dame Press. Dr Chaplin is currently editing a book on the role of religious faiths in American foreign policy, and working on a book presenting a Christian perspective on the state.
Dr Chaplin has served on the boards of several organizations in the UK and North America relating faith to political life, including Citizens for Public Justice in Toronto and the Movement for Christian Democracy in the UK.
Born in Manchester, Jonathan is a keen follower of English Premier League Soccer and still resents the American takeover of his lifelong club, Manchester United.
Click here for a link to Dr Chaplin’s inaugural address at KLICE.
Click here for Dr Chaplin’s article “Street-level Justice” which was published in Comment, 7 December 2005.
Click here for Dr Chaplin’s address “Sphere Sovereignty and Canadian Public Life” at his inauguration as a Senior Fellow of the Work Research Foundation.