2008 Kuyper Lecture

Lecture topic: The future of Christian-democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad
by Jonathan Chaplin, director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics at Tyndale House, Cambridge (England)

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Villanova University (2008 Kuyper Lecture co-host)
Villanova, PA

The lecturer

Dr. Jonathan Chaplin is a specialist in Christian political thought and has edited or co-edited three books and several articles in this field for academic and wider audiences. Before joining the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, he served from 1999-2006 as Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, where he held the Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy from 2004-06 and served as academic dean from 2005-06. From 1997-98 he was a Fellow in Christian Political Thought at Sarum College, Salisbury, and from 1990-97 he was a Tutor in Politics at Plater College in Oxford.

As a senior fellow of the Work Research Foundation in Hamilton, Ontario, Chaplin writes regularly for its online journal, Comment. He also has served on the boards or advisory councils of several organizations working on the relationship between Christian faith and public life, including the Movement for Christian Democracy, Citizens for Public Justice (Canada), and the Civitas Program of the Center for Public Justice.