Jonathan Chaplin
Dr. Jonathan Chaplin is associate fellow at the British public-theology think tank Theos, adjunct faculty at the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS), Toronto, and a member of the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University. He was first director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, based in Cambridge, from 2006 to 2017. He taught political theory at ICS from 1999 to 2006, holding the Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy from 2004 to 2006. He was visiting lecturer at the VU University, Amsterdam, from 2007 to 2011. He is author of Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity (SCM 2021) and Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (University of Notre Dame 2011) and two reports for Theos. He has also edited or coedited nine other books, most recently The Future of Brexit Britain: Anglican Reflections on British Identity and European Solidarity (SPCK 2020). He has written over thirty articles for Comment magazine. He is a member of St Paul's Anglican Church, Cambridge, UK, where he chairs the Eco Church committee and serves as Diocesan Synod rep.
Bio last updated September 17th, 2021.
Articles by Jonathan Chaplin
My Kind of 'Christian Nation'
By Jonathan Chaplin
May 22, 2014
Indeed not only would they disavow any new public privileges that might be dangled in front of them by governments seeking to curry their favour, but they'd have the nerve to take the initiative in offering to relinquish any inequitable financial or constitutional advantages they'd inherited from the legacy of Christian primacy Or, to add an important qualification, my kind of Christian polity, since the nation is much wider and deeper than the political system that could deliver policies like those above
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Beyond ‘Beyond “Engagement”’ (plus, ‘Book-Reviewing 101’)
Jonathan Chaplin
May 6, 2014
The introduction sets out a clear and plausible rationale for the book (ignored by Smith): that the politics of a nation can't be grasped apart from its underlying culture and religion; that American culture and religion have left American (Christian) citizens burdened by a "national civil religion"...