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Jonathan Chaplin

Dr. Jonathan Chaplin, who occupied the Herman Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies (ICS), where he has been the Senior Member in Political Theory since 1999, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Christian Ethics at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. 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.