Joan Lockwood O'donovan

Joan Lockwood O’Donovan is a theologian and academic who has lectured and written extensively in Christian political and social thought. She has taught for theological colleges, the university and adjunct programs in Oxford, has been Research Fellow in the Law and Religion Program, Emory University, and is currently an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Divinity, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in the School of Divinity. Her books include: George Grant and the Twilight of Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought, co-edited with Oliver O’Donovan (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), and Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present, co-authored with Oliver O’Donovan (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004). She has been a consultant editor and regular reviewer for Studies in Christian Ethics. She is currently completing a book on the public theology of English church establishment.