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Jonathan Chaplin

Jonathan Chaplin is associate fellow at the British public theology think tank Theos, adjunct faculty at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, and a member of the divinity faculty of Cambridge University. 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 co-edited 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.

“It’s Never Too Late to Do Everything We Can”

A pluralist take on climate change

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Jonathan Chaplin Nov 1, 2013

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The Point of Kuyperian Pluralism

Facing exploitative capitalism and overweening statism, Kuyper’s vision of pluralism should still inspire Christians today.

Jonathan Chaplin Oct 9, 2009

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Can Nations Be Secular?

Confining government to doing justice emphatically does not amount to saying that governments must “neglect all thoughts of God.”

Jonathan Chaplin Apr 24, 2009

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A new take on Tory

In these days of ideological confusion, we are all scrambling to make sense of a political landscape more fluid and difficult to map than anything since the 1930s.

Jonathan Chaplin Mar 1, 2006 City & country

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“Street-level Justice”: governing metropolitan public space

What have bus purchases, or garbage collection, or zoning laws, got to do with lofty principles like justice? Just give me a bit more efficiency and I’ll go quietly. Issues of efficiency can’t be neatly cordoned off from issues of distribution, of access, of sustainability, of opportunity, of security, and of voice. It’s all about ordering the urban public realm justly, and it’s more relevant than most people think.

Jonathan Chaplin Nov 1, 2004

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind (continued)

Continued from part 1... As civil society discourse began to re-enter the currency of political debate a decade or two ago, historians of political thought reminded protagonists that the term in its modern sense goes back at least to the eighteenth century. Before...

Jonathan Chaplin Oct 1, 2004

Blessed Be the Ties That Bind

Civil society is currently a topic of vigorous intellectual disagreement. On the one hand, it is celebrated as the source of numerous social goods: a key to the sustenance of social capital; a necessary contributor to the renewal of liberal democracy; an indispensable...

Jonathan Chaplin May 1, 2004

Lessons from Old Europe

The U.S. government is not currently well-disposed to take political lessons from what Donald Rumsfeld has memorably dubbed Old Europe, least of all from France. And the recent vote of the French National Assembly to ban the wearing of headscarves by Moslem girls in public schools has hardly helped to mitigate American suspicions about the political wisdom of the current French establishment.

Jonathan Chaplin Mar 1, 2004

Reining in the State: Lessons from a very British affair

I was in Britain last July when David Kelly committed suicide in the rolling Oxfordshire countryside. Kelly was a leading government scientist and an acknowledged international expert on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities… Let’s stand back from the details of this episode and ask what it tells us about the principle of accountability.

Jonathan Chaplin Mar 1, 2003

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On Globalization: An Exercise in Public Theology

God and Globalization: Religion and the Powers of the Common Life (vol. 1) by Max Stackhouse with Peter J. Paris, ed. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000, 304 pp, $40 USD); God and Globalization: The Spirit and the Modern Authorities (vol. 2)...

Jonathan Chaplin Jul 1, 2001

The Future of Federalism

Do we need a new vision for Canadian federalism, and, if so, what should this vision be?