Dr. Jonathan Chaplin is the first Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, a position he took up in September 2006. He is Member of the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University, has served as a faculty member of the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS), Toronto and as a visiting lecturer at the VU University, Amsterdam. He is a specialist in Christian political thought, and has authored or edited six books and many articles in this field. His latest publications are God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy (Baylor, 2010), co-edited with Robert Joustra, and Herman Dooyeweerd—Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (Notre Dame, 2011). He is married to Dr. Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, a specialist in Christian aesthetics, and they have two children, Paul (23), and Lucia (21). He attends St Andrew's Anglican Church, Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
Christian hope informs an approach to international relations across a broad spectrum of traditions.
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