Wheaton College to host ‘A Politics of Deep Diversity’ Oct. 15

The Center for Applied Christian Ethics & Politics and International Relations at Wheaton College will present the lecture, “A Politics of Deep Diversity,” by Dr. Jonathan Chaplin on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Chaplin is fellow of Wesley House, Cambridge U.K. and research fellow of Cardus, a Canadian Christian think tank. From 2006-17, he was first director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge.

A political theologian, he has taught in the U.K., the Netherlands, and at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto. His books include “Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church-State Relations in England” (2022), “Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity” (2021), and “God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy,” co-editor (Baylor University Press, 2010).

His recent articles include “Christianity and Democracy” in M. Moore and P. Lenard, editors of “Democracy and Morality” (2024), and “Whose Liberalism, Which Christianity?, Symposium on Liberalism, Christianity and Constitutionalism,” University of Notre Dame Law Review (2023).

This event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in Blanchard Hall, Room 339 Lecture Hall, 501 College Avenue in Wheaton. Light refreshments will be provided following the lecture.

For more information, contact Jill Caballero at (630) 752-5886 or cace@wheaton.edu.