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Joan Lockwood O’Donovan is a theologian and academic with expertise in Christian political and social thought. She is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews' School of Divinity. She has taught for theological colleges and for Oxford's university and adjunct programs; she was a research fellow in Emory University's Law and Religion Program. Her publications include Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation (1991), From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought (1999, co-edited with Oliver O’Donovan), Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present (2004, co-authored with Oliver O’Donovan), and two articles originating in Oxford and Cambridge consultations on Islamic and Christian political thought. She has been a consultant editor and regular reviewer for Studies in Christian Ethics and is completing a book on the public theology of English church establishment. Her doctoral degree is from the University of Toronto.