Professor Kirby - Church History at McGill University


260-322A Professor Kirby Syllabus External Links - Encyclopedia Britannica - Oxford English Dictionary - Catholic Encyclopedia - Guide to Early Church Documents - Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Church History (Catholic Resources) - Creeds of Christendom - Dante, Divine Comedy - Ecole Initiative (Iconography) - History of the Christian Church - Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Paul Halsall, ed. - Monastic Studies - ORB :The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies - Online Medieval and Classical Library	Professor Torrance Kirby Professor Kirby is originally from Calgary, Alberta. He studied Classics (Greek Philosophy and Literature) at the University of King's College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he received BA (First Class Honours) and MA degrees respectively. While a student in the Classics Department at Dalhousie he developed his continuing interest in Patristics. He studied Ecclesiastical History in the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University, wrote a dissertation on the political theology of Richard Hooker, and received a DPhil degree in 1988. Kirby is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey and was appointed to his position at McGill in 1997. RECENT PUBLICATIONS Monographs The Theology of Richard Hooker in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation. Studies in Reformed Theology and History, gen. ed. E. David Willis. Princeton: Princeton Seminary Press, 2000. Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, XLIII. Leiden and New York : E.J. Brill, 1990. Articles "'The Charge of Religion belongeth unto Princes:' Peter Martyr Vermigli on the Unity of Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 93 (2002). "Vermilius Absconditus? The Iconography of Peter Martyr," in Emidio Campi, editor, Petrus Martyr Vermigli : Humanismus, Republikanismus, Reformation. Geneva : Droz, 2002. "The Paradigm of Chalcedonian Christology in Richard Hooker's Discourse on Grace and the Church," Churchman, vol. 114 (Spring, 2000): 22-39. "William Chillingworth," in Andrew Pyle, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol : Thoemmes Press, 2000. "Henry Hammond" in Andrew Pyle, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol : Thoemmes Press, 2000. "Richard Hooker" in Andrew Pyle, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol : Thoemmes Press, 2000. "William Laud" in Andrew Pyle, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol : Thoemmes Press, 2000. "John Rainolds" in Andrew Pyle, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol : Thoemmes Press, 2000. "Richard Hooker's Theory of Natural Law in the Context of Reformation Theology." Sixteenth Century Journal. XXX/3 (1999): 681-703. "The Civil Magistrate : Peter Martyr Vermigli's Commentary on Romans 13" in J.P. Donnelly, Frank James III and Joseph C. McLelland, editors, The Peter Martyr Reader. Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 1999, 221-237. [Latin to English translation with notes] "Political Theology in the Reformation Period," in Susan Harris, ed., No Power but of God: Political Theology and the Christian's Relation to the State. Proceedings of the 18th Atlantic Theological Conference. Charlottetown : St. Peter's Publications, 1999, 61-68. "The Neoplatonic Logic of 'Procession and Return' in the First Book of Hooker's Lawes." Renaissance and Reformation, XXII, 4 (1998): 49-67. "Richard Hooker's Discourse on Natural Law in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation." Animus: A Philosophical Journal for our Time, vol. 3 (1998), http://www.mun.ca/animus/ 1998vol3 /kirby3.htm "The Paradigm of Chalcedonian Christology in Richard Hooker's Doctrines of Salvation and the Church," in Susan Harris, editor, Who do you say that I am? The Person and Mission of Jesus Christ. Proceedings of the 17th Atlantic Theological Conference. Charlottetown : St. Peter's Publications, 1998, 85-107. "Praise as the Soul's Overcoming of Time in the Confessions of St. Augustine," Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology, vol. 6, no.2 (1997), 333-350. "Richard Hooker as an Apologist of the Magisterial Reformation in England," in Arthur S. McGrade, editor, Richard Hooker and the Construction of Christian Community. Tempe, AZ : Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 165, 1997, 219-233. "Richard Hooker," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Third Edition, edited by E.A. Livingstone. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, 789. "The Doctrine of the Church in the Thirty-Nine Articles : A Response to Philip Edgcumbe Hughes," in Richmond Bridge, editor, The Thirty-Nine Articles. Proceedings of the 10th Atlantic Theological Conference. Charlottetown : St. Peter's Publications, 1990, 63-68. "Supremum Caput : Richard Hooker's Theology of Ecclesiastical Dominion," Dionysius, vol. XII (1988), 69-110. "Christian Institutions : an Anglican Perspective on the Family and the State" in Richmond Bridge, editor, Holy Living. Proceedings of the 7th Atlantic Theological Conference. Charlottetown : St. Peter's Publications, 1987, 48-49. Current Research "The Political Thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli." The Peter Martyr Library, Second Series, vol. 3. Kirksville, Missouri : Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 2003 (projected date of completion). [A translation from Latin of political scholia with a textual introduction and commentary.] Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship, July-August 2001. "The Zurich Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement : Political Theology in England from Vermigli to Hooker." Recent Reviews Peter Martyr Vermigli, The Oxford Treatise and Disputation on the Eucharist, 1549. Translated and edited by Joseph C. McLelland. The Peter Martyr Library, vol. 7. Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 2000. Reviewed in the Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXIII, no.2 (2002). "The Potent Nonentity, " a review in The St. John's Review, vol. 46, no. 4 of Eva T. H. Brann's What, then, is time? Oxford and Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Peter Martyr Vermigli, Philosophical Works : on the relation of Philosophy to Theology. Translated and edited by Joseph C. McLelland. The Peter Martyr Library, vol. 4. Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 1996. Reviewed in ARC: Journal of the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies 27 (1999), 231-234. Nigel Atkinson, Richard Hooker and the Authority of Scripture, Reason and Tradition. Carlisle, England: Paternoster Press, 1997. Reviewed in The Episcopal Evangelical Journal, vol. I, no. 10 (Feb. 1999), 17-18. Joseph C. McLelland, Peter Martyr Vermigli's Philosophical Writings in ARC 27, 1999. Nigel Atkinson, Richard Hooker and the Authority of Scripture, Reason and Tradition in The Episcopal Evangelical Journal, vol. I, no. 10 (Feb. 1999), pp. 17-18. Forthcoming: Bryan D. Spinks, Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology : Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker (1999) in the Scottish Journal of Theology. Reviews of Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy : Alister McGrath, English Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 432, (June, 1994), p. 717. A.S. McGrade, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 44, no. 2, (April, 1993), pp. 315-319. Christopher Haigh, Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 44, no.1, (April, 1993), pp. 416-418. David M. Loades, Archive for Reformation History Supplement, Literature Review 1018 (vol. 21, 1992), pp. 147-148. Arthur J. Slavin, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 45, no.1 (1992), pp. 176-178. Frederica Harris Thompsett, Anglican and Episcopal History, vol. 62, no.1 (March, 1990), pp.90-91. Norman Doe, Journal of Legal History, vol. 95 (1991), pp. 66-7. W. van 't Spijker, Theologia Reformata, Jaargang XXXV, no. 1, (March, 1992) p. 74. Forthcoming "The Two Christian Platonisms of Richard Hooker." ARC: Journal of the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies 30 (2002). RECENT LECTURES AND ADDRESSES (SINCE 1997) November 2001 Guest Lecture: "Richard Hooker's Christian Platonism" Department of History and Classics, Acadia University October 2001 Organiser: Four Conference Sessions (ten papers) and Round Table Discussion on the Life and Thought of Richard Hooker, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado October 2001 Conference Paper: "Relics of the Amorites" or "Things Indifferent"? Peter Martyr Vermigli's authority and the threat of Schism in the Elizabethan Vestiarian Controversy, SCSC, Denver May 2001 Guest Lecture: "Common Prayer : An Elizabethan Perspective" Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, under the auspices of the Prayer Book Society of Canada May 2001 Guest Lecture: "The Authority of Reason in Classical Anglicanism" Montreal Diocesan College, Montreal, PQ November 2000 Public Lecture: "Richard Hooker and the Liturgy" Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University November 2000 Organiser: two conference sessions (six papers) on the thought of Richard Hooker, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio November 2000 Conference Paper, "Grace and Hierarchy : The Two Platonisms of Richard Hooker," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio September 2000 Special Seminar: "Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Cost of Discipleship," Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal April 2000 Faculty Lecture: "The Dialectic of Church and State in Late-Medieval and Reformation Political Thought," Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal February 2000 Guest Lecture: "Celestial Jerusalem in the City of God of Aurelius Augustine," Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University October 1999 Conference Paper: "Peter Martyr Vermigli and Boniface VIII: the difference between Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri September 1999 Seminar Paper: "Richard Hooker's Doctrine of Natural Law", Montreal British History Seminar, McGill University, Montreal July 1999 Conference Chair at opening session "Petrus Martyr Vermigli: Humanismus, Republikanismus, Reformation," University of Zurich, Switzerland October 1998 Public Lecture: "Richard Hooker and Elizabethan Apologetics", Montreal Diocesan College, Montreal June 1998 Conference Paper: "Political Theology of the Magisterial and Radical Reformations," Atlantic Theological Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island October 1997 Conference Paper: "Quid Athenae Hierosolymis? Richard Hooker's Discourse on Natural and Divine Law," Society of Christian Ethics Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio June 1997 Conference Paper: "The Paradigm of Chalcedonian Christology in the Thought of Richard Hooker," Atlantic Theological Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick January 1997 Paper: "Richard Hooker and the authority of the Magisterial Reformation," Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton RECENT GRADUATE SEMINARS TAUGHT 260-530A/B Area Studies in Church History (STM tutorial) 260-625B Creeds and Confessions (2000: Augustine, De Trinitate; 2001: Reformation Confessions) 260-626B Secular Dimensions of the Reformation (16th c. Political Theology) 260-682A History of Christianity (Augustine, De Civitate Dei) 260-682B Christian Spirituality (Richard Hooker and the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer) ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS American Academy of Religion Atlantic Theological Society Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry Sixteenth Century Studies Conference The Montreal British History Seminar The Peter Martyr Vermigli Society
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