Torrance Kirby, DPhil is a Guest Writer. He is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and a member of the Princeton Centre of Theological Inquiry and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005).