Iain Stewart MacLean

Background

Iain Stewart MacLean was born on January 6, 1956 in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. He is a son of William Mathie and Elizabeth MacLean.

Education

In 1976 Iain Stewart MacLean received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Greek from the University of Cape Town. In 1980 he obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Rhodes University. In 1981 MacLean gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Greek and Latin from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Theology in 1986. In 1985 he received a Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1996 Iain obtained a Doctor of Theology from Harvard University.

Career

From 1980 to 1981 Iain Stewart MacLean was a minister and chaplain of the Presbyterian church in Namibia, and in Transvaal, South Africa, from 1981 to 1984. From 1985 to 1987 he was a religious education director in Lincoln, Massachusetts. From 1987 to 1991 MacLean served as a Christian education director at a Congregational church in Boylston, Massachusetts. In 1987 he was an archaeological photographer and assistant for a field project at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt.

From 1991 to 1995 MacLean was an interim pastor of a Congregational church in Boston. From 1992 to 1993 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. From 1995 to 1996 he was a visiting assistant professor at Roanoke College, Salem, and an adjunct professor of religion and philosophy from 1996 to 1997. In 1995 MacLean worked as an adjunct professor at Simmons College (now Simmons University).

From 1997 to 1998 Iain was a visiting assistant professor of religion at Washington and Lee University. In 1998 MacLean was appointed a director of preseminary program at James Madison University, also served as an assistant professor from 1998 to 2001, and became an associate professor of philosophy and religion in 2001.

Achievements

• Iain Stewart MacLean is best known as the author of Opting for Democracy: Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil and Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America. His books received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics

    (Today, such issues as abortion, capital punishment, sex e...)

    1998
  • Opting for Democracy? Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil

    (Liberation theology is often characterized as rejecting d...)

    1999
  • Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America

    (This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America...)

    2006
  • God, Meaning and Morality 1998

Membership

Iain Stewart MacLean is a member of the American Society of Missiologists, the American Academy of Religion, Karl Barth Society, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, the Royal Philatelic Society (Cape Town, South Africa).

Interests

• stamp collecting, philately, book collecting, amateur archaeology, geology

Connections

On November 16, 1991 Iain Stewart MacLean married Jennifer Kay Berenson. They have two children: Rachel Meghan and Duncan Berenson.

Father:

William Mathie MacLean

Mother:

Elizabeth Sutherland MacLean

Spouse:

Jennifer Kay Berenson

Daughter:

Rachel Meghan MacLean

Son:

Duncan Berenson MacLean

References

• Contemporary Authors
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