Dr. Douglas Farrow: on Marriage

Douglas Farrow is Professor of Christian Thought at McGill University in Montreal. He came to McGill in 1998 from King’s College, London, where he received his PhD and began teaching in 1994.  Besides lecturing in theology and ethics, he is director of a project in religion and public policy, a member of the Centre for Research on Religion, a consultant in the Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law and Culture, co-editor of a series of academic books entitled Great Theologians, and a regular contributor to scholarly journals, including the International Journal of Systematic Theology, to which he is an advisor.  He is also an occasional contributor to First Things, to the comment pages of Canada’s newspapers and religious journals, and to various radio and television programs. Among his publications areAscension and Ecclesia (T & T Clark 1999), Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society (MQUP 2004), Divorcing Marriage (co-edited with Daniel Cere, MQUP 2004), and Nation of Bastards (BPS Books 2007).  Professor Farrow and his family are members of Corpus Christi parish church in Senneville, Quebec; his personal story is told in Canadian Converts (Justin Press 2009).