Torrance Kirby

Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History. He received a DPhil degree in Modern History from Oxford University in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a McCord Fellow of the Princeton Centre of Theological Inquiry, and a life member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His recent books include Persuasion and Conversion: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (2013), The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007), Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005), and he co-edited with Paul Stanwood (UBC) Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England.