Brief bio

Sen McGlinn was born in New Zealand, and studied English literature and Theology there, but for the past 10 years he and his wife, Sonja van Kerkhoff, have been living in the Netherlands. Sen is a student of Islamic Studies at Leiden university, Sonja is an artist and one of the editors of Arts Dialogue. Sen established the Mashriq discussion group, a list devoted to exploring the expression of Baha'i worship in community life.

Current interests and activities include editing the Leiden list of Baha'u'llah's tablets, and preparing a theology of community relationships (church and state, House of Worship & House of Justice, the Guardianship and the House of Justice, the institutional role of academic expertise in society and the Baha'i community, the individual and the collective).

Publications

1. Diverse publications in poetry, including 3 books, of which the last, 'Feeding Harbour' (1987) is still in print. Ask me.
2. Soundings, (paper on 'The Bible in Modern Scholarship' and volume editor), Dunedin, New Zealand, Open Circle Publishing, 1988
3. The view from Maastricht, Forum, 2:1. German translation: GrÙ¤e aus Maastricht. Gedanken zu den Vertr¹gen von Maastricht - die Rolle der Baha'i im Vereinigungsproze¤, in Europa: auf dem Weg zur Weltordnung? Gesellschaft fÙr Baha'i Studien, Schriftenreihe vol. 3, Hofheim, Baha'i-Verlag, 1995
4. Inner Limits (Review): The Inner Limits of Mankind, by Ervin Laszlo, One World, London, 1989 and Faith and World Economy, a Joint Venture, by Giuseppe Robiati. Published by Gruppo Editoriale Insieme, Recco, Italy, 1991. Review published in Associate, Newsletter of the Association for Baha'i Studies (English Speaking Europe), Issue 7, January 1993
5. Notes Postmarked The Mountain of God, by Roger White, New Leaf Publishing, Richmond, British Columbia, Review in World Order, 1992
6. Emergence, Dimensions of a New World Order, Charles Lerche (ed), BPT London 1991. Review, in The Baha'i Studies Review vol. 3 no. 1, 1993
7. Toward the Enlightened Society, in Bahai Studies Review, vol. 4 no. 1, 1994
8. Understanding the Gospels, a review of Eric Bowes The Gospels and the Christs (Australia: Baha'i Publishing Trust Australia) in World Order, 26:4 Summer 1995
9. 'Kerk' en Staat in het wereldstelsel van Baha'u'llah, Vizier, vol. 34 nos 5 and 6, 1995, vol. 35 nos 1 and 2, 1996
10. Some considerations relating to the inheritance laws of the Aqdas, Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 5 no. 1, 1995
11. De Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, een verkenning, Vizier 35:6 (Jan. 1997) to 36:3 (four parts).
12. The Style of the Kitab-i-Aqdas: Aspects of the Sublime, by Suheil B. Bushrui, Review in Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 6, 1996.
13. 'Commentary: Some interpretive principles in the Bahá'í writings', in Bahá'í Studies Review, Vol. 7, 1997. (Also online at http://bahai-library.org)
14. A Detour on the Path to Prosperity, A review of Giuseppe Robiati's Faith and World Economy, a Joint Venture: Baha'i Perspective, trans. Julio Savi (Recco, Italy: Gruppo Editoriale Insieme, 1991), World Order 29:2 Winter 1997.
15. 'A theology of the state from the Bahá'í writings', Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, Autumn 1999
16. Juan R.I. Cole. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Reviewed in Iranian Studies 32:4 1999 580-582. A longer form of this review is available at http://www.hnet.msu.edu/reviews
17. The Ocean of His Words: A reader‰s guide to the art of Bahá‰u‰lláh by John S. Hatcher, Bahá‰í Publishing Trust, Wilmette 1997, reviewed in Bahá‰í Studies Review, vol. 9, 1999.
18. Forthcoming: ëThe roots of theocratic conceptions‰
19. Submitted: ëA difficult case: Beyer‰s categories and the Bahá‰í Faith‰
20. Submitted: The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar.

    presented, unpublished papers:

21. "The Theology of Church and State in the Baha'i Order," presented at the Baha'i Studies Colloquia on the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Nijmegan, the Netherlands February 1995 and Wilmette, USA, 31 March to 2 April 1995

    On the web:

22. Sen McGlinn, ed., "The Leiden Bibliography of the Writings of Baha'u'llah," Research Notes on Iranian Religions (Lansing, MI: H-Bahai, 1997), published in the Resource Guide for the Scholarly Study of the Baha'i Faith (Wilmette: Research Office of the U.S. Baha'i National Center, 1997).
    
    

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