J. A. (Jack) McLean is an independent scholar, writer and poet living in Gatineau, Quebec. He has published five books in the fields of Bahá’í theology and spirituality. In 2013, his literary critical and theological work on the writings of Shoghi Effendi, A Celestial Burning: A Selective Study of the Writings of Shoghi Effendi, won the distinguished scholarship award (book category) from the Association for
Bahá’í Studies. In 2016, he published at One Voice Press, A Love that Could not Wait, the biography of Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, Catherine and Clifford Huxtable. He has written some thirty academic papers in the fields of Bahá’í theology, mysticism and philosophical theology. www.jack-mclean.com
