God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy

About the Contributors

291 About the Contributors JOHN A. BERNBAUM is founder of the Russian-American Christian University (recently renamed the Russian-American Institute) in Moscow and currently serves as the university’s president. He has worked for the U.S. State Department and the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. He has authored many articles and two books, Why Work? Careers and Employment in Biblical Perspective (Baker, 1986) and Perspectives on Peacemaking: Biblical Options in the Nuclear Age (Regal, 1984). He holds a Ph.D. in European and Russian history from the University of Maryland. JONATHAN CHAPLIN is director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Tyndale House, Cambridge, and a member of the divinity faculty of Cambridge University. From 1999 to 2006 he was associate professor of political theory at the Institute for Christian Studies, where he also held the Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy from 2004 to 2006. He has edited or co-edited five books, including Political Theory and Christian Vision (University Press of America, 1994) and a volume on British political theology entitled God and Government (SPCK, 2009). He is author of Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (Theos, 2009) and numerous 292 About the Contributors articles on Christian political thought. A monograph on the Dutch Christian political philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd is forthcoming with University of Notre Dame Press in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science. J. DARYL CHARLES is director and senior fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice, Bryan College, and served as the 2007/2008 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, Princeton University. Author or editor of ten books, including most recently (with David D. Corey) Justice in an Age of Terror (ISI Books, forthcoming), (with David B. Capes) Thriving in Babylon (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming), and Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (Eerdmans, 2008), Charles also serves on the editorial advisory board of the journals Pro Ecclesia and Cultural Encounters and is a contributing editor to Touchstone. His work has been published in a wide array of scholarly journals, including Journal of Church and State, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Journal of Religious Ethics, Academic Questions, First Things, Pro Ecclesia, Philosophia Christi, Books & Culture, and Christian Scholars Review. THOMAS F. FARR is a visiting associate professor of religion and international affairs at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is also a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where he directs the center’s program on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy. He has written widely on religion and international affairs, including “Diplomacy in an Age of Faith,” Foreign Affairs (March/ April 2008), and a recent book, World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security (Oxford University Press, 2008). Farr was the first director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD is associate professor of history at Gordon College (Mass.), where he is founding director of the Jerusalem & Athens Forum. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals , and he is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Making of the Modern German University (Oxford University Press, 2006). He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. His chapter draws from a larger work, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). About the Contributors 293 ROBERT JOUSTRA is on the staff of the Canadian think tank Cardus, where he was lead researcher on the project “Stained Glass Urbanism.” He is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the University of Bath working under the supervision of Scott Thomas and a part-time lecturer in International Relations at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. He holds an M.A. in globalization studies from McMaster University, Hamilton , Ontario. He is author of “Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism,” in Michael W. Goheen and Erin Glanville, eds., Globalization and the Gospel: Probing the Religious Foundations of Globalization (Regent and Geneva Society, 2009), and writes regularly for the Cardus journal Comment. PAUL MARSHALL is a senior fellow in the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute. He is the...