Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

Contributor Biographies

Contributor Biographies Francis J. Beckwith is professor of philosophy and church-state studies, and resident scholar in the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of over a dozen books including Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft (InterVarsity Press, 2010) and Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Luigi Bradizza is assistant professor of political science at Salve Regina University . He is author of Richard T. Ely’s Critique of Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan). He also is author of “Elite Education and the Viability of a Lockean Society,” which appeared in The Review of Politics (Fall 2008) and “Madison and Republican Cosmopolitanism ,” which appeared in Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens with States, edited by Lee Trapanier and Khalil M. Habib (University of Kentucky Press). J. Budziszewski, an ethical and political theorist, is professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. A specialist on the classical natural law tradition, he is completing a commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law, to be published by Cambridge University Press. His earlier works include The Resurrection of Nature (Cornell), The Nearest Coast of Darkness (Cornell), True Tolerance (Transaction), Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law (IVP), The Revenge of Conscience (Spence), What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide (Ignatius Press), and The Line Through the Heart (ISI). Paul R. DeHart is assistant professor of political science at Texas State University. He is author of Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design (University of Missouri Press, 2007) as well as a number of articles and chapters, including “The 240 C on tr ibuto r Bio g r aphies Dangerous Life: Natural Justice and the Rightful Subversion of the State,” Polity (July 2006), “Covenantal Realism: The Self-Referential Incoherency of Conventional Social Contract Theory and the Necessity of Consent,” Perspectives on Political Science (July 2012), “Reason and Will in Natural Law,” in Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2012), “Fractured Foundations: The Self-Contradiction between Locke’s Ontology and His Moral Philosophy,” Locke Studies (2012), and “Leviathan Leashed: On the Incoherence of Absolute Sovereignty ,” Critical Review (Winter 2013). Ralph C. Hancock holds degrees from BYU and Harvard and has taught political philosophy at Brigham Young University since 1987; he is also president of the John Adams Center for the Study of Faith, Philosophy and Public Affairs. His most recent book is The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age (Rowman and Littlefield), and a new edition of his Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics has recently been published by Saint Augustine’s Press. Carson Holloway is associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of The Way of Life: John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity (Baylor University Press, 2008), The Right Darwin? Evolution , Religion, and the Future of Democracy (Spence Publishing, 2006), All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Spence Publishing, 2001), and the editor of Magnanimity and Statesmanship (Lexington Books, 2008). Robert C. Koons is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge University Press) and Realism Regained (Oxford University Press). Most recently he co-edited (with George Bealer) The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press). Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College and executive editor of the scholarly quarterly Perspectives on Political Science. He is author or editor of fifteen books and more than two hundred articles and chapters; he served on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics. R. J. Snell is associate professor and director of the philosophy program at Eastern University where he also is research director of the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. Among his writing is Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View, and the forthcoming books Authentic Cosmopolitanism: Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University (with Steve Cone), and The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode. Contributor Biogr aphies 241 James R. Stoner, Jr., is professor of political science at Louisiana State University and a former chair of the department. He is author of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas) and Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism...