About the Contributors and Editors
Christopher Beem is grants and media coordinator for the Next Door Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1994. He is the author of two books including The Necessity of Politics (1999) and co-editor of two more, including Welfare Reform and Political Theory (co-edited with Lawrence Mead, 2005).
Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Diane Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of several books including Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1999) and the editor of companion volumes, Varieties of Conservatism in America (2004) and Varieties of Progressivism in America (2004).
Michael L. Budde is a senior research scholar in the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, and professor of Catholic Studies and Political Science, at DePaul University in Chicago. His recent books include The Borders of Baptism: Identities, Allegiances and the Church (2011), and Witness of the Body: The Past, Present and Future of Christian Martyrdom (co-edited with Karen Scott, 2011).
J. Budziszewski is professor in the departments of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where he also teaches courses in Religious Studies. A specialist on classical natural law, virtue ethics, moral self-deception, and the problem of toleration, he focuses more generally on political philosophy, ethical philosophy, and the interaction of religion with philosophy. He is the author of thirteen books, including What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (revised ed., 2011), The Line through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction (2009), and, most recently, On the Meaning of Sex (2012).
Eloise A. Buker is professor emerita of political science and former director of Women’s Studies at Saint Louis University. Her books include Talking Feminist Politics: Conversations on the Law, Science and the Postmodern (1999) and Politics through a Looking Glass: Understanding Political Cultures through a Structuralist Interpretation of Narratives (1987). She is working on a book-length manuscript about a Roman Catholic Maryknoll Sister, who was a peace activist in Hawai’i from 1930 to 1995.
Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo is assistant professor of political science at Texas State University-San Marcos. She has edited several books including The Judiciary and American Democracy: Alexander Bickel, the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, and Contemporary Constitutional Theory (co-edited with Kenneth D. Ward, 2005) and Liberty under Law: American Constitutionalism, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (co-edited with Kenneth L. Grasso, 1997).
Jonathan Chaplin is director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge, UK, and a member of the Cambridge University Divinity Faculty. His books include Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society (2011), Talking God: The Legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning (2009), God and Government (co-edited with Nick Spencer, 2009), and A Royal Priesthood: Using the Bible Ethically and Politically/A Dialogue with Oliver Donovan (co-edited with Craig Bartholomew, Robert Song, and Al Wolters, Zondervan, 2002).
Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His recent books include In Search of the Good Life (2007), The Promise of Democracy (2010), and Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars (2010).
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at University Chicago Divinity School. Her many books include Sovereignty: God, State and Self (2008), Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2003), and Public Man, Private Woman: Woman in Social and Political Thought (1981).
Kenneth L. Grasso is professor of political science at Texas State University-San Marcos. He has edited several books including Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (co-edited with Bruce P. Frohnen, 2008) and Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (co-edited with Robert P. Hunt, 2006).
Robin W. Lovin is Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. His books include Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism (1995) and Christian Realism and the New Realities (2008).
Charles Mathewes is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including A Theology of Public Life (2007) and The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times (2010). From 2006 through 2010, he was editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
Joshua Mitchell is professor of political science at Georgetown University. His books include Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought (1996) and Plato’s Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times (2008).
Jean Porter is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics (1990), Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law (2004), and Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (2010).
Jeanne Heffernan Schindler is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. The editor of Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (2008), she has lectured and published articles on Christian political thought, democratic theory, and faith and learning and is currently co-editing a book on the philosophy of Robert Spaemann.
William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics and director of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His recent books include Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds (2004), Religion and the Human Future: An Essay in Theological Humanism (2008), and Dust That Breathes: Christian Faith and the New Humanisms (2010).
Charles Taylor is professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize. His books include Hegel (1975), Sources of the Self (1992), and A Secular Age (2007).
Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, and senior fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past president of the American Philosophical Association and of the Society of Christian Philosophers. He is the author of 21 books, including Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2008), and Justice in Love (2011).