This volume grew out of a conference at the University of Chicago Divinity School sponsored by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and The Pew Christian Scholars Program’s Study Group on Politics and the Problem of Human Nature. The editors express their gratitude to the Divinity School for hosting the conference and The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Christian Scholars Program for their generous support. We especially thank the Team Leader of The Pew Study Group on Politics and the Problem of Human Nature, Jean Bethke Elshtain, for her encouragement and wise counsel.
We also express our gratitude to Texas State University-San Marcos for its ongoing support of our scholarship. Most importantly of all, we thank our families for the understanding and patience they displayed while we were working on this project.