Publications & Lectures
Featured Publication
Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009
Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and...
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Book Series
Emory University Studies in Law and Religion
Published in collaboration with the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, this series fosters exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. more
Selected Publications
Theology of Law and Authority in the English Reformation
This work examines the ideas of the English Reformers regarding the origin and nature of law and authority for both church and commonwealth. More
Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society
This excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory—those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation—and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought. More
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Religion, Marriage and Family Series
Published in collaboration with Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, this new series investigates marriage and family as major theological and cultural issues and attempts to correct recent theological neglect of these important matters. More
Selected Publications
Early Christian Families in Context
This interdisciplinary book offers a broader, richer picture of the first Christian families by drawing together research by experts ranging from archaeologists to ancient historians. More
The Vocation of the Child
Does God have intentions for their lives—before they grow up and become "real" people? More
Newly Released Publications
Building Cultures of Trust
September 11 and conspiratorial thinking, the economic crisis, banks and lenders, mistrust of government as a rescue agency, mortgage-lending to foreclosures,... more
Called to Happiness: Where Faith and Psychology Meet
This account of "the new science of happiness" not only supports traditional faith but gives examples that we can use to live a fulfilling life. It... more
More New Releases
- A Proposal for Collaborative Enforcement of a Federal Right to Education
- Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction
- Custom as a Source of Law
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography
- Fides et Libertas
Forthcoming Publications
- ""Be Converted and Become as Little Children": Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Religious Significance of Childhood" in The Child in Christian Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001
- "'But Even So, Look at That': Working with the Convention on the Rights of the Child," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2006): 217-239
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"'Heroism on an Empty Stomach': Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum on Love and Happiness amid the Holocaust," Journal of Religious Ethics
- ""Infinite Openness to the Infinite": Karl Rahner's Contribution to Modern Catholic Thought on the Child" in The Child in Christian Thought, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001
- "'Kerk-Staatverhoudings in die 21ste Eeu' (Church-State Relations in the 21st Century)," Woord en Daad/Word and Action (2010): 4-8