Christianity & Politics: A Bibliography

March 2010

Contents
I. Biblical Studies
II. Theological, Philosophical, Legal, and Ethical Studies
III. Christian-Democratic History, Philosophy, and Policy Arguments 

 

I. Biblical Studies

Bartholomew, Craig, Reading Proverbs with Integrity (Cambridge: Grove Books Ltd., 2001).

Bartholomew, and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2004).

Bartholomew, and Andrew West, Praying by the Book: Reading the Psalms (Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster Press, 2001).

Bartholomew, Jonathan Chaplin, and Al Wolters, eds., A Royal Priesthood: The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2002).

Buber, Martin, Kingship of God, trans. Richard Scheimann (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1967).

Dumbrell, William J., The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001).

Goldsworthy, Graeme, “Kingdom of God,” New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, eds., T. Desmond Alexander, et al (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 615-20.

Grant, Jamie A., The King as Exemplar: The Function of Deuteronomy’s Kingship Law in the Shaping of the Book of Psalms (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004).

Kline, Meredith G., Treaty of the Great King: The Covenant Structure of Deuteronomy, Studies and Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1963).

Miller, Patrick D., The God You Have: Politics, Religion, and the First Commandment (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).

Skillen, James W., A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice (Grand Rapids, Mich.: CRC Publications, 2000).

Stek, John, “What Says the Scripture?” Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives on the World’s Formation, ed., Howard J. Van Till, et al (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990), 203-65.

Storkey, Alan, Jesus and Politics: Confronting the Powers (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005).

Van Leeuwen, Raymond C., “The Book of Proverbs,” The New Interpreter’s Bible, vol. V (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997), 17-264.

Wright, Christopher, J.H., God’s People in God’s Land: Family, Land and Property in the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990).

Wright, Christopher, J.H., “Jubilee, Year of,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed., D.N. Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992).

Wright, Christopher, J.H., The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2006).

Wright, N.T., Jesus and the Victory of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996).

Wright, N.T., New Heavens, New Earth (Cambridge: Grove Books Ltd., 1999).

Wright, N.T., “Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire,” Richard A. Horsley, ed., Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000), 160-83.

 

II. Theological, Philosophical, Legal, and Ethical Studies

Althusius, Johannes, The Politics of Johannes Althusius, trans. Frederick S. Carney (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964).

Augustine, The City of God, Bks. XIV and XIX, ed., Vernon J. Bourke (Doubleday Image Books, 1958), 295-322, 427-82.

Beaumont, Paul, R., ed., Christian Perspectives on Human Rights and Legal Philosophy (Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster Press, 1998).

Berman, Harold J., Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).

Berman, Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Traditions (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003).

Bratt, James D., ed., Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998).

Budziszewski, J., Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1997).

Chaplin, Jonathan, “Christian Theories of Democracy,” Contemporary Political Studies, 1998, vol. II, eds., Andrew Dobson and Jeffrey Stanyer (Political Studies Association of the UK, 1998), 988-1003.

Chaplin, The Gospel and Politics: Five Positions (Toronto: Institute for Christian Studies, 1985).

Chaplin, “Subsidiarity and Sphere Sovereignty: Catholic and Reformed Conceptions of the Role of the State,” Things Old and New: Catholic Social Teaching Revisited, eds., Frank McHugh and Samuel Natale (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1993), 195-202.

Clouser, Roy A., The Myth of Religious Neutrality, rev. ed. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).

Dooyeweerd, Herman, Roots of Western Culture, Series B, Vol. 3 of The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd, ed., D.F.M. Strauss (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003, 1979).

Dooyeweerd, The Struggle for a Christian Politics, Series B, vol. 5 of The Collected Work of Herman Dooyeweerd, ed., D.F.M. Strauss (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

Haas, Guenther H., The Concept of Equity in Calvin’s Ethics (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997).

Hancock, Ralph, Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989).

Hittinger, Russell, The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003).

Jenkins, Philip, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Johnson, James Turner, The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions (State College, Penna.: Penn State University Press, 1997).

Koyzis, David T., Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Critique of Contemporary Ideologies (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003).

Kuyper, Abraham, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1961, 1931, 1898).

Lugo, Luis E., ed., Religion, Pluralism, and Public Life: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000).

McConnell, Michael, Robert Cochran Jr., and Angela Carmella, eds., Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).

Mouw, Richard, Politics and the Biblical Drama (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1976).

Mueller, William A., Church and State in Luther and Calvin (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965).

Niebuhr, Reinhold, “Augustine’s Political Realism,” Niebuhr, Christian Realism and Political Problems (New York: Scribners, 1953), 119-46.

O’Donovan, Oliver, “Augustine’s City of God XIX and Western Political Thought,” Dionysius XI (December 1987), 89-110.

O’Donovan, The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

O’Donovan, and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, eds., From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Scourcebook in Christian Political Thought (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999).

Paolucci, Henry, ed., The Political Writings of St. Augustine (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1962).

Schindler, Jeanne Heffernan, ed., Christianity and Civil Society: Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008).

Skillen, James W., “Augustine and Evangelical Political Thought,” The Reformed Journal (January 1979), 19-24.

Skillen, “The Common Good as Political Norm,” in Patrick D. Miller and Dennis P. McCann, eds., In Search of the Common Good (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), 256-278.

Skillen, “Common Moral Ground and the Natural Law Argument,” Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics, eds., Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996), 132-37.

Skillen, “Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea: Herman Dooyeweerd’s Political and Legal Thought,” The Political Science Reviewer XXXII (2003), 318-80.

Skillen, “Politics in One World,” Philosophia Reformata 66 (2001), 117-31.

Skillen, “Reformed . . . and Always Reforming?” Church, State, and Citizen: Christian Approaches to Political Engagement, ed., Sandra F. Joireman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 53-72.

Skillen, and Rockne M. McCarthy, eds., Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1991).

Skillen, and Stanley W. Carlson-Thies, “Religion and Political Development in Nineteenth-Century Holland,” Publius 12 (1982), 43-64.

Stackhouse, Max, Creeds, Society and Human Rights: A Study in Three Cultures (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984).

Stackhouse, God and Globalization, 4 vols. (New York: Continuum, 2000-2007).

Stevenson, William, Sovereign Grace: The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin’s Political Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Ullmann, Walter, Medieval Political Thought (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1975).

Van der Vyver, Johan, “The Jurisprudential Legacy of Abraham Kuyper and Leo XIII,” Markets and Morality 5, no. 1 (Spring 2002), 211-50.

Witte, John W., Jr., Law and Protestantism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Yoder, John Howard, The Politics of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1972).

   

III. Christian-Democratic History, Philosophy, and Policy Arguments

 

Carlson-Thies, Stanley, and James W. Skillen, eds., Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in Crisis (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996).

Chaplin, Jonathan, “Beyond Liberal Restraint: Defending Religiously Based Arguments in Law and Public Policy,” University of British Columbia Law Review 33, no. 3 (2000), 617-46.

Christian Political Options, papers and discussion extracts from a symposium held on April 2-6, 1979, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Anti-Revolutionary Party in the Netherlands (The Hague: AR-Partijstichting, 1979).

Davis, David Brion, The Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).

De Gruchy, John W., Christianity and Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

DeWitt, Calvin, Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God’s Handiwork (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books and the Center for Public Justice, 1998).

Donaldson, Dave, and Stanley Carlson-Thies, A Revolution of Compassion: Faith-Based Groups as Full Partners in Fighting America’s Social Problems (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2003.

Fleet, Michael, and Brian H. Smith, The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).

Fogarty, Michael, Christian Democracy in Western Europe 1820-1953 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974, 1957).

Freston, Paul, ed., Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate [www.ashgate.com], 2004)

Glenn, Charles L., The Ambiguous Embrace: Government and Faith-Based Schools and Social Agencies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Goudzwaard, Bob, A Christian Political Option, trans. Herman Praamsma (Toronto: Wedge Publishing Foundation, 1972).

Goudzwaard, Globalization and the Kingdom of God (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books and the Center for Public Justice, 2001).

Grasso, Kenneth L., and Robert P. Hunt, eds., Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

Guidelines for Government and Citizenship (www.cpjustice.org/guidelines)

Hanley, David, ed., Christian Democracy in Europe: A Comparative Perspective (New York: Pinter, 1994).

Hanson, Eric O., The Catholic Church and World Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).

Hoksbergen, Roland, and Lowell M. Ewert, eds., Local Ownership, Global Change: Will Civil Society Save the World? (Seattle: WorldVision, 2002).

Kruip, Gerhard, and Helmut Reifeld, eds., Church and Society: The Role of Christian Churches in the Emerging Countries of Argentina, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa (Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2007).

Kuyper, Abraham, “Our Instinctive Life (1908),” “Calvinism: Source and Stronghold of Our Constitutional Liberties (1874),” “The South African Crisis (1900),” and “Sphere Sovereignty (1880),” in Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, ed., James D. Bratt (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998), 255-77, 279-322, 323-60, 461-90, respectively.

Kuyper, The Problem of Poverty, ed., James W. Skillen (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1991).

Lumsdaine, David H., ed., Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Lynch, Edward A., Religion and Politics in Latin America: Liberation Theology and Christian Democracy (New York Praeger, 1991).

McCarthy, et al, Society, State, and Schools: A Case for Structural and Confessional Pluralism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981).

McCarthy, Rockne M., James W. Skillen, and William A. Harper, Disestablishment a Second Time: Genuine Pluralism for American Schools (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1982).

Maier, Hans, Revolution and Church: The Early History of Christian Democracy, 1789-1901, trans. Emily M. Schossberger (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969).

Manis, Andrew Michael, Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil Rights, 1947-57 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987).

Maritain, Jacques, Christianity and Democracy, trans., Doris C. Anson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Son, 1944).

Maritain, Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom, trans. Joseph W. Evans (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1973).

Marshall, Paul, God and the Constitution: Christianity and American Politics (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

Monsma, Stephen, and J. Christopher Soper, eds., Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998).

Neuhaus, Richard John, ed., The Bible, Politics, and Democracy (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987).

Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984).

Noll, Mark A., ed., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

Papini, Roberto, The Christian Democrat International, trans., Robert Royal (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).

Ranger, Terence O., ed., Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Rogobete, Silviu E., and Andrew Otchie, Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Europe (Amersfoort, Netherlands: European Christian Political Movement, 2006).

Schluter, Michael, and John Ashcroft, Jubilee Manifesto: A Framework, Agenda, and Strategy for Christian Social Reform (Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 2005).

Sherratt, Timothy R., and Ronald P. Mahurin, Saints as Citizens: A Guide to Public Responsibilities for Christians (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books and the Center for Public Justice, 1995).

Skillen, James W., Christians Organizing for Political Service (Washington, D.C.: APJ Education Fund [now the Center for Public Justice], 1980).

Skillen, ed., Confessing Christ and Doing Politics (Washington, D.C.: APJ Education Fund [now the Center for Public Justice[, 1982).

Skillen, In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).

Skillen, ed., Prospects and Ambiguities of Globalization (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009).

Skillen, Recharging the American Experiment (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1994).

Skillen, The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1990).

Skillen, With or Against the World? America’s Role Among the Nations (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Williams, Edward J., Latin American Christian Democratic Parties (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1967).

Wilson, Catherine E., “Jacque Maritain and Eduardo Frei Montalva: The Prophetic Factor of Democracy,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXI, no.1-2 (2009), 83-105.

Spencer, Nick, Robert White, and Virginia Vroblesky, Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 2009).

Witte, John, Jr., ed., Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993).

Witte, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 2nd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2005).

—Compiled by James W. Skillen