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Courses taught 2010/2011:
POL121 Introduction to Political Science
POL122 Introduction to Political Ideologies
POL221 Canadian Government and Politics
POL225 American Government and Politics
POL315 Comparative Government: Europe
POL325 Recent Political Theory
POL380
Internship
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1987), Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: "Toward a Christian Democratic Pluralism: A Comparative Study of Neo-Thomist and Neo-Calvinist Political Theories."
M.Phil. (1982), Political Theory, Institute for Christian Studies
Thesis: "Hannah Arendt and the Disappearance of the Political in the Modern Age."
B.A. (1978) Political Science, Bethel College (now Bethel University)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Political ideologies, particularly nationalism
- Neo-Calvinist and neo-Thomist political theories
- Religion and politics
- State-building amid diversity.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
We Answer to Another: Authority, Human Personhood and the Imago Dei, in progress.
Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies. (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2003), received first place in the nonfiction/culture category from The Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards, 2004. Subject of Mars Hill Audio Journal interview, November-December 2004, "on the modern denial of objective meaning and the exaltation of individual will."
CHAPTERS & ARTICLES
“Preparing for Leadership,” Comment, 1 June 2007, republished at Christianity.ca.
“Persuaded, Not Commanded: Neo-Calvinism, Dignitatis Humanae, and Religious Liberty,” in Kenneth Grasso and Robert Hunt, ed., Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
“Introductory Essay,” in Daniël F. M. Strauss, ed., Political Philosophy by Herman Dooyeweerd (Ancaster, Ontario and Lewiston, New York: The Dooyeweerd Centre and the Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), pp. 1-16, The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd, series D, volume 1.
“Christianity and Liberalism: Two Alternative Religious Approaches,” the New Pantagruel: Hymns in the Whorehouse, summer 2004, vol. 1, no. 3.
“Making a Good Constitution Better: A Response to Janet Ajzenstat,” Comment (Work Research Foundation), winter 2004, pp. 15-21.
“Differentiated Responsibility and the Challenge of Religious Diversity,” Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 5, no. 1 (spring 2002), pp. 199-207.
"Symposium: The Future of Federalism," Comment, July-August 2001, pp. 14-15.
"Voter turnout and competitive politics," Public Justice Report, vol. 23, no. 3, 2000, p. 3.
“Why Political Divorce Must Be Averted,” in Mark Charlton and Paul Barker, ed., Crosscurrents: Contemporary Political Issues, 3rd ed. (Toronto: ITP Nelson, 1998), pp. 211 ff.
"Canadian Election Accentuates Divisions Once Again," Public Justice Report, July-August 1997, p. 2.
"A Call to Reform the Canadian Electoral System," Public Justice Report, July-August 1997, p. 3.
“Hannah Arendt on Polis, Nation-State and Federation,” in Jonathan Chaplin and Paul Marshall, ed., Political Theory and Christian Vision (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994).
“Reclaiming the Polis: the Anticosmopolitan Vision and the Quest for Genuine Political Community,” Dianoia: A Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Journal, 3 (no. 2) and 4 (no. 1) 1994, pp. 83-100.
“Imaging God and his Kingdom: Eastern Orthodoxy’s Iconic Political Ethic,” Review of Politics 55 (spring 1993), pp. 267-289.
“Yves R. Simon’s Contribution to a Structural Political Pluralism,” in Michael D. Torre, ed., Freedom in the Modern World: Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, Mortimer J. Adler, Notre Dame: American Maritain Association and University of Notre Dame Press, 1989, pp. 131-9.
“Progress as an Object of Faith in the Thought of Friedrich A. Von Hayek,” Christian Scholar’s Review, 12 (no. 2) 1983, pp. 139-55.
POPULAR & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Monthly column on politics, currently titled “Principalities and Powers,” published in Christian Courier (formerly Calvinist Contact, St. Catharines, Ontario) from 1990 to the present. Other publications are too numerous to list in full and have appeared in Christian Courier, Christian Week (Winnipeg), the Catalyst (of Citizens for Public Justice, Toronto), Public Justice Report (of the Center for Public Justice, Washington, DC), Vanguard (Toronto), The Reformed Journal, Reformed Worship, New Oxford Review, The Banner (Christian Reformed Church) and Comment (Work Research Foundation, Mississauga, Ontario).
Hymn texts and tunes appearing in the Christian Reformed Church’s Psalter Hymnal (1987), Songs of Rejoicing: Hymns for Worship, Meditation, and Praise (1989), and the Mennonite Hymnal: A Worship Book (1992). Completed a collection of English texts and harmonizations for fifty of the Genevan Psalms, under the provisional title, Psalms set to be sung to the proper tunes of the Genevan Psalter. Currently in search of publisher.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association, 1983-present
Canadian Political Science Association, 1987-present.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Member, Center for Public Justice (Washington, DC), 1975-present
Correspondent for eastern Canada for CPJ’s Public Justice Report, 1989-present