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A Public Faith
A Public Faith
Evangelicals and Civic Engagement
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
The essays in this volume look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life. The contributors examine evangelical Christians' beliefs and activities on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the essays show that the social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere makes an essential contribution to the public good.  [Read More]
A Preserving Grace
A Preserving Grace
Protestants, Catholics, and Natural Law
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, January 27, 1997
A host of questions that surround the notion of natural law are examined and debated by a distinguished group of scholars--Russell Hittinger, Susan Schreiner, Daniel Westberg, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Carl E. Braaten, Timothy George, William Edgar, and Robert P. George.   [Read More]
Caesar's Coin Revisited
Caesar's Coin Revisited
Christians and the Limits of Government
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, April 7, 1996
"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," said Jesus, "and to God the things that are God's." What does this mean in a time and place drastically different from first-century Palestine? As more and more Christians from differing traditions exercise power in the political arena, what theological principles should shape their views of the role of government? Protestant and Catholic scholars of diverse views debate these questions in Caesar's Coin Revisited.   [Read More]
Creation at Risk?
Creation at Risk?
Religion, Science, and Environmentalism
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, October 1, 1995
The environmental movement both echoes and challenges traditional Judeo-Christian views about humankind's proper relationship to the natural world. Ten scholars and activists here explore--and clash over--some of the scientific, religious, moral, philosophical, economic, and political claims advanced by contemporary environmentalists.  [Read More]
Disciples and Democracy
Disciples and Democracy
Religious Conservatives and the Future of American Politics
Edited by Michael Cromartie, Irving Kristol
Posted: Sunday, January 1, 1995
The religious right, currently the subject of intense press attention, is here scrutinized by both insiders and outside observers. Journalists Fred Barnes (The New Republic), Michael Barone (U.S. News & World Report), and E. J. Dionne (The Washington Post), activists Ralph Reed (Christian Coalition) and Michael Farris, and scholarly analysts John Green, Allen Hertzke, Michael Horowitz, Richard Land, and George Weigel examine the agenda of religious conservatives, their influence upon the 1992 election, and whether and how they can increase their political influence in the next four years. In a foreword, Irving Kristol calls religious conservatives "the very core of an emerging American conservatism." The volume, published jointly by the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Eerdmans, includes brief comments by eighteen other informed observers as well.   [Read More]
No Longer Exiles
No Longer Exiles
The Religious Right in American Politics
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Saturday, December 26, 1992
In this provocative collection nine distinguished observers give their assessments of what the Religious New Right has achieved and what its potential is for the rest of this decade. Historian George Marsden of Notre Dame, sociologist Robert Wuthnow of Princeton, and political scientists Robert Booth Fowler of the University of Wisconsin and Corwin Smidt of Calvin College ponder its past and future from their varying perspectives. Five other scholars—James L. Guth, Carl F. H. Henry, James Davison Hunter, Grant Wacker, and George Weigel—offer challenging responses, and nine prominent activists and experts add insightful comments.  [Read More]
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New Books
The Latest Books from EPPC Scholars

Faith, Reason and the War Against JihadismEPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's new book is essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism and points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.
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EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman recounts the history of honor, noting that it is inseparable from the history of mankind. While honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century in the West, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States.
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EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen writes a warm and affectionate memoir of her days as a school girl in a fundamentalist Christian school in St. Petersburg, Florida where "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again.
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Mark Noll
What is an "Evangelical"?
A thoughtful look at a complicated notion

Mark Noll, professor at Wheaton College, delivered a lecture on "Understanding American Evangelicals" at EPPC's 2003 conference in Key West, Florida. He provides the history of evangelical movements, discusses the number of American evangelicals, and takes the measure of evangelical hymns. An elegant and eloquent presentation for those curious about what it means to be an evangelical. 


American Catholic Opinion on Church Issues
Major new study on the views of American Catholics and opinion leaders

Pollster John Zogby recently came to the Center to discuss the results of a new survey comparing the views of Catholic leaders with those of the laity. The details of his results are now available online, along with a transcript of the analysis provided by George Weigel, Alan Wolfe, and Rev. J. Bryan Hehir.