Publications

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (New York: Facts on File, 2002).

Jefferson and Ataturk: Political Philosophies (New York and Berne: Peter Lang, 2000).

The Political Thought of John Taylor with William Hill, (in progress).

Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson’s Virginia co-edited with Daniel Dreisbach (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

The Political Philosophy of James Madison (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

What Would Jefferson Say? (New York: Penquin Books, 1998).

The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press: 1991, 1993). Also published by Popular Prakashan, Bombay, India, 1993; and Respublica Publ., Moscow, Russia, 1996).

What Would Jesus Do? (a novel) Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1993.

Religion and Politics: Major Thinkers on The Relationship Between Church and State. Edited. (New York and Berne: Peter Lang Publishing, American University Studies, 1990).

The History of Political Theory: Ancient Greece to Modern America (New York and Berne: Peter Lang Publishing, American University Studies, 1988, 1991, 1993).

Articles

“Thomas Jefferson” in The Encyclopedia of American Studies (2000)

“Electic Synthesis: Jesus, Aristotle and Locke” in Thomas Jefferson and The Politics of Nature Thomas Engeman, Editor (Notre Dame University Press, 2000).

“Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Theory and American Practice,” USA Economics Politics Ideology  (Moscow: Forthcoming).

“The Classics and Jefferson’s Political Philosophy” and “Liberalism vs. Republicanism: Where Does Jefferson Stand?” in Great American Presidents, ed. by Kenneth W. Thompson (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995).

“Jefferson and Jeffersonian Democracy:” “Thomas Paine;” “The Declaration of Independence” The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Seymour Martin Lipset, Editor (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995.)

“Church and State” American Academic Encyclopedia (New York: Forthcoming).

“Mr. Jefferson’s Political Theory” in Kenneth Thompson, ed. The Political Theory of the Constitution (University Press of America, 1990).

“Those Dogmatic Debates Between Right and Left Ignore Academe’s Tradition of Intellectual Liberty”  The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 26, 1989.

“Religion and Politics” in Religion and Politics Syllabi Book, Rex Rogers ed. (Cedarville: 1988).

“Religious Freedom in Jefferson’s Virtuous Republic,” Politics and Policy VII, 1987.

“Thomas Jefferson,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: 1987).

“The Virginia Gentry and Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: A Study in Political Culture,” Virginia Social Science  Journal (Winter, 1984).

“John Locke in Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence: A Thematic Collation,” Virginia Social Science  Journal (Winter, 1984).

“The Ethical Heresies of the Neoconservatives,” Journal of Religious Thought Fall/Winter, 1981-1982.

“Learning,” The Independent (Special Edition on The University), May, 1977.

“Rousseau, Robespierre and the French Revolution of 1789,” Dialogue, April, 1976.
 

Reason and Republicanism Edited by Gary McDowell and Sharon Noble, William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming).

The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson.
Introduction by F. Forrester Church (Beacon Press, 1991), in Virginia Magazine of History and  Biography, October, 1992.

Tragedy and Denial by Michael Brint (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991) in International Journal of  Philosophy (forthcoming).

The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs by Ted G. Jelen (New York: Praeger, 1991), in Journal of  Church and State, Spring, 1992.

The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789 by Joshua Miller (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), in  Journal of Politics, November, 1992.

New Order of the Ages by Michael Lienesch (Princeton University Press 1988) in American Political  Science Review, December 1989.

The Critical Legal Studies Movement by Roberto Unger (Harvard University Press), CHOICE , December, 1986.

Liberalism and Its Challengers by Alonzo Hamby (Oxford University Press), CHOICE , September, 1985.

The Political Presidency: Practice of Leadership from Kennedy Through Reagan by Barbara Kellerman,  WORLDVIEW April, 1985.

The Future of the Democratic Revolution by Neil Riemer, CHOICE , April, 1985.

The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right From The Great Depression To The Cold War by leD Ribuffo, WORLDVIEW October, 1984.

The Political Theory of The Federalist by David Epstein, CHOICE October, 1984.

The American Political Science Association Panel on The Political Theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  Society for Rousseau Studies, Spring, 1981.
 

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American Political Science Association Meeting, “Christianity in James Madison” Sept. 2000, Washington, D.C.

New England Political Science Association Conference, Roundtable on Jefferson’s Political Thought, Providence, RI, May, 1999.

American Political Science Association Meetings, Discussant on “Creating Community in the Classroom” Panel, Sept. 1999, Boston, Mass.

Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Conference on “Integration and Disintegration in the Modern World: Russia and the and the West” paper entitled “Religion and Social Change in American Democracy.” Moscow, Russia October 9-14, 1996.

Moscow University, Lectures on American democracy, society and religion. October 15-16, 1996.

“Religion and Political Thought in Nineteenth Century America” Panel Discussant, American Political Science Association Meetings, August 30, 1996, San Francisco.

“Democracy and Christianity in Madison and Jefferson” The Jefferson Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June 4, 1996.

“Philosophical and Theological Foundations of Jefferson’s Thought” at Conference: Religion in Jefferson’s Virginia, Charlottesville, January, 1996 sponsored by Virginia Foundation Humanities.

“The Sheldon Collection” presentation at The Virginia Festival of the Book, March 1996, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Oxford University, The Jefferson Symposium in England, a series of seven lectures on the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (using The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson as the Symposium text) cosponsored by the University of Virginia and Oxford University, August 22-26, 1993, Trinity College, Oxford.

“Jefferson and Religion” and “Jefferson and Slavery,” The Jefferson Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June, 1993.

Library of Congress, conference on Thomas Jefferson and the Education of the Citizen in a Republic, May, 1993.

The Christian Thought Lectureship, “Early American Political Philosophy and Christianity” and “In His Steps: 1890's and 1990's” at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, April, 1993.

Chair and Discussant, “The Roots of Early American Political Philosophy” Northeastern Political Science Association conference, Providence, Rhode Island, November, 1992.

“The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson: Just When You Thought He Couldn’t Do Anything More,” The Jefferson Symposium, University of Virginia, June 3, 1992.

“Culture, Multiculture and Freedom of Speech in American Academia,” Union College, April 9, 1992.

Organizer and Chair, Roundtable on “Liberalism and Republicanism in Early American Political Thought,” American Political Science Association Conference, August, 1991, Washington, D.C.

“Reconciling Liberalism and Classicism in Thomas Jefferson’s Political Philosophy,” The Miller Center, University of Virginia, March 15, 1991.

Chair, “Weber, Power and Charisma” panel, American Political Science Association Convention, August, 1990, San Francisco.

“The Federalists.” Symposium on the Constitution sponsored by The Jefferson Foundation, Washington, D.C. August 1, 1990.

“The Classics in Thomas Jefferson’s Political Philosophy”: The White Burkett Miller Center for Public Policy, University of Virginia, April 1990.

Discussant, “The Founding Theory of The American Constitution” panel, American Political Science Association Convention, September, 1989, Atlanta.

Discussant, “Religion and The Founding of Regimes” panel, American Political Science Association Convention, September, 1989, Atlanta.

“Co-chair and Discussant, “Critical Questions and Epistemological Directions in Modern Political Philosophy,” Northeastern Political Science Association Meetings, November, 1988, Providence, Rhode Island.

Republicanism and Liberalism in Jefferson’s Political Philosophy,” Southern Political Science Association Conference, November, 1988, Atlanta.

“The Liberalism versus Republicanism Debate in Jefferson’s Political Theory,” American Political Science Association Convention, September, 1988, Washington, D.C.

“Leadership and Democracy in Jefferson’s Political Theory,” for PI SIGMA ALPHA Political Science Honor Society, Lynchburg College, April 14, 1988.

“Jeffersonian Democratic Theory,” Southwestern Political Science Association Convention, Spring, 1988, Houston.

“Jeffersonian Constitutionalism,” Southern Political Science Association Convention, November, 1987, Charlotte.

Discussant, “The Communitarian Presuppositions of the Constitution’s Liberalism” panel, American Political Science Association Convention, September, 1987, Chicago.

Discussant, “Ratifying the constitution” panel, Southern Political Science Association Convention, November, 1986, Atlanta.

“Religious Freedom in Jefferson’s Virtuous Republic,” American Political Science Association Conference, September, 1986, Washington, D.C.

“Freedom of Religion in Jefferson’s Virtuous Republic,” Southern Political Science Association Convention, November, 1985, Nashville.

“Thomas Jefferson’s Classicism in Psyche and Polis,” Conference of Virginia Political Scientists, December, 1984, Radford.

“The National Natural Aristocracy: Mr. Jefferson’s Theory of Presidential Elections and Classical Democracy,” Conference of Virginia Political Scientists, December 1983, Charlottesville.

“Religious Freedom and Civic Virtue in Thomas Jefferson’s Political Philosophy,” Annual Political Studies Conference, University of North Carolina - Asheville, September, 1983.
 
 

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