In these Carlyle Lectures, given at the University of Oxford in January and February 2016, I suggested that between 1650…
The sacred and the social
society
Robert P. Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
University of Cambridge historian John Robertson will be delivering this year's Robert P. Benedict Lectures on the History of Political…
Why corporations have religious freedom
The legal status of corporations as fictive persons is well-lampooned in the bumper sticker that reads, “I’ll believe corporations are…
The return of sacred history
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…
An intended absence? Democracy and The Unintended Reformation
The long-term consequences of the Reformation have been a subject of heated debate for many decades. Most accounts have taken…