Christianity, Culture and the Two Kingdoms (VanDrunen, 2010)
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Why The Torture Abuse Scandal Matters (Hunsinger, 2005)
Hunsinger calls for four steps to challenge continuing torture by the US saying that “Nothing less is at stake in the torture crisis than the soul of our nation.”
A proposal for how Christians and non Christians should relate to each other in the light of Alasdair MacIntyre, Germain Grisez and Oliver O’Donovan’s work (Bretherton, 2001)
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Bowing Before Christ – Nodding to the State? Reading Paul Politically with Oliver O’Donovan and John Howard Yoder (Dorothea H. Bertschmann, 2012)
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Communicating the Good: The Politics and Ethics of ‘The Common Good’ (O’Donovan, 2016)
The language of the common good, like the language of property which exemplifies it, is Janus-faced. Looking back it points to a concrete givenness of community, a present and existing form within which we have been given to communicate with others, and which we cannot ignore without great blame. Looking forward, it can invite us to think of a City of God, a sphere of universal community, and encourage us to seek intimations of it from the future. But only so far can it take us. It cannot ease us through the portals of the City of God up the steps of a ladder of dialectical reconciliations.
The Case For Kingship in The Narrative Books And The Psalms (Howard, 1988)
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The Legacy of the Scottish Independence Referendum (Biggar, 2016)
Nigel Biggar examines the impact on national identity of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. He reports recent social scientific evidence showing that the steady upward trend of Scots identifying themselves as British continues unabated, and argues that this implies that a large majority of Scots want ‘independence’ only within the United Kingdom.
The nation state and the case for remaining in the EU (Biggar 2016)
There may well be good reasons for Britain to remain in the E.U. But if that is so, the unchristian nature, or the obsolescence, of the nation-state is not one of them.