Francis J. Beckwith

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he is also Fellow and Faculty Associate in the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. Although his appointment is in the department of philosophy, he also teaches courses in political science as well as in the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where he served as its Associate Director from July 2003 until January 2007.

In 2008-09 he will serve on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in Notre Dame's Center for Ethics & Culture.

Prior to arriving at Baylor in July 2003, Professor Beckwith served on the full-time faculty of the politics department at Princeton University as a Visiting Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

A graduate of Fordham University (Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy) and the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (Master of Juridical Studies), he is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), To Everyone An Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview (InterVarsity Press, 2004), Law, Darwinism & Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Do the Right Thing: Readings in Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Wadsworth, 2002), and Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (Baker Book House, 1998). His forthcoming books are Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos Press, 2009) and Is Statecraft Soulcraft?: Christianity and Politics (InterVarsity Press, 2009)

He has also published over 80 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries.  Recent articles have appeared in Christian Bioethics, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, Journal of Law & Religion, Philosophia Christi, Chapman Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Catholic Social Science Review, and Philosophia Christi.

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