Francis Beckwith

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as associate director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy as well as co-director (with Trent Dougherty) of the Program on Philosophical Studies of Religion in the Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion.  The 2016-17 Visiting Professor in Conservative Thought & Policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he was the 2008-09 Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics & Culture at the University of Notre Dame as well as a 2002-03 Visiting Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

His latest books include Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015) A Second Look At First Things: A Case For Conservative Politics – The Hadley Arkes Festschrift (with R. P. George & S. McWilliams) (St. Augustine Press, 2013); Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft (InterVarsity Press, 2010); Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos Press, 2009); Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007).