Articles, Essays, Books Chapters and Book Reviews
Legal and Political Theory
“Foreword,” to Zachary Calo, Joshua Neoh and Keith Thompson, eds., Christianity, Ethics, and the Law: The Concept of Love in Christian Legal Thought (London: Routledge, 2023), xi-xiii (SSRN)
“Abraham Kuyper and Reformed Public Theology: Family, Freedom, and Fortune,” in Zhibin Xie, ed., Protestantism and Modernity: Abraham Kuyper, Max Weber, and Ernst Troeltsch (Hong Kong: Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, 2022), 39-59 (with Eric Wang) (in Mandarin)
“Natural Law in Europe and America (1600- ),” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022), vol. 20
“Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr., et al., eds., The Impact of the Law on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2021), 15-30 (SSRN)
“Abraham Kuyper and Reformed Public Theology,” International Journal of Reformed Theology and Life 6(3) (2020) (with Eric Wang) (SSRN)
“Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies,”Canopy Forum (September 10, 2020) (with Michael Welker)
“The Metaphorical Bridge Between Law and Religion,” [Festschrift for Robert F. Cochran, Jr.], Pepperdine Law Review 47 (2020): 435-461
“John Calvin,” in Olivier Descampes and Rafael Domingo, eds., Great Christian Jurists in French History (Cambridge University Press, 2019), 117-33 (Chinese Translation) (SSRN)
“Law, Religion, and Metaphor,” in Günter Thomas and Heike Springhart, eds., Risiko und Vertrauen / Risk and Trust: Festschrift für Michael Welker zum 70. Geburtstag (Leipzig: Evangeliche Verlagsanhalt, 2017), 177-195 (SSRN)
“Foreword,” to Rafael Domingo, God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), ix-xii (SSRN)
“Law, Religion, and Reason in a Constitutional Democracy: A Response to Lenn Goodman,” Political Theology 16 (2015): 543-559 (with Justin Latterell) (SSRN)
“’The Law Written on the Heart’: Natural Law and Equity in Early Lutheran Thought,” in Wim Dekock, ed., The Legal Teachings of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 231-265 (SSRN)
“A Prequel to Law and Revolution: A Long Lost Manuscript of Harold J. Berman Comes to Light,” Journal of Law and Religion 29 (2014): 142-169 (with Christopher J. Manzer) (SSRN)
“Introduction to Legal Studies Section,” in Michael Welker and Gregor Etzelmüller, eds., Concepts of Law in the Sciences, Legal Studies, and Theology (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 227-238 (SSRN)
“’God is Hidden in the Earthly Kingdom’: The Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Theory as Foundation of Scandinavian Secularity,” in Rosemarie van den Breemer, José Casanova, and Trygve Wyller, eds., Secular and Sacred? The Scandinavian Case of Religion in Human Rights, Law and Public Space (Göttingen/Bristol, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 56-84 (SSRN)
“Foreword,” to Robert Cochran and David VanDrunen, eds., Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013), 7-11 (SSRN)
“Law,” in Ian A. McFarland, et al., eds., The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 274-276 (SSRN)
“In Luther’s View: ‘Two Kingdoms’ Doctrine Draws Line of Separation,” The Lutheran (September, 2008): 18-19 (SSRN)
“Prime fondazioni moderne protestanti della democrazia,” Concilium rivista internazionale di teologia 4 (2007): 38-52
“Frühneuzeitliche protestantische Grundlagen der Demokratie,” Concilium Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 43 (2007): 399-409
“Brett T. Wilmot and John Witte, Jr., God’s Joust, God’s Justice; Conversations in Religion and Theology,” (17 October 2007), Wiley Online Library (SSRN)
“Introduction: The Foundations of Law,” Emory Law Journal 54 (2005): 1-11 (with Thomas C. Arthur) (SSRN)
“Rights,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids/Cambridge/ Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Brill, 2005), vol. 4, 701-709 (SSRN)
“Politics,” in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism (London/New York: Routledge, 2004), 1509-1518 (SSRN)
“Democracy,” in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism (London/New York: Routledge, 2004), 574-576 (SSRN)
“Opinion: Faith and Politics Step Out,” Globe and Mail (August 28, 2003) (SSRN)
“Law and Legal Theory,” in Erwin Fahlbusch, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids/Cambridge/ Leiden/Boston: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Brill, 2003), 219-226 (SSRN)
“Foreword,” to John E. Coons and Patrick Brennan, By Nature Equal? The Anatomy of a Western Insight (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), xvii-xxiv (SSRN)
“The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights,” South African Law Journal 110 (1993): 543-562 (SSRN)
“Introduction,” to John Witte, Jr., ed., Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (Boulder, CO/San Francisco: Westview Press, 1993), 1-14
“From Homer to Hegel: Ideas of Law and Culture in the West,” Michigan Law Review 89 (1991): 1618-1636 (SSRN)
“The Transformation of Western Legal Philosophy in the Lutheran Germany,” Southern California Law Review 62 (1989): 1573-1660 (with Harold J. Berman) (SSRN)
“Introduction,” to Herman Dooyeweerd, A Christian Theory of Social Institutions, John Witte, Jr., ed., Magnus Verbrugge, trans. (Toronto: Paideia Press, 1986), 7-30 (SSRN)
“Equity in Greek and Roman Legal Theory,” in The Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 3 (January, 1982): 1-17
“Roman Law and Legal Philosophy,” in The Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 2 (January, 1982): 1-39
“Hellenic Philosophy of Law: Essential Terms,” in The Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship: Academic Paper Series, No. 1 (November, 1981): 1-34
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