Publications

Published Works 

• What is Political Theology? Co-authored with anthropologist Valentina Napolitano and religious studies and Black studies scholar Vincent Lloyd (Columbia University Press, 2026). 

• A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 

• Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019). 

• Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press, 2015) 

• Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing.  

• Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Routledge, 2006). 

Published Articles

• ‘Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano,’ Modern Theology (2026) 

• ‘Usury, Debt, and the Ethics of Mutuality: Toward a Theological Reordering of Economic Life,’ Studies in Christian Ethics (2026). 

• ‘On Conversion: Toward a Christian Ethic of Transformational Change,’ Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 46.1 (2026): 73-95. 

• ‘Christianity and Democracy,’ St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology, on-line (2024) 

• ‘Anglican Political Theology,’ Anglican Theological Review 106:1 (2024): 1-17.  

• ‘Political Theology, radical democracy, and virtue ethics; Or Alasdair MacIntyre and the paradoxes of a revolutionary consciousness,’ Political Theology, special issue 22.7 (2021): 627-649. 

• ‘Theology and Social Science,’ The Modern Theologians, eds., Rachel Muers and Ashley Cocksworth, 4th edn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2024). 

• ‘Political Theology and Qualitative Research,’ The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research, eds, Pete Ward & Knut Tveitereid (Wiley Blackwell, 2022). 

• ‘Political theology, religious diversity, and the nature of democratic citizenship,’ Political Theology, special issue 21.4 (2020): 318-338. 

• ‘Politics in the service of society: A response to my interlocutors,’ Studies in Christian Ethics 33:2 (2020), 262-270. Response to a review symposium on Christ and the Common Life. 

• ‘“How Shall we Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land?” A Response to the Symposium’ Political Theology 12.3 (2011): 358-369.  Response to a review symposium on Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness.