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Recent articles and interviews
“How to live well with enemies: Biblical Guidance for Today’s Politics” National Association of Evangelicals Magazine (USA), cover story.
Re-Enchanting Podcast Interview on how to think theologically about elections when in 2024 more than sixty countries will hold national elections in which more than two billion people are eligible to vote.
‘Christianity and Democracy,’ St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology , on-line
The Disrupters Podcast interview on what a healthy politics involves and how to live with those who one finds strange or threatening
Interview with Luke Bretherton by New York Times columnist, David Brooks, for Comment Magazine on Christian humanism.
Books
Luke Bretherton, A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Luke Bretherton, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019)
Luke Bretherton, Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015].
Luke Bretherton, Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing.
Luke Bretherton, Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Routledge, 2006).
Academic Articles
Luke Bretherton, ‘Theology and Social Science,’ The Modern Theologians , eds., Rachel Muers and Ashley Cocksworth, 4th edn (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024).
Luke Bretherton, ‘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.
Luke Bretherton, ‘Christian humanism, redivivus,’ in T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology, ed., Rubén Rosario Rodríguez (London: Bloomsbury, 2019)
