Christopher J. Eberle

Publications

A bibliography of books, articles, chapters, reviews, and current work, with links to journal records, publisher pages, and available PDFs.

Books

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics

Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Religious conviction, public reason, restraint, respect, and liberal democracy.

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Justice and the Just War Tradition

Human Worth, Moral Formation, and Armed Conflict. Routledge, 2016.

Just war theory, human worth, moral formation, and the ethics of armed conflict.

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Current and Forthcoming Work

  1. Love and Faith at War: Reflections on a Platoon Commander in Fallujah. Unpublished manuscript.
  2. “Laborde, Love of Neighbor, and Public Life.” The Routledge Handbook of Divine Command Theory, forthcoming.
  3. “Just War, Proper Emotion, and Union With God: C. S. Lewis on the Morality of War.” Routledge Companion to C. S. Lewis, forthcoming.

Articles, Chapters, and Scholarly Entries

Linked titles open journal records, publisher pages, or online texts. Separate PDF links open copies provided by journals and repositories. Some publishers require a subscription or institutional access. PhilPapers links provide bibliographic information; SSRN links lead to manuscript versions.

  1. “Love on the Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith and the Profession of Arms.” Journal of Religious Ethics 53, no. 4 (2025): 438–463.
  2. “The Continuing Quest for the Grail: Michael Perry on the Justificatory Role of Religious Reasons.” Emory Law Journal 71 (2022): 1-37. PDF.
  3. “Irreconcilable Disagreement: Supreme Emergency, Respect, and Restraint.” Social Theory and Practice (July 2021): 256-87.
  4. “Christians and Pagans in the Sacred Nation.” San Diego Law Review 56/2 (May/June 2019): 1-31. PDF.
  5. “Ought the Mighty to Punish Blasphemers?” Journal of Analytic Theology (July 2016): 390-94. PDF.
  6. “Religione, rispetto e guerra: contro la visione canonica della religione in politica.” Etica & Politica 18, no. 1 (2016): 11–33.
  7. “Rights, Goods, and Proportionate War.” The Monist 99/1 (January 2016): 70-86.
  8. “Religion, War, and Respect.” In Rawls and Religion, edited by Tom Bailey and Valentina Gentile. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 29-51.
  9. “Religion and Insularity: Brian Leiter on Accommodating Religion.” San Diego Law Review 51, no. 4 (2014), beginning at page 977. PDF.
  10. “Religion and Political Theory.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014.
  11. “Who Violates the Principles of Political Liberalism?” with Kraig Beyerlein. Politics and Religion 7 (2014): 240-264.
  12. “Comments on Anderson, Carnahan, and Wolterstorff.” Philosophia: Special Edition on Religion and Public Life 41/2 (June 2013).
  13. “Just Cause and Cyber War.” Journal of Military Ethics: Special Issue on Cyberwar 12/1 (April 2013): 54-67.
  14. “God and War: Some Exploratory Questions.” Journal of Law and Religion 28/1 (2012-2013): 1-46.
  15. “Religious Conviction in the Profession of Arms.” with CAPT William R. Rubel. Journal of Military Ethics 11/3 (November 2012): 171-185.
  16. “Shari’a Reasoning and the Justice of Religious War.” Philosophia 40/2 (June 2012): 195-211.
  17. “Religion in Public Life.” with Kevin Vallier. In The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, edited by Gerald Gaus and Fred D’Agostino. London: Routledge, 2012.
  18. “Consensus, Convergence, and Religiously Justified Coercion.” Public Affairs Quarterly 25/4 (October 2011): 281-304.
  19. “Religion, Just War, and Liberalism.” SCIO: Estudios y Propuestas en Ciencas Sociales y Humanidades (July 2010): 13-29. PDF (full issue, p. 13).
  20. “Respect for Persons and the Doctrine of Religious Restraint.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 35/1-2 (January-February 2009): 151-181.
  21. “Basic Human Worth: Religious and Secular Perspectives.” In New Waves in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Erik Weilenberg and Yujin Nagasawa. Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
  22. “Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Religious Reasons in Public.” Journal of Legal Commentary 22/2 (Fall 2007): 431-443. PDF.
  23. “God, War and Conscience.” Journal of Religious Ethics 35/3 (September 2007).
  24. “Book Discussion of A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities and Harry Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation.” Journal of Military Ethics 6/1 (2007): 75-80.
  25. “Religion and Politics.” In Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., edited by Donald Borchardt. New York: MacMillan Press, 2006.
  26. “Religion, Pacifism and the Doctrine of Restraint.” Journal of Religious Ethics 34/2 (June 2006): 203-224.
  27. “What Does Respect Require?” In Religion in the Liberal Polity, edited by Terence Cuneo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
  28. “Religion and Liberal Democracy.” In Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, edited by Robert Simon. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
  29. “What Respect Requires - And What It Does Not.” Wake Forest Law Review 36/2 (Summer 2001): 305-51.
  30. “Why Restraint is Religiously Unacceptable.” Religious Studies 35/3 (September 1999): 247-76.
  31. “Liberalism and Mysticism.” The Journal of Law and Religion 13/1 (December 1998): 189-238.
  32. “The Autonomy and Explanation of Mystical Experience.” Religious Studies 34/3 (September 1998): 299-316.
  33. “God’s Nature and the Rationality of Religious Belief.” Faith and Philosophy 14/2 (April 1997): 152-69. PDF.
  34. Social Establishment, Religious Belief and Autonomy. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
  35. Rationalization: Paradox or Partiality? Master’s thesis, Calvin College, 1989.

Book Reviews

  1. Robert Audi, Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State. Ethics 123/4 (July 2013): 745-50. Review in Ethics.
  2. George Kateb, Human Dignity. The Hedgehog Review 14/1 (Spring 2012).
  3. A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities. Ethics 117 (2006): 356-363. Review in Ethics.
  4. Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience. Ethics 116 (2006): 813-819. Review in Ethics.
  5. Paul Weithman, Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship. Ethics 116 (2006): 611-614. Review in Ethics.