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Natural law and socioeconomic rightsIn Tom P. S. Angier, Iain T. Benson & Mark Retter (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of natural law and human rights, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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9Christianity and the Nation-State: A Study in Political TheologyCambridge University Press. 2023.In Christianity and the Nation-State, Gary Chartier provocatively offers readers unexpected critical distance from some familiar ways of understanding, justifying, and navigating existing political arrangements. People in multiple societies are posing important questions about the authority and functions of the contemporary nation-state and about potential alternatives to this seemingly inescapable institution. Chartier seeks to develop a distinctive theological response to the conditions prompt…Read more
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4Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral LifeFortress. 2022.Is it true that all we need is love? Does love capture the essence of Christian ethics? Does a love-centered ethic need to be impartial in a way that leaves no room at ground-level for relationships and projects? What is the place of well-being in an ethic of love? Loving Creation: The Task of Moral Life seeks to answer these questions by showing how a love-ethic and an ethic of creation are not at odds but rather reinforce each other. Gary Chartier articulates a love-centered creation ethic--or…Read more
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Natural law and socioeconomic rightsIn Tom P. S. Angier, Iain T. Benson & Mark Retter (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of natural law and human rights, Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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Understanding FriendshipFortress Press. 2022.An exploration of the meaning of friendship and its moral, political, and spiritual significance.
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Contested Practices: Arthur Isak Applbaum's Ethics for AdversariesJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 16 254-77. 2002.Examines Applbaum's elaboration, on contractualist grounds, of a plausible understanding of adversarial ethics, primarily but not exclusively in the contest of the legal system. Raises criticisms of what are arguably unnecessary concessions and offers the behavior of US government lawyers in the Korematsu case as an example for consideration.
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Pirate Constitutions and Workplace DemocracyJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 18 449-67. 2010.Considers Peter Leeson's arguments regarding the economic viability of workplace democracy.
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Review of Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is (review)The Independent Review 21 302-306. 2016.
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Review of Brian Hebblethwaite, Ethics and Religion in a Pluralistic Age (review)Andrews University Seminary Studies 36 128-31. 1998.
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Review of Nicholas Lash, The Beginning and the End of 'Religion' (review)Andrews University Seminary Studies 37 125-28. 1999.
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Review of Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State, and Public Choice (review)The Review of Austrian Economics 28 361-63. 2015.
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Review of Alister McGrath, Understanding the Trinity (review)Religious Studies Review 17 143. 1991.
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Review of Adrian Thatcher, Marriage after Modernity (review)Theology and Sexuality 12 120-24. 2000.
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12Review of Anthony de Jasay, Political Philosophy, Clearly (review)Independent Review 15 603-606. 2010.
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Review of Jason Brennan, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (review)Independent Review 17 807-12. 2013.
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13Review of Jean Porter, Ministers of the Law (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011. 2011.
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3Review of Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 26 515-20. 2013.
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1Review of Peter Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 28 237-40. 2015.
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Consumers, Boycotts, and Non-Human AnimalsBuffalo Environmental Law Journal 12 123-94. 2005.Considers the ways in which alternative moral positions—consequentialism, natural law theory (adjusted to incorporate recognition of non-human animals' moral standing), and Stephen Clark's version of Aristotelian virtue ethics—respond to the question whether a boycott of the meat industry is morally obligatory. Investigates the likely responses of the various positions to a range of casuistic concerns.
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Proudhon in GreenConversations in Religion and Theology 7 230-43. 2009.An essay review of Kevin Carson's massive, interdisciplinary Organization Theory, which argues that flat organizations are preferable to hierarchical ones on economic grounds and that hierarchical organizations are competitive with flatter ones, on balance, because of state-secured privilege.
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Pursuing the Millennium Goals at the Grassroots: Selecting Development Projects Serving Rural Women in Sub-Saharan AfricaUCLA Women's Law Journal 15 71-114. 2006.Examines criteria for settling on productive and situation-appropriate development projects.
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3Response to Charles ClarkConversations in Religion and Theology 9 188-99. 2011.Addresses Charles Clark's challenges to my book Economic Justice and Natural Law.
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A Progressive Case for a Universal Transaction Tax.Maine Law Review 58 1-16. 2006.Concerns with autonomy and privacy, among other factors (including the potential to move toward a basic income scheme), could give progressives reason to favor replacing the personal income tax with a universal transaction tax (so named to distinguish it from transaction taxes just applied to consumer sales, for instance).
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La Sierra UniversityDepartment of Management and Marketing, Zapara School of BusinessDistinguished Professor