Greg M Forster

Freedom and School Choice in American Education (Education Policy)

Leading intellectual figures in the school reform movement, all of them favoring approaches centered around the value of competition and choice, outline different visions for the goal of choice-oriented educational reform and the best means for achieving it. This volume takes the reader inside the m...

John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement: Justice as Unfairness

This book critiques the Rawlsian concepts of “justice as fairness” and “public reason” from the perspective of Christian political theory and practice. The Rawlsian paradigm has become pervasive in multiple disciplines outside political philosophy and is unconsciously embedded in a great deal of Chr...

John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus

The aim of this highly original book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate beliefs Locke sought to unite so...

Starting with Locke

John Locke is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of modern western society. His contributions to a huge range of philosophical debates are as important and influential now as they were in the seventeenth century. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Locke provide...

The Joy of Calvinism: Knowing God's Personal, Unconditional, Irresistible, Unbreakable Love

The Bible’s command to “rejoice continually” seems impossible and, frankly, unreasonable. Yet despite the apparent difficulty in fulfilling this commandment, Gregory Forster argues that Calvinism holds the key—namely that “real Calvinism is all about joy.”Forster passionately holds to this belief, a...

The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics

Christian thinking about involvement in human government was not born (or born again!) with the latest elections or with the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. The history of Christian political thinking goes back to the first decades of the church's existence under persecution. Building on bib...

Revisiting 'Faithful Presence': To Change the World Five Years Later

In 2010, James Davison Hunter published his landmark book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. On the five year anniversary of its publication, eight contributors critique the book's thesis and assess its effect on the ongoing interaction...

Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It (Cultural Renewal)

Can the church regain its cultural influence? The church in America is losing ground. Unfortunately, our efforts to reverse this trend often seem to do more harm than good. In Joy for the World, Greg Forster explains how the church lost its culture-shaping voice and what Christians can do to turn t...

John Locke's Politics Of Moral Consensus

Healing Love's Wounds: A Pastoral Approach to Divorce & to Remarriage

Education Myths: What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools- And Why It Isn't So