Francis J. Beckwith

Fellow

Francis J. Beckwith is Associate Director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, and Associate Professor of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, where he is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Church and State. A graduate of Fordham University (Ph.D., M.A. in philosophy) and the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (M.J.S.), he was a 2002-03 Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in the Politics Department at Princeton University. His books include Law, Darwinism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Do the Right Thing: Readings in Applied Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2nd. ed. (Wadsworth, 2002); The Abortion Controversy: 25 Years After Roe v. Wade, 2nd ed. (Wadsworth, 1998); Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Baker, 1993); and The New Mormon Challenge (Zondervan, 2002), a finalist for the Gold Medallion Award in theology and doctrine. His works have been published in numerous journals, including: Harvard Journal of Law Public Policy; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Faith and Philosophy; Journal of Church and State; Nevada Law Journal; Journal of Social Philosophy; Journal of Law and Religion; Social Theory and Practice; Ethics & Medicine; Public Affairs Quarterly; International Philosophical Quarterly; Southern Baptist Journal of Theology; San Diego Law Review, and Philosophia Christi.