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Justin Hawkins

Justin R. Hawkins is a postdoctoral researcher in bioethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2024.

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Justin Hawkins

Justin R. Hawkins is a postdoctoral researcher in bioethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2024.

Justin HawkinsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Joys That Only Saints Can Know

Leppin's biography of St Francis admirably complicates the life of the great saint, but sometimes in ways that still look a lot like debunking.

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Dignity Beyond Accomplishment - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgment. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to quantify, to classify, and to punish. It establishes over others a visibility through […]

Justin HawkinsTheology

Understanding Nicaea 1700 Years Later: An Annotated Guide

The errors and points of debate present at Nicaea are more complex than is often understood. If you want help grasping the issues well, read these books.

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Natural Law from Noah to Milton Friedman | Mere Orthodoxy

David VanDrunen's "Politics After Christendom" presents a jarringly stale political program built on an innovative reading of the Noahic covenant.

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What the Coronavirus Reveals: An Invitation to American Evangelicals Who Have Been Quoting that C.S. Lewis Essay - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The argument of this essay is simple. I want to invite Christians, particularly American evangelicals, to a new consideration of how the coronavirus might cause them to rethink what kind of healthcare policy ought to mark a flourishing society. I […]

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The War of All Against One: Why Christians Should Not Be Populists

Working from the thought of Rene Girard, Justin Hawkins explains how populism fails to measure up as an authentically Christian political theory.