Foreword
Introduction: Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier
Part 1. The Political Question
Introduction: Robin Lovin
1. The Context and Texts of Public Man, Private Woman: Jean Bethke Elshtain in the World of Ideas and Action by Arlene Saxonhouse
2. Becoming Jean Elshtain: Exploring the Intersections of Social Feminism and Civic Life by William Galston
3. Elshtain’s "Reflective" Ethics of Feminism and Family: An Appreciation and Critique by Don Browning
4. Striking the Balance: Burke’s Blending of Liberty, Tradition, and Reform by Peter Berkowitz
5. Reflections on Reflections: Democracy, Depression, and Disability by Nancy Hirschmann
Part 2. Cities of God and Man
Introduction: Michael Kessler
6. A Critical Appreciation of Jean Bethke Elshtain's Embodied Augustinian Realism by Nigel Biggar
7. Engaging the Mind of Elshtain on Sovereignty by Gilbert Meilaender
8. Taking Love Seriously: Elshtain’s Augustinian Voice and Modern Politics by Eric Gregory
9. Supremacy at Stake: Religion and the Sovereign State by Daniel Philpott
10. Sovereign No More? Selves, States, and God in Our Bewildering Global Environment by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Part 3. Nations and Citizens at Peace and War
Introduction: Marc LiVecche
11. The Education of a Just War Thinker by John Carlson
12. The Effect of Perspectives of Thinking about Sovereignty: a Dialogue with Jean Bethke Elshtain by James Turner Johnson
13. Two Sovereigns? Violence and the Ambiguities of Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Christian Realism by Nicholas Rengger
14. A New, But Still a Just War Against Terror by Chris Brown
15. Just War and Religion: Reflections on the Work of Jean Elshtain by Michael Walzer
Part 4. The End(s) of Political Life
Introduction: Erik Owens
16. Civil Society and Political Society by Francis Fukuyama
17. Religion and Democracy: Why Each Needs the Other by Carl Gershman
18. Defending the Indefensible Liberal Consensus: The Tragic Moderation of Jean Bethke Elshtain by Patrick Deneen
19. The Limits of Politics and the Inevitability of Ethics by Robin Lovin