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James W. Skillen is the president of the Center for Public Justice and is author of numerous books on politics.
He received his B.A. from Wheaton College in philosophy and a B.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary. After graduate study in philosophy at the Free University of Amsterdam, he completed his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, both in Political Science. He is married to Doreen, the Center of Public Justice's administrator. They have two children.

An interview by Bruce Wearne with Jim Skillen is available here.











Articles

The numbers relate to Bruce Wearne's bibliography of Skillen's work


323
. 'Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea: Herman Dooyeweerd’s Political and Legal Thought' The Political Science Reviewer XXXII pp.318-380. [with permission of The Politcial Science Reviewer, which  can be accessed here.]



On-line (off site) resources

Articles

  •    41. “Herman Dooyeweerd’s Contribution to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences” Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 31(1) (March 1979) pp.20-24
  •    48.Unity and Diversity Among States: a Critique of Assumptions in the Study of International RelationsPro Rege 8:1 (1979) pp.9-36
  • 307. E Plurbus Unum and faith-based welfare reform Princeton Seminary Bulletin 22 (3) (2001)
  • 320American Statecraft, the united nations and Iraq   Pro Rege 31: 1-12 (2003)
  •  335. Reading the Bible in public Comment Feb 2007 26(2)



  • Kuyper and neocalvinist political options (1995) Kuyperian

    Articles from the CPJ site include:

  • Intelligent Courts, Schools, and Science
  • The image of God: male and female

  • Reviews

    With or Against the World by Bruce Wearne

    Interviews
    • by Guthrie - interviews Skillen and John Porter (mp3)
    • by Bruce Wearne here.
    Lectures
    • Covenant seminary Francis Schaeffer Institute 'Choosing Sides in the Debate Over the Bible's Political Directives' (2003)(mp3)
    • Choosing Sides in the Debate Over the Bible's Political Directives Q & A (mp3)





    Books


    • With or Against the World?: America's Role Among the Nations (Rowman and Littlefield and Center for Public Justice, 2005).
    • In Pursuit of Justice: Christian-Democratic Explorations (Rowman and Littlefield and Center for Public Justice, 2004).

    • Co-editor with Rockayne McCarthy, Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society (Eerdmans, 2001)

    • A Covenant to Keep: Meditations on the Biblical Theme of Justice (Grand Rapids: CRC Publications and the Center for Public Justice, 2000). 

    •  Co-editor with with Stanley Carlson-Thies,  Welfare in America: Christian Perspectives on a Policy in Crisis (Eerdmans, 1996)

    • Recharging the American Experiment: Principled Pluralism for Genuine Civic Community (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1994).
    • The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990);
    • Co-editor with Rockne M. McCarthy, Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991), No. 2 in Emory University Studies in Law and Religion, ed. by John Witte, Jr.

     

     

    Some of Jim's works are available in the UK from The Christian Studies Unit.