Brad Littlejohn
Fellow
Brad Littlejohn, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping public leaders understand the intellectual and historical foundations of our current breakdown of public trust, social cohesion, and sound governance. His research investigates shifting understandings of the nature of freedom and authority, and how a more full-orbed conception of freedom, rooted in the Christian tradition, can inform policy that respects both the dignity of the individual and the urgency of the common good. He also serves as President of the Davenant Institute.
Brad Littlejohn, Ph.D., is a Fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping public leaders understand the intellectual and historical foundations of our current breakdown of public trust, social cohesion, and sound governance. His research investigates shifting understandings of the nature of freedom and authority, and how a more full-orbed conception of freedom, rooted in the Christian tradition, can inform policy that respects both the dignity of the individual and the urgency of the common good. He also serves as President of the Davenant Institute.
A scholar and writer in the fields of Christian ethics, historical theology, and conservative political thought, he earned his PhD in Theological Ethics at the University of Edinburgh in 2014, where he studied the relationship of freedom and authority in the English Reformation. He is the author of The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty and The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed, among other books, as well as numerous peer-reviewed and popular-level articles and book chapters on topics ranging from freedom of conscience to the nature of property rights to the moral architecture of digital technology.
In 2013 he founded the Davenant Institute, an organization dedicated to retrieving and renewing the Protestant theological and ethical tradition, and frequently writes, speaks, and teaches for their publications, conferences, and courses. He has also taught at Moody Bible Institute and Patrick Henry College, and served as Headmaster of Loudoun Classical School.
Most recently, he worked as a Senior Fellow of the Edmund Burke Foundation as lead author on multi-year project entitled “Foundations of Liberty: Rediscovering the Anglo-American Conservative Tradition.” His essays arising out of this research have appeared in journals such as National Affairs, American Affairs, The American Conservative, First Things, and Modern Age.
He is also a weekly Opinion Contributor at WORLD Magazine, and publishes regularly on questions of Christian ethics and political theology for outlets such as The Gospel Coalition, American Reformer, Desiring God, and Mere Orthodoxy.
Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State: A Review
Brad Littlejohn
Brad Littlejohn reviews a new book that appreciates — but struggles to comprehend — the breadth of Early Modern Protestant political thought.
Ad Fontes Journal / August 14, 2023
If You Like America, Thank Christianity
Brad Littlejohn
Christians in America have gotten used to being on the defensive.
The Public Discourse / August 8, 2023
Look out for tyranny in the marketplace
Brad Littlejohn
Threats to freedom come not only from government
Articles
WORLD Opinions / July 28, 2023
Gratitude matters, even in war
Brad Littlejohn
Ukraine would be well served by more gratefulness to the West
Articles
WOLRD Opinions / July 21, 2023
The Whore of Babylon and the Specter of Universal Monarchy: Protestant Roots of American Foreign…
Brad Littlejohn
For more than three decades now, the most powerful nation on earth has lacked a truly national foreign policy.
Articles
Humanitas Volume 36, Issue 1 / July 20, 2023
Florida takes a stand
Brad Littlejohn
It’s right for the state to discriminate against communism
Articles
WORLD Opinions / June 29, 2023
A baby made by three?
Brad Littlejohn
Just because we can produce children with three “parents” doesn’t mean we should
Articles
WORLD Opinions / June 22, 2023
National Conservatism, Then and Now
Brad Littlejohn
As American conservatives increasingly feel the cultural and political headwinds blowing against them, some have begun to mutter, only partially in jest, that it is time to start thinking again about secession.
Articles
National Affairs / June 20, 2023
Harboring the evil amongst us
Brad Littlejohn
Instagram gets away with dragging its feet in dealing with child pornography
Articles
WORLD Opinions / June 20, 2023
Want Stronger Families? Pay Workers More
Brad Littlejohn
You cannot have a strong nation or a strong economy without strong families.
Articles
First Things / June 15, 2023