Glenn A. Moots
Professor, Political Science and Philosophy
Director, Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise
Northwood University; Midland, Michigan
(989) 837-4255
moots@northwood.edu
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Political Science)
Political Theory/Comparative Politics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
M.A. (Philosophy)
Ancient/Early Modern/Continental
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
M.S. (Financial Economics)
Economic Theory/Financial Analysis
Walsh College
Troy, Michigan
M.A. (Political Science)
Political Theory/Comparative Politics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
B.A. (Political Science/Asian Studies)
Politics/Culture of East Asia and Middle East
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Liberal Arts Education/ Officer Training
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
Aspen Institute Seminar
(Aspen Institute Executive Seminar)
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado
EMPLOYMENT
2013-2014
20102003-2010
1998-2003
1995-1998
1993-1995
1993-
Department of Politics, Princeton University
William E. Simon Visiting Fellow
James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Professor, Northwood University (Sabbatical 2013-2014)
Associate Professor, Northwood University
Assistant Professor, Northwood University (Sabbatical 2000-2001)
Instructor, Northwood University
Adjunct Instructor (Philosophy and Economics), Northwood University
Financial Paraplanner, Unique Perqs, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Adjunct Instructor (Economics and Finance), Walsh College
PUBLICATIONS AND CURRENT RESEARCH
Books
Sanctifying Liberty: Early America’s Protestant Constitutionalism
(Under contract with Oxford University Press)
Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010)
Book Chapters
“Sanctifying War: The Revolution and Colonial Wars”
(America’s Wars: A Just War Perspective, proposal under review)
“A ‘Half-Revolution’ or a Revolution Finally Completed? Protestant Theology’s Revolutionary Fulfillment in the
American Revolution” in Revolutions Finished and Unfinished: From “Primal” to “Final”
Wayne Cristaudo, Glenn Hughes, and Paul Caringella, editors. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012)
“The Covenant Tradition of Federalism: The Pioneering Studies of Daniel J. Elazar” in The Ashgate Research
Companion to Federalism
Ann Ward and Lee Ward, editors. (Ashgate Publishing, 2009)
Journal Articles (* denotes refereed journal)
“Samuel Cooper's Old Sermons and New Enemies: Popery and Protestant Constitutionalism”
American Political Thought* (accepted; forthcoming)
Co-Editor and Contributor, “Was the American War for Independence a Just War?”
Journal of Military Ethics*, projected 2015 publication
"The Protestant Roots of American Civil Religion"
Humanitas. Volume XXIII, Nos. 1&2 (2010)
“Locke and the Ancients: From Athens to Galilee”
Locke Studies* Vol. 10 (2010)
“Salus populi suprema lex: John Locke Versus Contemporary Democratic Theory” (co-authored)
Perspectives on Political Science* Volume 39, Number 1(January–March 2010)
“The Complications and Contributions of Early American Hebraism: A Response to Sheila Wolosky and Andrew
Murphy” (Symposium on American Hebraism)
Hebraic Political Studies* Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2009)
“One Protestant Tradition’s Interface with Libertarianism” (co-authored)
The Journal of Markets and Morality* Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2006)
Encyclopedia Entries
“Puritanism”
Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
“Puritanism”
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (ISI Books, 2006)
Reviews/Review Essays
The First French Reformation: Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime by Tyler Lange (Cambridge,
2014); The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure (Yale, 2013); The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious
Freedom 1685-1789 by David Garrioch (Cambridge, 2014)
Journal of Religious History (forthcoming)
George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd (Yale, 2014)
Library of Law and Liberty (http://www.libertylawsite.org/blog/) (forthcoming)
“Can we finally close political theology’s ghetto?”
Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill by Michael P. Winship (Harvard, 2012)
Anamnesisjournal.com (forthcoming)
Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, Literature and Religion edited by Hugh Adlington, Tom
Lockwood, and Gillian Wright. (Manchester University Press, 2013); America’s First Chaplain: The Life and
Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché by Kevin J. Dellape. (Lehigh University Press); James Craig: Patriot Parson.
An American Story of Religion and Revolution by Cynthia Mattson. (Dog Ear Publishing, 2013)
Anglican and Episcopal History (forthcoming)
Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds. By Francis J. Bremer. (Yale, 2012); First
Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World by Francis J. Bremer (University of New
Hampshire Press, 2012); Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill by Michael P. Winship
(Harvard, 2012)
CPS Newsletter (forthcoming)
The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution by Alice Dailey. (Notre Dame, 2012); The Myth of
Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Candida Moss (HarperOne, 2013)
Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 83, No. 4 (December, 2014)
Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King, Jr. by John Coffey (Oxford,
2014)
Choice (September, 2014)
Calvin’s Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609. By Scott M.
Manetsch. (Oxford, 2012)
Anglican and Episcopal History Vol. 83, No. 3 (Sept. 2014)
Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic by Mark David Hall (Oxford, 2013); Sacred Scripture,
Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution by James P. Byrd (Oxford, 2013)
Journal of Religious History Vol 36, No. 1 (March, 2014)
American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War by Eran Shalev (Yale,
2013)
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Vol. 112 No. 1 (Winter 2014)
“Fondling as Flourishing: Stephen Pinker’s Hymn to Autonomy”
Review of The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker (Penguin, 2012)
Anamnesisjournal.com (Published online November 19, 2013)
New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America by Michael Hoberman (Massachusetts, 2011)
American Historical Review Vol 117, No. 3 (June 2013)
A Confusion of Tongues: Britain’s Wars of Reformation 1625-1642 by Charles W.A. Prior (Oxford, 2012);
England’s Wars of Religion, Revisited edited by Charles W.A. Prior and Glenn Burgess (Ashgate, 2011); Baal’s
Priests: the loyalist clergy and the English Revolution by Fiona McCall (Ashgate, 2013)
Anglican and Episcopal History Volume 82, Number 4 (3) (December, 2013)
The Writing and Ratification of the Constitution: Practical Virtue in Action by John R. Vile (Rowman & Littlefield,
2012); The Original Compromise: What the Constitution’s Framers were Really Thinking by David Brian
Robertson (Oxford University Press, 2013)
CPS Newsletter, April-May, 2013
The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America by Chris Beneke (Penn, 2011);
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasnaoff. (Knopf, 2011); Revolutionary
Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers by Gary Kowalski (Bluebridge Publishing, 2010);
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution by Thomas S. Kidd (Basic Books, 2010); and A
Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured
Religious Liberty by John Ragosta (Oxford, 2010)
Anglican and Episcopal History Volume 81 Issue 3 (September 2012)
Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America by Mark R. Valeri (Princeton, 2010)
Journal of Religious History Volume 37, Issue 2 (June, 2013)
Russell Kirk (Volume 12 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers Series) by John Pafford.
Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place and Things Divine Vo1. 2 No. 1 (2012)
John Locke and Modern Life by Lee Ward (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Claremont Review of Books Website (www.claremont.org) (Published online December 26, 2011)
Commonwealth and the English Reformation: Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester
Vale, 1483-1560, by Ben Lowe (Ashgate: 2010); Reforming the Scottish Parish: The Reformation in Fife, 15601640 by John McCallum (Ashgate: 2010); The Search for Salvation: Lay Faith in Scotland 1480-1560 by AudreyBeth Fitch (John Donald, 2009).
Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol 80 No 4 (December 2011)
Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love by Grant Havers (University of Missouri Press, 2009)
VoegelinView.com (Published online March 29, 2011)
Christianity and American Democracy ed. by Hugh Heclo (Harvard University Press, 2007); Religious Freedom
and the Constitution by Charles L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager (Harvard University Press, 2007)
Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 77, No 2 (June 2008)
“Locke Ascending”: Review of John Locke’s Politics of Moral Consensus by Greg Forster (Cambridge University
Press, 2005); John Locke, Toleration, and Early Enlightenment Culture by John Marshall (Cambridge, 2006); The
Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004); The Two Intellectual
Worlds of John Locke by John Yolton (Cornell University Press, 2004)
Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 40 Issue 3 (Spring 2007)
The Biblical Politics of John Locke by Kim Ian Parker (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2004)
Locke Studies, Vol. 6 (2006) (excerpted at Wilfred Laurier University Press Website)
Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
by Andrew R. Murphy (Penn State University Press, 2001)
Journal of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 4 (November 2002)
"Reintroduction of An American Divine": Review of A Jonathan Edwards Reader edited by Smith, Stout,
Minkema (Yale University Press, 1995).
The University Bookman: Volume 37, Number 1 (Spring 1997)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/LEADERSHIP
Conference Presentations
2014
Paper, "The Place of Anti-Catholicism in American National Identity" (Cancelled due to illness)
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “Liberty and Progress as Benevolent Religion Extended Far and Wide”
Southern Liberty Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “Rev. Samuel McClintock and the American Revolutions”
Huntington Library Sacred and Secular Revolutions Conference
2013
Paper, “Samuel Cooper and the Supple Character of American Political Theology”
American Political Science Association
Roundtable Participant, “Was the American War for Independence a Just War?”
American Political Science Association
2012
Paper, “Our Providential Mission: The Shifting of America’s Hebraic Narrative”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Presenter At conference: Reassessing the American University: New Challenges, Perennial Purposes
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Paper, “Reinventing the Christian Nation: The Success and Failure of Reformed Political Theology”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Conference cancelled by weather)
Roundtable Participant, “Violence and Modernity: A Roundtable on Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of
Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Conference cancelled by weather)
2011
Paper, “Political Judaizers: Abraham and the Patriarchs as Founders of Early Modern Political Theory”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Symposium Participant at Colloquium: What was Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century England?
Folger Institute
Paper, “Profession, Vocation and Tradition: The Revolt of the Managerial Class”
Ciceronian Society Meeting, University of Virginia
Discussant, Chair for Panel: Confronting Normative Questions in the Study of Religion and Politics
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Workshop Director at Summer Seminar: The Constitution and American Identity
Lehrman American Studies Center/ James Madison Program Princeton University (sponsors)
Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: The Rhetoric of Democracy
Lehrman American Studies Center/Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions
Co-Organizer/Facilitator for Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: Liberalism and Liberty
Lehrman American Studies Center/Political Theory Project at Brown University
Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: What So Proudly We Hail
Lehrman American Studies Center/The Harvard Program on Constitutional Government
2010
Invited Paper, “The American Revolution” at
Conference: Revolutions Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong
APSA Short Course Presenter: Leading in Hard Times (Statesmanship and Democracy)
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Participant and Chair for Roundtable: De-Culturation and Civic Consciousness in America
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Invited Presentation, “Reformed Protestantism and American Politics”
Conference: America at the Crossroads, Liberty and Limited Government Endangered
The Philadelphia Society National Meeting
Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Colloquium/Workshop: The Founding and “Re-Founding” of America
Lehrman American Studies Center /Yale University
Co-Organizer/Facilitator of Colloquium/Workshop: Statesmanship and the Constitution
Lehrman American Studies Center /Amherst College
Discussion Facilitator/Workshop Director at Summer Seminar: America and the World
Lehrman American Studies Center /James Madison Program at Princeton University
2009
Paper, “Locke and the Ancients: Preliminary Considerations”
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “Business as Vocation: Recovering Humanity in Enterprise”
Association for Global Business Annual Meeting
Discussant for Panel: Religion and Liberalism
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2008
Discussant for Panel: Hebraism in America
Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Western Political Thought
Shalem Center and Princeton University Program in Judaic Studies
Invited Seminar Leader and Participant at Summer Seminar: The American Character
Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History/University of Colorado’s
Center for Western Civilization
Discussant and Chair for Panel: Resistance to Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God: Religion and
Revolution Revisited
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Discussant and Chair for Panel: Democracy, Pluralism and Political Freedom
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2007
Discussant and Chair for Panel, Civil Religion in the American Founding
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2006
Paper, “Whither Political Covenanting Now?”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “Appealing to Heaven”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Discussant and Chair for Panel: Locke, Charity and Welfare Rights
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2005
Paper, “Manifestly for the Good of the People: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy in Locke’s Two
Treatises” (co-authored)
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “A Polity of Conscience: What is the Significance of Locke's Argument for Toleration?”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Paper, “Emerging Natural Rights Language in Reformed Political Theology”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Invited Summer Seminar Participant: Foundational Concepts of Liberty in the American Experience
Lehrman American Studies Institute in American Ideas and Institutions/Intercollegiate Studies Institute
James Madison Program at Princeton University
2004
Paper, “Locke, Covenant and Pulpit”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2003
Paper, “Covenant, Contract and Religion”
Southwestern Political Science Association National Meeting
Paper, “The Gospel of John (Locke)”
11th International Congress on the Enlightenment/11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society
for Eighteenth Century Studies/34th Meeting of The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
2002
Paper, "The Intersection of Phenomenology and the Austrian School: The Economics of Being-in-theWorld"
Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting
Invited Liberty Fund Colloquium Participation/Leadership
2012 Colloquium Participant: Liberty and the European Roots of Progressive Thought
2010 Colloquium Discussion Leader: Disobedience to Tyrants is Obedience to God
2010 Colloquium Participant: Roger Sherman, Ordered Liberty, and the Creation of the American Republic
2009 Colloquium Participant: Rationalism, Scientism, and Liberty
2009 Colloquium Participant: The Great Awakening, Political Theology, and the Rise of American Liberty
2006 Colloquium Participant: The Liberal-Classical Debate: Appleby and Banning on the Political Thought of the
Founding Era
2005 Colloquium Participant: The Great Awakening, Political Theology, and the Rise of American Liberty
2002 Colloquium Participant: Great Men and Liberty: Politics and Literature
TEACHING
Northwood University
Political Science 3000: Political Philosophy (including Honors)
Political Science 3850: Special Topics
Philosophy 3000: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy 3300: Logic
History 4020: Current World Issues
Economics 2220: Principles of Macroeconomics
Economics 4010: Economics of Public Policies
Political Science 2010: American Government
Philosophy 3100: Ethics (including Honors)
Philosophy 4105: Critical Philosophical Problems
Philosophy 3850: Special Topics
Economics 2210: Principles of Microeconomics
Economics 3110: American Economic History
Louisiana State University
Philosophy 1000: Introduction to Philosophy (Adjunct Instructor)
Political Science 1001: Fundamental Issues of Politics (Graduate Assistant)
Political Science 2051: American Government (Graduate Assistant)
Walsh College
Management 411: Business Ethics
Economics 305/BBA 431: Business Economics
Economics 419: Economic and Financial History
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2015: Research Grant, Earhart Foundation
Institute for Humane Studies Campus Partnership Grant (Institutional)
2013-2104: William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, James Madison Program in
American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Vada Dow Faculty Excellence Grant
2013: Research Grant, Earhart Foundation
Huntington Library Short-Term Research Fellowship
2012: National Constitution Day Initiative Grant Recipient, The Jack Miller Center (Institutional)
2011: Merit Scholarship Recipient, Aspen Institute
Supplemental Grant Recipient, Atlas Economic Research Foundation (Institutional)
National Constitution Day Initiative Grant Recipient, The Jack Miller Center (Institutional)
Atlas Economic Research Foundation Teach Freedom Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional)
2010: Samuel R. Marotta Faculty Ethics Award, Northwood University
Honors Student Teaching Recognition Award, Northwood University
American Political Science Association Campus Teaching Award Recognition
Atlas Economic Research Foundation Teach Freedom Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional)
Atlas Economic Research Foundation Sound Money Initiative Grant Recipient (Institutional)
2009: Higher Education Initiative Grant: The Jack Miller Center/Veritas Fund’s Center for the American
University (Institutional)
2008: Annual Fellow, Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History
2007: Northwood University Innovation Award
2005: Lehrman American Studies Center Summer Institute Fellow
2004: Northwood University Faculty Excellence Award
2003: Scholarship Recipient, Earhart Foundation
2002: Salvatori Fellow, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Calihan Fellow, Acton Institute
Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Scholars Grant
Scholarship Recipient, Goodrich Fund, Earhart Foundation
2000: Sabbatical, Northwood University; Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University
Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University
1998: Senior Class Faculty Excellence Award, Northwood University
1996: Honors Student Teaching Recognition Award, Northwood University
1995: Delta Mu Delta Membership, Gamma Eta Chapter: Walsh College
SERVICE
Additional Lectures/Seminar Leadership
2015: “God and Constitutionalism”
(Louisiana State University)
2014: Seminar discussion of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration and Summary View; Jefferson’s American Legacy
(Eastern University);
“Do the Laws of Nature Need Nature’s God?”
(Pomona College);
“What do we mean by a ‘Christian Nation?’”
(Providence College)
2011: “Educated, Trained, or Called? Moving From a Business Education to a Satisfying Profession,”
(Bentley University);
“Christian America? The View from History”
(Hope College);
“Is There a Christian America?”
(Patrick Henry College)
Seminar discussion of Politics Reformed with graduate students and fellows
(University of Virginia Politics Department/Program in Constitutionalism and Democracy)
Seminar discussion on themes of democracy, virtue and religion in early American politics
(Regent University)
2010: “Reformed Protestantism and American Politics” at Conference: America at the Crossroads: Liberty and
Limited Government Endangered.
(Philadelphia Society National Meeting)
Guest Editor and Symposium Organizer
Journal of Military Ethics
Executive Leadership
2013- present: Board of Directors Member: Eric Voegelin Society
2011- present: Editorial Board - Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place and Things Divine
Journal Referee
Journal of Church and State, Contemporary Political Theory, Politics & Religion, Review of Politics,
Journal of Markets & Morality
External Tenure Reviewer
External Reviewer, Promotion and Tenure Application, Robert Morris University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
External Examiner for Thesis/Dissertation
Matt Sheedy, M.A. degree October 2007, Graduate Study in Religious Studies/Philosophy, Memorial University
(Newfoundland, Canada) – Thesis Title: “Locke's Inheritors: An Examination of the Theological Underpinnings of
the Letter Concerning Toleration and Its Implications for the Modern Dilemma of Religious Toleration.”
Shaun DeFrietas, L.L.M degree November, 2003, Graduate Study in Law, University of The Free State
(Bloemfontein, South Africa) - Dissertation title: “Samuel Rutherford on Law and Covenant: The Impact of
Theologico-political Federalism on Constitutional Theory”
Shaun DeFreitas, L.L.D. degree August 2013, Graduate Study in Law, University of The Free State
(Bloemfontein, South Africa) - Thesis title: “Law and Federal-Republicanism: Samuel Rutherford’s Quest for a
Constitutional Model”
News Outlets
Quoted in NYT, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, World, Huffington Post, The Tennessean, Ft. Worth StarTelegram, Kansas City Star, CBN on David Barton Controversy (2012)
Conference Panel Organization
APSA Annual Meeting: 2013, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
SPSA Annual Meeting: 2014, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
MPSA Annual Meeting: 2009
Book Proposal Referee
Cambridge University Press
University Service: Chairman: Political Science and Philosophy; Director, Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise; Student
Advisor, National Society of Leadership and Success; Honors Program Faculty Council (2004-2010); Michigan
Curriculum Committee (1999-2008); Terms to Semesters Curriculum Transition Committee (2008-2009);
WebAdvisor Implementation Committee (2003) Blackboard Pilot Program (2002-2003); Online Curriculum Task
Force (2006); Assistant Coach - Northwood University Forensics (intermittent)
Textbook consultation
ITP, McGraw-Hill, Mayfield; Addison-Wesley, Pearson/Prentice Hall Publishing (as requested)
Consultation
Social Science Advisory Board, Delta College; Ontario Provincial Police/Toronto Metropolitan Police GOLD
Program (2001)