Christianity arose during the time of the Roman Empire – and God used that otherwise pagan empire that was steeped in a lot of natural law principles to bring about the expansion of the Christian faith as we know it today. We look at how with Paul DeHart.

Guest Info

Paul R. DeHart is Professor of Political Science of Texas State University in San Marcos. He is author of The Social Contract in the Ruins (University of Missouri Press, 2024) Uncovering the Constitution’s Moral Design (also with the University of Missouri Press, 2007; 2017) and editor (with Carson Holloway) of Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014). He has published articles in journals such as Polity, Critical Review, Locke Studies, Perspectives on Political Science, the Catholic Social Science Review, and National Affairs.

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