John von Heyking
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Lethbridge.
Last Contribution:
The Religious-Secular Overlap
Contributor Biography
John von Heyking is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada, where he teaches political philosophy and religion and politics.
He is author of Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (2001), and co-editor of Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought (2008) and Civil Religion in Political Thought (2010), as well as two volumes of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. The topics of his scholarly articles include friendship, cosmopolitanism, liberal education, empire, civil religion, political representation, citizenship, republicanism, just war, Islamic politics, leadership, the symbolic meaning of America, and religious liberty in Canada. His editorials have appeared in the Globe and Mail (Toronto), Calgary Herald, C2C: Canada’s Journal of Ideas, and the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. He blogs regularly on the website for the Lehrman American Studies Center.
He is currently at work on a book-length study on the political significance of friendship.
