Allen Speight (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. A recipient of Fulbright, DAAD and Berlin Prize Fellowships, he is the author of Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2001); The Philosophy of Hegel (McGill-Queen's University Press/Acumen, 2008) and of numerous articles on aesthetics and ethics in German idealism; he is also co-editor/translator (with Brady Bowman) of Hegel’s Heidelberg Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2009); and co-editor of Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict (Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 2013).Michael Zank, a native of Germany, holds advanced degrees in Protestant Theology and Near Eastern and Judaic and Studies. He teaches religious studies and philosophy of religion at Boston University where he also servesas director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author, most recently, of Jewish Philosophy of Religion as Mosaic Faith Apologetics (Tübingen 2016; in German) and of Jerusalem. A Brief History, forthcoming with Blackwell Publ.

• Introduction.- I.  Authority, Conscience, Toleration, Secularism:  Theologico-Political Questions from the Tradition. -The Authority of Conscience in Early Modern England and New England:  A Reconsideration, D. Hall.- Hobbes And Locke On Toleration, S. Sreedhar.- The Secular, Secularizations, And Secularisms, J. Casanova.- From Augustine To Spinoza And Locke: Answering The Christian Case Against Religious Liberty, E. Curley.- Madison's Politics Of Religion Revisited, N. Feldman.- II.  The Question of Political Theology.- How To Read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, S.B. Smith.- World-Denial And World Redemption:  Franz Rosenzweig’s Early Marcionism, B. Pollock.- Miracles In An Age Of Technological Reproducibility, B. Lazier.- The Anti-Trinitarian Sources Of Liberalism, M. Gillespie.- Confronting Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise: Hermann Cohen Vs. Franz Rosenzweig, M. Bienenstock.- On Being A Mediocre Believer In An Age Of Extremities, C. Mathewes.- Jürgen Habermas And The Social Significance Of Religion, P. Gordon. - Political Theology And Biblical Atheism:  Revising The Schmitt-Strauss Debate In Weimar, J. McCormick.​