Ralph C. Hancock

Ralph C. Hancock (PhD 1983, Harvard) is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he teaches the tradition of political philosophy as well as contemporary political theory.  His research and writing focus on the meaning and limits of modern rationalism in relation to religious and ethical-political  traditions. 

He has twice taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes, France, and was a Visiting Scholar at Liberty Fund in Indianapolis.  He is the author of Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Cornell  1989; new edition from St. Augustine’s Press) and  The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age (Rowman & Littlefield). 
Dr. Hancock is also the editor of four books, translator (from the French) of three  others and of numerous articles and chapters, and author of numerous articles and reviews in moral and political philosophy. 

He is the founder and President  of the John Adams Center  for the Study of Faith, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (johnadamscenter.com).  Meridian Magazine has published a number of his essays on problems of religion and politics for LDS.