Nicholas Buck | Writing

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

• “The Moral Problem of Augustinian Idolatry” (under review).
• “An Ethics of Mutual Belonging: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent Vision” (invited contribution to edited volume, under review).
• “Being on the Receiving End: Awe as Disclosure,” Annali di studi religiosi (forthcoming).
• “Love’s Archeology: Ethics and Metaphysics between Iris Murdoch and William Desmond,” The Heythrop Journal 65.2 (March 2024): 123-137.
• “The Logic of Kingian Nonviolence: A Synthetic Account of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Political Thought,” Journal of Religious Ethics 52.1 (March 2024): 26-49.
• “Prophetic Personalism: Martin Luther King, Jr., Rufus Burrow, Jr., and the Development of an Ethical Tradition,” Encounter 81.3 (2021): 37-59.
• “On the Nature and Purpose of Marriage,” Encounter 76.2 (2016): 9-32.

Public Writings

• “Which is Worse: A White Lie or a Painful Truth?” American University Magazine, December 2024.
• “Responsiveness to the World: The Art of Attention and the Pursuit of Living Well,” ABC Religion & Ethics, September 1, 2024.
• “Critical Race Theory, Replacement Theories, and the Challenge of Political Belonging,” ABC Religion & Ethics, August 25, 2022.
• “COVID-19 and the Limits of Utilitarianism,” Sightings, June 11, 2020.
• “A Peace that Serves Injustice is No Solution,” Indianapolis Star, “Faith & Values,” June 7, 2020.
• Co-written with Amy Carter, “An Increase in the Minimum Wage is a Moral Obligation,” Indianapolis Star, “Faith & Values,” August 13, 2017.
• “Refugees Deserve Our Compassion, Not Suspicion,” Indianapolis Star, “Faith & Values,” December 13, 2015.
• “Free Markets Shouldn’t Determine the Value of Health,” Indianapolis Star, “Faith & Values,” October 11, 2015.

Book Reviews

• Molly Farneth, The Politics of Ritual, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2023).
• Fred Dallmayr, Democracy to Come: Politics as Relational Praxis, in Contemporary Political Theory 18, no. 4 (2019): 251-254.
• Daniel R. Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holiendre (eds.), The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2018).
• George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou (eds.), Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine, in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2017).
• Cathleen Kaveny, Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square, in Symposia: The Journal of Religion 8 (2017): 51-52.
• Timothy P. Jackson, Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy, in Political Theology 18, no. 2 (2017): 172-173.