John D. Wilsey is a senior fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy. He is professor of church history and philosophy and chair of the Department of Church History and Historical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His academic speciality is in American intellectual history, particularly religious nationalism and conservatism. He is the author of Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer (forthcoming), God’s Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea, and One Nation Under God: An Evangelical Critique of Christian America. A respected authority on the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Wilsey has contributed chapters to two edited collections on Tocqueville. He has also edited an abridgment of Tocqueville’s most famous work, Democracy in America: A New Abridgment for Students. In addition to the CRCD, Wilsey has held fellowships at Princeton University, the University of Louisville, the Acton Institute, and the Russell Kirk Center.
