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Rebellion: When, Why, and How–A Synthesis of Recent Reading
I recently read three books in succession that, without intending such an outcome, I found to be linked conceptually. The three books, in the order I read them: In my synthesis of these three books’ ideas, I’m going to deal with them out of order. First, I’ll deal with Camus, then Cunningham, and, finally, with […]
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Teleology and a Biblical Perspective on the State
My last two posts have concerned ideas related to arguments made in Stephen Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism. Reactions to my initial post on the topic argued against the relevance of my case that Wolfe’s assertion that civil government’s orgins are natural and prelapsarian is not supported by Scripture. I, on the other hand, disagree. […]
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Why Pre- and Postlapsarian Assumptions Matter for Protestant Political Theory
My last post, wherein I gave my initial reaction to Stephen Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism, got a little more attention than I had anticipated. Most of that attention came via the de facto public square of Twitter. One reaction to that post is particularly helpful in that they thought my argument against Wolfe’s prelapsarian […]
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My Initial Reaction to Stephen Wolfe’s “Case for Christian Nationalism”
The conservative Protestant interwebs have been abuzz over the last week in response to the release of Stephen Wolfe’s book, The Case for Christian Nationalism. As one might expect on platforms like Twitter, a lot of the discourse surrounding the book and its claims falls short when it comes to nuance, sophistication, and reasoned arguments. […]
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The Problem is in the Genes: Considering the Genetic Fallacy in Public Discourse
Of all the things that our educational institutions can be criticized for, the one thing that bothers me more than perhaps any other is their failure to teach the habits of good reasoning. This includes, of course, formal and informal logic and concepts like deduction, induction, and abduction. Also included is the ability to recognize […]
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Own Your Bias
Given the state of public discourse in the United States today, I can anticipate at least one possible reaction to my previous post, based on my criticism of tolerance as a moral virtue. The predictable reaction is that by criticizing tolerance as a moral virtue I am implicitly encouraging intolerance. But this is not the […]
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Neutrality is Nonsense
In my last post, I mentioned how my own upbringing involved being taught that Christians ought to avoid conflating their religious beliefs with political opinions and positions. Although I don’t have any hard evidence to back it up, I would also claim that most of the adult believers within my immediate sphere, who had a […]
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The Political Consequences of the Resurrection
If Jesus is risen, then all things are subject to him. The Son of Man lays claim to dominion over the earth’s “peoples, languages, and nations.” This is an explicitly political claim. Therefore, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is politically consequential. He is the object of the Christian’s ultimate loyalty and, therefore, a direct threat to the state insofar as it is controlled by forces that resist his dominion.
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Postmodernism, the Rejection of Metanarrative, and the God of Self
In the previous post, I briefly mentioned the problem of the postmodern rejection of and antipathy for metanarrative. This antipathy toward metanarrative is traced back to Jean Francois Lyotard. It, along with the general assertion within postmodernism that there are either no objective facts, or at least, no way for us to know that we […]
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