Tag: Christian Nationalism
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A Christian Defense of James Lindsay’s Interpretation of Gnosticism
James Lindsay, of New Discourses and Sovereign Nations, has come under fire in the de facto public square of Twitter over his definition and application of the term Gnosticism. Lindsay’s efforts over the last few years in pushing back and exposing the intellectual foundations upon which so many civilization-destroying ideologies rest is undeniable. The attacks […]
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The Monopoly on Violence and the Christian View of the State
There is general agreement within the academic disciplines related to political science that the concept of “the state” is founded upon the idea, most famously recognized by Max Weber, as a “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” (Acemoglu, et al. 2013, 6). This idea is more colloquially known as […]
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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. […]
Of Gods and Governments 