Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Wolfe and Wilson: Questions about Christian Nationalism
I realize Canon Press and the Moscow guys are pushing Wolfe’s book hard, but it seems to me this must represent some kind of shift. Wolfe’s approach relies on Thomism and natural law (no hint of anything theonomic from what I can see so far) and emphasizes dichotomies like nature/grace and secular/sacred. These are not the…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 3)
I’m not any further into Wolfe’s book but I did see his twitter thread from yesterday. Wolfe rejects ecclesiocentrism. It is not clear to me that the ecclesiocentrism he rejects is the same thing as the ecclesiocentrism someone like me might affirm. It is also not clear that Wolfe’s version of Protestant “two kingdom” political…
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Horton and Leithart on Church, Christendom, Theonomy, and Constantine
This is a good, wide ranging interview with Michael Horton and Peter Leithart. While Horton makes it known that he disagrees with Leithart’s approach to Christians in the public square, he asks good questions here. There was one “gotcha” question from Old Testament law, but it turned into one of the best parts of the discussion…
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Watching the Mid-term Game Film….
Nothing original here, but four quick take-aways from the mid-terms this week: 1. We are in a deep mess and we cannot vote our way out of it. Politics is downstream from culture. The culture is corrupt and so our politics is corrupt. Corrupt voters, swayed by a corrupt media, elect corrupt leaders who pass…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 2)
1. I didn’t necessarily find every detail of Wolfe’s discussion of prelapsarian life convincing, but such speculations (if guided by Scripture) are entirely appropriate and useful. I agree with Wolfe that civil government is a creation ordinance that would have existed in an unfallen world as a way of organizing and structuring social life (e.g,…
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A Summary of Ecclesocentrism
Think of the layout of a medieval city. The church is at the center of town and the steeple is its high point. The church’s position as society’s center and summit is represented geographically and architecturally. But this does not mean the church is the only sphere that matters; they did not try to cram…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism
I put up a Facebook post earlier today raising questions for Stephen Wolfe and his “Christian Nationalism” project. Because it got so many responses, I figure I’d share a few more thoughts, but it is much easier to do so on a blog than Facebook. First, I expect that I will like much of Wolfe’s book,…
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With the mid-term elections upon us….
With mid-term elections right around the corner, here is my advice on how to cast your ballot: Vote for the candidates that hate you the least.
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Frame on Natural and Special Revelation
This article from John Frame cuts through a lot of the common misunderstandings of the relationship and use of special revelation (Scripture) and natural revelation. Note that Frame (and Van Til) do not deny that we can learn truth from our reason and our senses interacting with the rest of God’s creation. There is no such…
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