Category: Christian Nationalism
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Home: What Christian Nationalism Is Really About
Christian nationalism grows out of and is undergirded by Christian familialism. There can be no Christian nation where there are not countless Christian families. And where there are happy and holy Christian families, the broader Christianization of the nation is sure to follow. Christian nationalism starts around the dining table. It starts in neighborhoods and…
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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My Christian Nationalism
I am not really a fan of the “Christian nationalism” label. The “nationalism” bit carries too much baggage. But if I did want to identify myself as a Christian nationalist, Francis Scott Key’s hymn “Before the Lord We Bow” would define the term for me. Key is best known to Americans as the author of our national…
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Ecclesiocentrism (Again!)
This is a repost from 2022. Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture. The church is the central and most important thing in the world and in history. That’s it — that’s the fundamental claim. Ecclesiocentrism can be found on almost every page of the Bible. Some examples: These paragraphs from…
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Zephaniah’s Christian Nationalism (Sermon Follow-up)
This is a follow up to my January 1, 2023 sermon. My opening comments on the passage are not on the audio here (thought you can get them on the YouTube stream of the service here), so I will reproduce those comments here, along with a few other notes. Today’s sermon builds off of last week’s sermon, though…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 6): Isker Counter-Punches
My friend Andrew Isker has weighed in on the Christian nationalism debate with a response to Peter Leithart’s short statement on Christian nationalism. A few weeks ago, Larson Hicks and I interviewed Isker about his book (co-authored with Andrew Torba) on Christian nationalism. Like Isker, I also noticed the dichotomy in Leithart’s piece on a nation seeking its own good…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (5): Mattson Weighs In
Mattson’s review of Wolfe’s book is well worth reading if you have been following the discussions on Christian nationalism. I might not agree with Mattson on every particular criticism and I certainly find a few more points of agreement with Wolfe’s social commentary in the second half of his book, but Mattson offers a pretty convincing…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 4)
I appreciated a lot of Wolfe’s critique of VanDrunen’s radical two kingdom view, including the way he brought out its latent antinomianism. But there are still some problems with Wolfe’s two kingdom view, especially the heaven/earth, sacred/secular dualism built into it. I do not think Wolfe has done justice to the Calvinistic transformationalists (CT). Many…
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A Political Theology for the Present Moment
We do not live in the Christendom world inhabited by the Reformers. What it means to affirm a sacred/secular dichotomy in a Christendom situation is not the same as what it means to affirm that kind of dichotomy in a post-Christendom situation. We cannot just quote Althusius (or whoever) as if it were adequate to…
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A Quick Primer on What it Means to Be Ecclesiocentric
Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture. The church is the central and most important thing in the world and in history. That’s it — that’s the fundamental claim. Ecclesiocentrism can be found on almost every page of the Bible. Some examples: These paragraphs from Doug Wilson’s post this week is…
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