Category: Politics
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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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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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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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Eight Criteria for a Biblical Political Theology
Here are my criteria for a political theology: 1. It must incorporate special and general revelation, since biblical law and creational law were designed to work together. Special revelation is the lens through which we interpret nature, but God never intended either form of revelation to stand alone (e.g., special revelation was given even before…
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Election Day Notes: Cast Your Vote and Move on with Your Life
In case no one has told you, we have election coming up next Tuesday. Some people think it’s a pretty big deal, so here are my pastoral guidelines for Christian citizens this time around. First, Jesus is Lord. That is our whole political confession. Obviously, the implications of Christ’s lordship have to be worked out,…
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