Stephen Wolfe

| instauratio magna | President of Institute of Christian Politics | Author of The Case for Christian Nationalism | email: [email protected]

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

Kevin DeYoung has chosen the CN study committee members. They are free to contact me at any time.

To aid them in their study, here's a selection of my work:

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

Ironic that it was the Roman Catholic position that civil magistrates cannot exercise theological judgement. The Reformers held the opposite view.

So, the “semper reformanda” folks actually “reformed” back to the papist position.

David Pareus:

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guy: “do not politicize the gospel”

same guy: “the gospel commands us to welcome the immigrant”

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Sorry Cartesians. Descartes was OWNED, by a princess.

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A princess—Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—refuting Descartes’ substance dualism is one of my favorite anecdotes of philosophical history.

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I bet that over two-thirds of Protestants in the US hold Baptist theology, and they’re still afraid of what the Presbyterians will do to them.

Baptists, You don’t have to live like this.

[Alvarez @thejjalvarez]

@PerfInjust Baptists for CN is like chickens for KFC.

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But it’s not an issue only with recent Baptist political thought. Presbyterians today say it all the time.

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Baptists in recent years have written entire books refuting the idea that the state can coerce faith—an idea that literally no Protestant in history affirmed.

Darling repeated that refutation like a month ago.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Actually Baptists are doing very good work on church and state. You just don’t like the fact that it’s still . . . Baptist.

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

Sorry guys. You’ll probably have to wait until the Spring to read it. Complicated business.

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Finishing up a long essay arguing that Baptist theology does not logically deny Christian nationalism, Baptist church establishment, or suppressing false religion.

tl;dr Baptist and Presbyterian CNs are friends.

[Timon Cline @tlloydcline]

America itself is inescapably Calvinist (as Josh Mitchell & others have shown), but point taken.

Can’t help but note however that this move is essentially, “yes, it’s an evangelical future but not highbrow Protestantism.” Ok.

This is just a recognition of a perennial American reality. It’s not high church.

The future isn’t Pentecostal, tho (& I definitely don’t notice Wesleyan churches exploding).

What Matt is noticing is the frontierist, revivalistic impulse that, again, is just part of America.

The future is non-denominationalism. Most of non-denom is de facto Baptist tho I predict you’ll see more of other groups going to unaffiliated models (again, as a short term future to grapple with past decade of disruption & inept institutions). We’ll see.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The playbook will go something like this: 1) win back the House and Senate, and hopefully the Presidency in 2028; (2) admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which doesn’t need a constitutional amendment, to gain 4 new Senate seats and cement control; (3) pack the Court, which only requires a change to the Judiciary Act of 1869, not a constitutional amendment; (4) eliminate the electoral college, which is unconstitutional, but not when you have a rigged court that finds the ‘loophole’; (5) flood the country with pliant migrants, swamp the natives, and hold power indefinitely.

[James R. Lawrence III @jlawrencenc]

Moore has backed virtually every major American military intervention in recent history, but is compelled by an evolving “pro-life ethic” to denounce the death penalty in cases where a defendant is tried, convicted, and has every opportunity to appeal.

[Eschatology Matters @Eschatology22]

Should Government Enforce God's Law? | Christian Nationalism Debate SECORD vs BAIRD
TONIGHT 7PM EST

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This is why, among other things, that civil government ought to promote true religion.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

You can’t restrain irrational passions by reason alone.

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It is not a problem for Christians at all. https://t.co/jooxNdoqKP

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Hazony doesn't make this distinction because he's Jewish. But, more fundamentally, I think he's correct that *political* nations form organically when they are taught to see other clans as family, which is what God does in the OT.

But this is exactly what the NT does too! This isn't a problem for Hazony, because he doesn't accept the NT. But it's a problem for Christian Nationalists who want to accept his reasoning.

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@NeilShenvi @PineTreePatrick No it is not. https://t.co/jooxNdoqKP

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If you knew the variety of people who have attended Thiel lectures, I don’t think you’d condemn attendance.

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guy: “do not politicize the gospel!”

Same guy: “those post-liberals are outside the faith”