Don’t tell the government. “It is a principle of common sense,” Spencer Roane said (pg. 145, Irreconcilable Founders), “as well as common law, that a deputy cannot make a deputy. The power of changing the government was, therefore, not bested
Contra Ed ‘They Bought My Seat’ Gallrein “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Thus
In practice, yes. Is revival prerequisite to a Christian government? The question is a significant divide in the world of Christian Nationalism. Stephen Wolfe argues that it isn’t, that revival is “not the only antecedent condition” to Christian laws, though
A complicated topic. Among the ideas at once most thoroughly pervasive of theology’s crossover with philosophy and the least immediately obvious from Scripture, in my experience at least, is the doctrine of the absolute unity of God. Every Christian knows
State, Church, Family…? The civil government usually claims, now and across human history, to be the distinguishing and unitary factor of each society. On occasion the religious institution, the ‘church,’ makes a grab for the same, but it does so
Some often unrecognized parts of his mastery. Tolkien is recognized far and wide as a master of worldbuilding, of language, and of legend. Some dislike his implementations. Some despise his theology. Some say a lot of things. But, as a
Partisanship just isn’t avoidable. [As of transfer to this archive, I’m not as confident in this article as at time of writing, though it makes valid points.] Gerrymandering is a difficult topic to analyze. We can all see the blaring
Reviewing Wolfe’s evidence. Is theonomy a novel doctrine in church history? According to Stephen Wolfe, it is novel at least to Reformed theology. To a very small extent, he succeeds. But he succeeds much less than he purports, going by
Is Scripture sufficient? In a recent article (probably the most recent one, but I’ve jumbled the order before), I made some acerbic remarks on Stephen Wolfe’s assertions in Biblical sufficiency in A Study Report on Reformed Christian Politics (though in fairness he’s
Stephen Wolfe takes on theonomy, and it doesn’t go well. I must confess to being disappointed by the chapter of A Study Report on Reformed Christian Politics (by Stephen Wolfe et al) which dealt with theonomy. I did not expect Wolfe to