Tag: political theology

Desacralizing and Evangelizing Politics

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The following is drawn from two reflections that were previously published over on the Anchored Argosy: Keeping Faith In and Out of Politics and Understanding the Boundaries Between Church and Politics.

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The Church and Politics (with Miles Smith IV)

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Dr Miles Smith, Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College, joins me to discuss the complexities of the Church’s relationship with politics. Miles is the author of the recently published Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War. Within our conversation, I also reference his recent Mere Orthodoxy article, ‘Perdition’.

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Christian Politics with Oliver O’Donovan

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This is the second of our series of conversations with Oliver O’Donovan (the first is here). In this conversation, we talk about Christian politics, touching issues such as postliberalism, Carl Schmitt, and the role of Scripture in political judgment.

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On Radical Integralism (with Dr Kevin Vallier)

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We discuss integralism with Dr Kevin Vallier, author of the recent All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism.

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Politics of Love

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I delivered a talk on the subject of a politics of love at the Theopolis Ministry Conference.

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Should We Put Flags in Churches? (with Dr Miles Smith)

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A couple of years ago, our friend Miles Smith wrote a First Things piece on the history of national flags in churches. We brought him on the podcast to discuss the issue with us.

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Yoram Hazony on Scripture as Political Philosophy

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Yoram Hazony is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is the author of The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, God and Politics in Esther, The Virtue of Nationalism, and, more recently, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. He joins me for a discussion of the Bible as a political text.

Within the conversation, I also mention Joshua Berman’s Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Eric Nelson’s The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes’s, The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel, and Yechiel Leiter’s John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible.

Conservatism (with Dr Yoram Hazony)

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Derek, Matt, and I are joined by Dr Yoram Hazony for a spirited discussion of his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery.

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Conversations in a Crisis: Part VII: Models for Resistance (with Rev Benjamin Miller)

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Part I: The Good and the Right
Part II: Improving Our Deliberation
Part III. Reforming Our Political Imaginaries
Part IV: On Submission to Government
Part V: Trust, Suspicion, and Authority
Part VI: Considering Resistance
Part VII: Models for Resistance
Part VIII: Disagreement in the Body of Christ
Part IX: The Experts and the Rulers
Part X: Living Within Our Limits

Faced with our challenge of remaining faithful within and addressing our various contemporary societal crises with wisdom, Christians and churches are fracturing over our differing approaches and postures. My friend Ben Miller suggested that we have a series of conversations, to help us to pursue greater clarity on the principles, virtues, duties, and practices that can equip Christians to meet such difficult times with prudence, insight, and courage.