Political Theology

Against a Christ-less Christianity

Despite growing enthusiasm among secular and formerly secular public intellectuals for Christianity’s civilizational legacy, Christianity divorced from genuine faith in Jesus can never be the answer.

Can Christians be Patriots?

Defying critics on both left and right, Daniel Darling’s “In Defense of Christian Patriotism” calls on believers to love their country.

Martin Wight’s Postliberal Idealism

In “The Deeper Revolution How Worldviews Shape Western International Politics,” Emily Lange recovers the historically substantial and theologically rich deconstructions of the international system articulated by Martin Wight

Marxist Christianity: The God that Failed

100 years ago, the English translation of Karl Kautsky’s “Foundations of Christianity,” a seminal text in the Marxist interpretation of the history of religion, was published. Though wrong about nearly everything, his material understanding of Christianity has spread far and wide and is thus deserving of a response.

C.S. Lewis and the Preaching of Patriotism 

How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we are born?

The Art of Symphonia: Lessons from Byzantine Political Theology 

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the concept of “symphonia,” where church and state are not separate but work in harmony, has long been the ideal

The Evangelical Political Theology of Charlie Kirk’s Funeral

For decades, mainline protestantism acted as America’s de-facto establishment church. Today, evangelicalism functions as an unofficial state religion for much of America

Calvin, Theocracy, and Holy War 

Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society

Largest Longitudinal Study of Human Flourishing Ever Shows Religion’s Importance 

The results of the Baylor/Harvard Global Flourishing Study survey have just been released, showing empirically the importance of religious observance as one of the most significant factors in self-reported wellbeing from across 22 countries

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