Daniel Strand Lecture: “God’s Vocation for Government”

By Daniel Strand on October 23, 2017

The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference.

Daniel Strand argues that theology must determine the way that Christians think about politics. He argues that a proper understand of government vocation starts from the work of God, that Christians must consider divine rule before they talk about human rule.

Christianity and National Security Conference 2017 | Theology

Daniel Strand is a professor who teaches courses on the just war tradition, ethics and leadership, and contemporary political ethics. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University (2015-19) in the History Department and the Program in Political History and Leadership. Strand’s research interests include the political and moral theology of Augustine of Hippo and the Augustinian tradition, ethics and foreign policy, the just war tradition, bioethics, and moral theory. He is the author of the forthcoming Gods of the Nations (Cambridge University Press), a historical study of Augustine’s political theology in The City of God. He has published articles and book chapters on Augustine of Hippo, Hannah Arendt, and the ethics of euthanasia. He is a contributing editor at Providence. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota, MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and PhD in religion and ethics from the University of Chicago.

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