Politics and Power
The fact that political power may be used for evil provides no valid reason for it to be rejected or ignored. Power must be used for good.
The fact that political power may be used for evil provides no valid reason for it to be rejected or ignored. Power must be used for good.
So many difficulties would be easier to solve if Christians could rightly separate, without radically divorcing the two kingdoms.
Proverbs is addressed to Israel’s king, but just like all of the non-political proverbs in the book, the ones having to do with political order are timeless.
Certain aspects of how God made the world do not cease to be operative simply because sin has twisted and deformed those institutions.
Politics, as a reflection of the image of the God who first ordered and forever rules the world, is fundamental to who we are as human beings.
Citizens living according to virtue in good republics. That is the Christian political project in a nutshell.
The primary blessing of cultural Christianity has to do with culture, society, and laws.
It is not sufficient to say that Christians must be bold, confident, and faithful, as if gentleness, always normative, simply need be supplemented with courage.
The poor, the humble, the hungry and thirsty, are those who fill themselves with Christ and all the riches of salvation that are found in him alone.
Stephen Wolfe’s new book The Case for Christian Nationalism is causing quite a stir in the world of conservative evangelicals.