2.60 Andy Naselli, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “What Is the Spectrum of Major Views on Political Theology? A Proposed Taxonomy of Seven Views on Religion and Government”

Timestamps

• Introduction – 00:44
• Where Did Andy Naselli Begin Studying the Issues of Political Theology? – 02:55
• Naselli’s Internship With American Reformer 04:14
• Wellum’s Take on Naselli’s Article – 05:21
• Defining ‘Religion’ and ‘Government’ and Why Those Terms are Better for this Conversation – 07:16
• Notable Things in The First and Second Views – 10:00
• Unpacking the Third View (Classical Liberalism) – 13:46
• Knowing About John Rawls – 16:08
• The Fourth View – 17:20
• View Four and Five are Not Christian Nationalists – 21:12
• First and Second Tables of the Law Applying Today with Views Four & Five – 22:06
• Did the ‘Baptist Project’ Require Christendom? – 23:34
• The Fifth View and the Magisterial Reformers – 27:00
• What About the In-between Views? – 34:25
• The Sixth View, Rushdoony, and Islam- 37:26
• The Seventh View: Government Enforcing Religion – 42:16
• Reflections After Research – 46:22
• Where Should We Start With Political Theology? – 51:21
• What to Do Right Now? – 57:00
• Final Thoughts – 1:01:38
• Outro – 1:03:51

Resources to Click

• “What Is the Spectrum of Major Views on Political Theology? A Proposed Taxonomy of Seven Views on Religion and Government” – Andy Naselli
• “Winsomeness Can Be a Virture or a Vice” – Andy Naselli
• “The Drivetrain: The MacArthur Center’s New Podcast Episode on Theological Triage”- Andy Naselli
• “Christian Nationalism – The Way Ahead in Our Day? A Review Essay (Part 1)” – Brad
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• “Christian Nationalism – The Way Ahead in Our Day? A Review Essay (Part 2)” – Brad Green
• Albert Mohler Interview on Christian Nationalism – Christ Over All Podcast
• “The Relationship of Church and State” – Jonathan Leeman
• “What Would an Ideal Polity Look Like From a Christian Perspective?” – Jonathan Leeman
• “Conservatives Clash on the Goal of Government” – Jonathan Leeman
• “Bringing the Apocalypse to Drag Queen Story Hour” – Jonathan Leeman
• “’Christian Nationalism’ Misrepresents Jesus, So We Should Reject It” – Jonathan Leeman
• “For Religious Liberty: Why My Kids and Yours Need Religious Freedom” – Jonathan Leeman
• “Say No to Christian Nationalism” – Jonathan Leeman
• “How to Get a Do-It-Yourself MA in Political Philosophy” – Justin Taylor
• “American Culture Is Broken. Is Theonomy the Answer?” – Andrew T. Walker
• “Protecting Christian Political Theology from the Shibboleth of “Christian Nationalism”” – Andrew T. Walker
• “What We Lose in the Decline of Cultural Christianity” – Andrew T. Walker
• “Against Catacomb Christianity” – Andrew T. Walker
• “Book Review: The Case for Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Wolfe” – Andrew T. Walker
• “’My Kingdom is Not of this World’ The Lordship of Christ and the Limits of Government” – John Piper
• “Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin: Pondering the Implications of the 2020 Election” – John Piper
• “The Baby and the Bathwater” – Ryan T. Anderson & Robert P. George
• A Protestant Political Theology Roundtable – The London Lyceum
• “What is Christian Nationalism?” – Mike Sabo
• “Spheres of Sovereignty: Church Autonomy Doctrine and the Theological Heritage of the Separation of Church and State” – Robert Joseph Renaud & Lael Daniel Weinberger
• “Against ‘Religious Liberty’” – W. Bradford Littlejohn
• “Christian Nationalism or Christian Commonwealth? A Call for Clarity” – W. Bradford Littlejohn
• The Two Kingdoms That Weren’t – Douglas Wilson
• General Equity Theonomy – Douglas Wilson
• “’My Kingdom is Not of this World,’ Which is Why We Were Instructed to Pray for it to Come” – Douglas Wilson
• “All of Christ for All of Life” – Douglas Wilson
• How to Save the World (in Eleven Simple Steps) [Canon Plus Documentary] – Douglas Wilson
• “Identity or Influence? A Protestant Response to Jonathan Leeman” – Joe Rigney
• “The Tao in America: Culture War and The Abolition of Man” – Joe Rigney
• “The Myth of ‘Liberal Secular America’: A Reply to D.G. Hart” – Joe Rigney and Glenn A. Moots
• “American Separationism” – Glenn A. Moots
• “Was the Protestant Reformation a Radical Revolution?” – Glenn A. Moots
• “Christian Nationalism: A Primer for the Layman” – Josh Daws
• “Is There Anything Distinctive about a Christian—and Specifically Biblical—Understanding of the Relationship between Church and State?” – D.A. Carson
• “What is the Regime? Part 1” – Josh Abbotoy
• “Does Christianity transcend all our Political Disagreements?” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Liberty, Pandora, and the Serpent” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Why Reformed Evangelicalism Has Splintered: Four Approaches to Race, Politics, and Gender” – Kevin DeYoung
• Systematic Theology 3: Lecture 1: Introduction to James Bannerman and Patronage – Kevin DeYoung
• Systematic Theology 3: Lecture 2: Defining the Church/Church and State – Kevin DeYoung
• Systematic Theology 3: Lectures 3&4: Church & State/Ecclesiology & Sacraments – Kevin DeYoung
• Systematic Theology 3: Lecture 4 Continued: God & Government – Kevin DeYoung
• Systematic Theology 3: Lectures 5&6: The Nature and Extent of Church Power/Church Power in Doctrine & Worship – Kevin DeYoung
• “How Do Christians Fit Into the Two Party System? They Don’t” – Tim Keller
• Hillsdale College Online Course List
• “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” – Aaron M. Renn
• Welcome to the Negative World Conference – Aaron Renn, Joe Rigney, & James Wood
• “The Lure of Theocracy” – Philip Yancey

Books to Read

• Understanding World Religions in 15 Minutes a Day – Garry R. Morgan
• Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept – Brent Nongbri
• Sidney: Court Maxims – ed. Hans W. Blom, Eco Haitsma Mulier, and Ronald Janse
• Pocket Dictionary of Ethics: Over 300 Terms Ideas Clarly Concisely Defined – eds. Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith
• Christ and the Kingdoms of Men: Foundations of Political Life – David C. Innes
• The Desire of Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology – Oliver O’Donovan
• From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought – Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan
• Christ and Culture Revisited – D.A. Carson
• The Gagging of God – D.A. Carson
• Political Thought in Europe, 1250-1450 – Antony Black
• Political Church: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule – Jonathan Leeman
• How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age – Jonathan Leeman
• Church Matters: A New Christian Authoritarianism?: Christian Nationalism, Theonomy, and Magisterial Protestantism – eds. Jonathan Leeman, Taylor Hartley, Alex Duke, David Daniels, etc.
• God and Politics: Four Views on the Reformation and Civil Government – ed. Gary Scott Smith
• Church, State, and Public Justice: Five Views – ed. P.C. Kemeny
• Politics According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture – Wayne Grudem
• Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics – Robert Benne
• Five Views on the Church and Politics, Counterpoints Series – Zondervan Publishing
• Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption – ed. Mark L. Ward Jr.
• Karl Marx (Great Thinkers) – William D. Dennison
• The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church – Gregory A. Boyd
• American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea – John D. Wilsey
• One Nation Under God?: An Evangelical Critique of Christian America – John D. Wilsey
• Civil Religion: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy – Ronald Beiner
• The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster – John Howard Yoder
• The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics – Stanley Hauerwas
• Two Treatises of Government: And a Letter Concerning Toleration – John Locke, ed. Ian Shapiro
• John Locke’s Politics of Moral Consensus – Greg Forster
• Harvard Classics Vol. 26: Continental Drama
• Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know – Jason Brennan
• Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies – David Koyzis
• John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement: Justice as Unfairness – Anthony B. Bradley and Greg Forster
• A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State – D.G. Hart
• Baptist Political Theology – eds. Thomas S. Kidd, Paul D. Miller, and Andrew T. Walker
• Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age – Andrew T. Walker
• Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George – ed. Andrew T. Walker
• To the Judicious and Impartial Reader: A Contextual-Historical Exposition of the Second London Baptist Confession – James M. Renihan
• Citizens and Exile: Christian Faithfulness in God’s Two Kingdoms – Scott Aniol
• Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World – David VanDrunen
• Politica – Johannes Althusisus
• A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity – John Gill
• Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth – Mark David Hall
• Politics and Piety: Baptists Social Reform in America, 1770-1860 (Monographs in Baptist History) – Aaron Menikoff
• The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and th Moral Conditions of Freedom – Thomas G. West
• Conservatism – Yoram Hazony
• Separation of Church and State – Philip Hamburger
• The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology – W. Bradford Littlejohn
• The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed Davenant Guides – W. Bradford Littlejohn
• Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology – ed. Glenn A. Moots
• The City of God – Augustine
• Law and Liberty, 2^nd – R.J. Rushdoony
• Institutes of Biblical Law Vol.1-3 – R.J. Rushdoony
• Reconstruction: R.J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism – Michael J. McVicar
• As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman History, 2^nd edition – Jo-Ann Shelton
• Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom – Peter J. Leithart
• The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution – Carl R. Trueman
• Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution – Carl R. Trueman
• Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church; Christ’s Two Kingdoms – Matthew J. Tuininga
• Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities That Save the World – Douglas Wilson
• Mere Christendom – Douglas Wilson
• Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative – Douglas Wilson
• The Case For Christian Nationalism – Stephen Wolfe