Status Updates From The Case for Christian Nati...

Wolfe criticizes Ray Ortlund and Russell Moore for celebrating the death of cultural Christianity. I find myself somewhat between Wolfe and Moore. I want two things to be true: (1) the church is as much as possible filled with regenerate believers, and (2) common grace is something to be thankful for. But the church's mission is not cultural socialization, I agree with Moore on that.

"Paedobaptism is the position most natural to Christian Nationalism... When the body politic are baptized, all are people of God... credobaptism likely creates problems for Christian Nationalism... Paedobaptism is consistent with CN theology because it makes possible a society that is baptized in infancy and thus is subject to Christian demands for all of life."

Not. At. All. Suprised.

Proud to be a Baptist

"Unity in Christ does not entail or provide unity and earthly particulars, which are necessary for living well in this world. Though the people of God share the highest good, that does not make any random selection of them mutually suitable for civil fellowship."

He believes the government should and ought to build churches, fund seminaries, suppress public blasphemy, heresy, or profanity, and enforce sabbath observance.

"Just as grace clarifies for sinful man his true end and supplies the means to attain it, Christianity completes the nation by ordering the law, customs, and social expectations to heavenly life."

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The more I read, the more alarmed and deeply uncomfortable I become...

"A Christian people, who's good is found in cultural particularity can and must be for itself as a distinct people." (135)

"Blood relations remain relevant to Nations... blood relations matter for your ethnicity, because your kin have belonged to this people on this land..." (139)

"Each of us has a people group, an ethnicity, each people group can be conscious of itself, and each people group has the right to be for itself."

Bruh

"Since grace restores nature and natural law contains all the moral principles concerning social relations, the Gospel does not alter the priority and inequality of loves amongst those relations. A Christian should love his children over other children, his parents over other parents, his kin over other kin, his nation over other nations"

Oh boy......

“I contend that providing an account of human society in the state of integrity is essential to Christian political theory… if the formation of distinct nations is natural to prelapsarian man and grace affirms and restores nature, then the nation in principle is not a consequence of the fall and grace does not undermine it.”

hmm

So far, Wolfe is more careful, nuanced, and calm then Isker or Torba. He seems to reject theonomy and argues for a magesterial Reformer perspective.

Im clearly not as smart as I should be. Reading this a few pages at a time. Thinking heavily while doing so. Excellent work of theological resourcement.