After The Fact: American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion with Dr. John Wilsey

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Kyle Worley is joined by Dr. John Wilsey to answer the question what is Civil Religion?

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0:00.0	Welcome to After The Fact, a knowing faith mini-episode where we look to take a big
0:12.6	question and address it in just a few minutes.
0:15.6	Our After The Fact episodes this season are brought to you by the Southern Baptist Theological
0:19.6	Seminary.
0:20.6	If you haven't had a chance to find out of seminaries right for you, you should hop
0:23.7	over to sbts.edu slash explore where Southern has designed a really helpful tool to help
0:30.3	you think through that question.
0:32.4	We're discussing Romans on knowing faith this season and joining us today is Dr. John
0:36.2	Wilson.
0:37.2	Dr. Wilson is associate professor of church history and philosophy at the Southern
0:41.6	Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of One Nation Under God and Evangelical Critique
0:46.8	of Christian America and American exceptionalism and civil religion, reassessing the history
0:51.6	of an idea and the recently released God's Cold Warrior, the life and faith of John Foster
0:58.2	Dulles.
0:59.2	Dr. Will Seek, welcome to After The Fact, thanks for joining us.
1:01.6	Thanks so much, Kyle.
1:02.6	Glad to be here.
1:03.6	Here's the big question for today.
1:05.5	What is civil religion?
1:07.2	Yeah, I have a very specific definition for that.
1:11.9	I'll just read it right out of my book on American exceptionalism and civil religion.
1:16.4	Civil religion is a set of practices, symbols and beliefs distinct from traditional religion
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