Christianity & the State: Reformation NOT Revolution [The Ezra Institute Podcast for Cultural Reformation]
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Michael Thiessen and Dr. Joe Boot are joined by Ezra Fellow Dr. P. Andrew Sandlin for the first episode of our summer series concerning the relationship between Christianity and the State. In this episode, they focus on the concepts of reformation and revolution. They explore historical "revolutions," including the English, American, French, and Sexual and their implications for modern society. The good doctors advocate for the need of a new Spirit-wrought biblical Reformation founded upon the authority of God's Word.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Introduction to the Podcast and Summer Mini-Series
06:28 Reformation vs. Revolution: Understanding the Concepts
19:29 The English "Revolution": A reformation NOT a Revolution
25:55 The American War of Independence vs. the French Revolution
28:19 Contrasting Revolutions: American vs. French
33:07 Covenantal vs. Contractual Societies
41:06 The Sexual Revolution: The TRUE American Revolution
54:00 Rebuilding in the Rubble: A Call for Revival and Reformation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome back, everyone to the podcast for Cultural Reformation, brought to you by the Ezra Institute. |
| 0:27.0 | The Ezra Institute is a Christian World and Life View and Cultural Apologetics Think Tank and Training Organization. |
| 0:34.6 | And we produce print and digital resources, we engage in in-person training as |
| 0:40.3 | well as engaging the skeptics. So we are seeking to help thinkers believe and believers think |
| 0:47.5 | Christianly about every area of life. So we're back actually now for a short mini-series as we've come out of our lengthy |
| 0:57.7 | study, our lengthy series on worldview and religion. We were looking at the various world |
| 1:04.2 | religions and in doing a fairly in-depth analysis on a week-by-week basis of the major |
| 1:10.2 | religions that dominate our age. |
| 1:13.9 | During our summer period here, because we are together with fellows and some of our teaching |
| 1:21.5 | staff at various summer programs, we're going to be, the next few weeks considering Christianity and the state. |
| 1:32.1 | We want to look at a variety of issues related to the Christian faith and its relationship to the state, how the state functions, what the modern state has become. |
| 1:47.0 | And so we're excited about that opportunity. And this week to kick us off, I'm here with, of course, our familiar face, |
| 1:56.6 | Dr. Michael Tieson, who is on our U. at the Ezra Institute, and one of our fellows who is |
| 2:05.3 | very familiar to almost all of you who listen regularly, probably our most regular |
| 2:10.7 | contributor among our fellows to both podcasts, article writing and in-person speaking, and that is Dr. Andrew Sandlin. |
| 2:20.7 | So gentlemen, welcome. |
| 2:22.7 | Welcome to Tennessee, actually, because that's where we are right now. |
| 2:25.6 | Absolutely. |
| 2:26.3 | In the sunny climbs of the Smoky Mountains and having a great week together here. |
| 2:33.8 | And we've got an interesting topic to discuss. |
| 2:38.3 | Michael, I think that the idea for this mini-series during the summer came up mainly because of audience questions that you were reflecting on. |
| 2:50.6 | Am I right about that? |
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