Episode 239: On A New Christian Authoritarianism?

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, we published a new edition of Church Matters—formerly known as the 9Marks Journal—that addresses a few unusual topics: Christian nationalism, theonomy, and magisterial Protestantism.

In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan Leeman and Mark Dever explain why.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jonathan Lehman.
0:06.1	And this is Mark Devere.
0:07.2	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks.
0:10.7	Pastors talk again.
0:12.5	It's us.
0:14.1	Again.
0:15.5	Actually, I think this might be the last of the season.
0:17.8	Is this the last of the season?
0:19.6	Yeah, this is the last one of the season.
0:25.8	We'll take a, we'll take a break for the summer and just going to have to find other things to listen to. Nine marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches learn more at nine marks.org.
0:31.3	And yet these days, you come out just for summer reading with a journal that is over 300 pages long when you print it out.
0:39.4	I think it's 375. That's correct. Our longest ever, by far, because it's such a hard topic.
0:45.0	It's using words that a lot of pastors aren't that familiar with, or at least not to be used by
0:50.6	pastors, words like nationalism and magisterial.
1:00.4	So some of us may have gotten up early recently to watch the coronation of King Charles III.
1:08.2	And there we saw something that was without doubt nationalistic and certainly by many of the kutremans, you know, where it was in an abbey, the Bible being there and being referred to as the greatest treasure on this earth.
1:16.2	And lots of scripture read, it seemed to be a kind of Christian nationalism.
1:21.0	It was, I didn't watch it.
1:22.5	So I can't.
1:23.4	I saw the.
1:24.6	My description just now was excellent.
1:26.7	Yeah.
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