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And Paul refers to the church in Galatian 616 as the Israel of God.

Well, this means that we have a duty.

We have to occupy the whole world.

The Great Commission is to make disciples of all nations,

to bring them all into the fold together with all their peoples, because Christ

is the ordained king of all creation.

If you've been listening to this show for the last few months, you know I've taken a certain

position on where we are in terms of Christian nationalism in the United States.

There are, I've maintained, a plethora of voices who have moved past the idea of a Christian nation.

The call now is for an American Christendom, and that means crowning a king to reign over this land.

The clip he just heard is from R.J. Rushduni, the father of reformed reconstructionism,

talking about how Christ is king and how he has called the church to occupy the whole world.

Rushduni has counterparts in the Catholic world, those who would call for the church

to reign as a theocracy, to integrate the church and the kingdom into one as it was in the

medieval ages. Today I speak to Dr. Jerome Kopiolsky, a Berkeley Center research fellow, who has written a great new book called American Heretics, Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order.

In the book, Jerome traces American movements that have been illiberal and anti-democratic on the basis of their Christianity.

He starts in the colonial period and moves forward all the way

to the contemporary moment. We focus on the 1960s forward with a discussion of Rushduni's

reconstructionism and the ways it influences reformed thinkers and leaders like Doug Wilson today. We also

discuss little-known Catholic figures who maintained that the integration

of the church and the state was the only way to approach building God's kingdom on earth.

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