THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - The Incredible Powers Of The Christian Prince
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Joel Webbon and Dr. Stephen Wolfe delve into the concept of the Christian Prince, exploring the authority granted to civil magistrates within a constitutional framework. They discuss the balance between civil power and religious liberty, the implications of public expressions of belief, and the historical context of Protestantism in shaping a Christian nation. The conversation also critiques modern liberalism and the social norms that influence Christian engagement in contemporary society.
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| 0:21.5 | We need this content for the glory of God to reach more people's ears. Okay, this is episode eight and myself and Dr. Wolf are going to be talking a little bit more about the Christian Prince. |
| 0:52.2 | We began that conversation in the previous |
| 0:54.2 | episode, episode seven. So if you haven't watched that, go back and check it out. We're going to |
| 0:58.5 | continue the conversation about the Christian Prince. And particularly, we're going to talk about |
| 1:02.3 | the powers that are afforded to him. And you know, you've already prepped me that you think that |
| 1:09.6 | in terms of permissibility and what's possible, that he could have a very great deal of power. |
| 1:15.6 | And then we're going to seek to give some qualifiers and disclaimers within a constitutional government that we have here in America and then also how that relates to religious liberty. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. So I think that the power in, like, the abstract |
| 1:31.0 | that God grants a Christian prince or a civil magistrate |
| 1:37.6 | is very, is broad, vast, and actually, not absolute. |
| 1:42.6 | There's some things that they cannot do um but it is it is very it's uh in |
| 1:49.2 | principle it can be very wide and broad um and this is where people people criticized me because it sounded |
| 1:56.0 | like i was saying he could be like a tyrant and he could be a um absolute ruler and and and and i i got |
| 2:03.4 | criticism recently someone said well what about uh like you have a birthday party and there's some some |
| 2:09.2 | some of the the girls friends are not nice can the civil magistrate show up and say you cannot do that |
| 2:14.3 | that's bad and make a law against girls being unkind or something during the |
| 2:18.2 | birthday party or something weird like that and i i was like i guess in principle you could do that |
| 2:24.3 | but uh there are other authorities that can do that as well so i just i think in principle the power |
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