The Most Talked About Evangelical Book of the Year

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Jon Harris

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Farris and Stephen Wolfe join the podcast to talk about the chilly reception "The Case for Christian Nationalism" got in mainstream Christian publishing.

#CaseforChristianNationalism #christiannationalism #stephenwolfe

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:34 Reception of Wolfe's Book

00:10:44 Why so negative?

00:15:28 Ecclesiocentrism

00:27:44 Egalitarian Impulse

00:35:45 Two Kingdom Dualism?

01:02:35 Ethnic Bigotry?

01:30:56 Building a new hierarchy

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0:00.0	The Welcome once again to the conversations that matter
0:17.3	podcast I'm your host John Harris we have two guests with us today Stephen
0:21.3	Wolf how you doing Stephen? Good, good, how are you? Good and we have
0:25.8	Joshua Ferris, both have been on the podcast before. How you doing, Josh? Hey, good to be with you. Thanks. And
0:31.7	for those you don't know, Stephen Wolf is the author of the case for Christian nationalism and
0:36.8	Josh is a Humboldt research fellow he wrote the creation of the South which I think
0:42.0	both of your books came out around the same time right Josh through some rounds before that. And you know Stephen's book has gotten so much
0:56.0	attention this year I'm willing to just say in Evangelicals I mean it is the book of
0:59.8	the year it is a phenomenon in and of itself the fact that it's been almost universally
1:06.6	denounced by evangelical elites in almost every publication someone's written
1:11.5	something about it, usually negative.
1:14.0	And a lot of them are just some of the same old tired and honestly secondary points that Stephen's making, they're writing against.
1:22.0	So I want to examine this a little bit because even though I feel like I've been around the block in
1:27.3	evangelicalism, I still find myself wondering why in the world Stephen gets so much vitriol and his book when it's honestly probably one of the most helpful and well I would say this about it it is it has made me ask more questions than any other book
1:46.8	that I've read in recent memory from the crop of evangelicals that are critiquing
1:51.4	it and so even on that alone, even if you don't agree,
1:55.0	it's just got some really good thoughtful things
1:58.0	to say about the reform tradition.
2:00.0	And so I appreciate you guys joining me to talk about it. So I want to start with you
2:04.0	Joshua because you wrote this article for American reformer and you joked with me
2:09.8	about how you would lose your fellowship with Yale or something by entering these waters and saying something nice about Stephen.
2:16.5	But really what you're doing is you are highlighting the reaction against him and trying to help people understand what that is.
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