Political Theology

Four Takeaways from Trump’s Attempted Assassination

Jim McCarthy
Jul 29, 2024
On Saturday, July 13 th , the 45 th President and republican nominee, Donald Trump, was struck by an assassin’s bullet that grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, PA. This shocking attack, the first of its kind in 40 years, has left many scrambling for answers to difficult questions while...

COVID Repentance Podcast

Jonathan Master
Aug 25, 2020
COVID Repentance Peter VanDoodewaard is the pastor of Covenant Community Church in Taylors, SC. He’s in-house today to chat about an article he’s written for Reformation21.org titled Covid-19 Repentance. Peter's piece combines a reflection on the Old Testament minor prophets with the unprecedented...

WHAT IF: Duns Scotus had not been a Theologian?

Christopher Brittain
Jan 11, 2016
John Milbank, Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People . Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 298 pages. £24.99/$34.99 What if Duns Scotus had never written theology? According to John Milbank, Christendom would have been spared much of its own self-imposed...

WHAT IF: Duns Scotus had not been a Theologian?

Christopher Brittain
Jan 11, 2016
John Milbank, Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People . Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 298 pages. £24.99/$34.99 What if Duns Scotus had never written theology? According to John Milbank, Christendom would have been spared much of its own self-imposed...

Presbyterians and the Political Theology of Race: Part 2 [Old Testament Politics]

Matthew Tuininga
Jul 2, 2015
In Part 1 of this series I observed that southern Presbyterian defenders of segregation emphasized the Old Testament as the authority for biblical norms regarding race over against the more New Testament oriented arguments of their opponents in the civil rights movement. The most prominent version...

Presbyterians and the Political Theology of Race: Part 2 [Old Testament Politics]

Matthew Tuininga
Jul 2, 2015
In Part 1 of this series I observed that southern Presbyterian defenders of segregation emphasized the Old Testament as the authority for biblical norms regarding race over against the more New Testament oriented arguments of their opponents in the civil rights movement. The most prominent version...