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A Critical Review of James Baird’s 'King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government'

December 11th, 2025 | 11 min read

By Casey McCall

James Baird’s King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government presents readers with a simple argument: “Government must promote Christianity as the only true religion.” In just eighty-five pages, Baird seeks to simplify centuries of complex Protestant debates on the nature of church-state relations. He presents his thesis as the “classic Protestant view” and offers logical, biblical, and historical arguments to back his claim. After presenting his main argument, he closes with four brief chapters on the nature of political freedom, the relationship between the way of love and political power, and the necessity of wisdom in politics.

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Casey McCall

Casey McCall is lead pastor at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church – Oldham County. He writes frequently for Prince on Preaching and the Oldham Era and has contributed articles to Radical, For the Church, ERLC, and the Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies.