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Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Civic Republicanism and the Magisterial Reformation

The civic republican tradition is partially downstream of magisterial Protestantism, yet it is today largely forgotten by many.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics

Reading Benedict XVI Eight Days Before an Election

Benedict XVI's treatment of liberation theology, first written in 1984, remains deeply relevant to us today.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics

Saving Liberalism Requires Better Liberals

Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryPolitical Theology

The Christian Nationalists (Still) Can't Read and Why That Matters

An ongoing series: How That Historical Quote Cited by a Prominent Christian Nationalist Doesn't Actually Mean What They Think it Means.

Terence SweeneyPolitical TheologyHistory/Church History

The Universal Christ: Neither Imperialist nor Localist but Evangelists

Christians should reject calls to a quietistic localism, but attempts to simply baptize the imperium are no less wrongheaded.

James WoodPolitical TheologyBook Reviews

Not Augustinian Enough

Christopher Watkin's 'Biblical Critical Theory' is a qualified success, but would be helped by a closer, more persistent engagement with Augustine.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Sloganeering Isn't How You Do Political Theology

It isn't surprising or wrong that many are reconsidering the 'nation' as globalization fails. But this return must be marked by wisdom, care, and piety.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Augustine and the Order of Love: Debunking a Dumb Christian Nationalist Argument

Contrary to the claims of white nationalists masquerading as Christians, Augustine's concept of the order of love has nothing to do with ethnicity.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics

Frog and Toad Christendom: An Independence Day Proposal for Renewal

We should reimagine our politics to favor people's long-term good over their short-term pleasure. This proposal offers several ways we might do that.

Jake MeadorTechnologyPolitical Theology

The Limits of Willpower

A bare proceduralist political project will not be sufficient in an era that, through technology, makes destructive vices so readily accessible.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismPolitical TheologyHistory/Church History

The End of Evangelicalism and the Possibility of Reformed Catholicism

The evangelical moment is ending, buried under contradictions and corruption. But a new, better chapter of Christian history in America might be beginning.

Guest WriterPolitical Theology

The Problems Two Kingdoms Don't Solve

Simon Kennedy and Ben Saunders argue that two kingdom theology deals with reality too neatly and is an inadequate answer to problems of political theology.