The Middle Ages are back in style. Pope Leo XIV and the Trump administration are dueling over political theology. Jest as we might, the war of words in the media between the pontiff and the President of the United States exposes two things: There remains a significant...

At The Telegraph this week, Tim Stanley, an Evangelical Baptist turned atheist turned Anglican turned Roman Catholic, posits that President Donald Trump’s Iran War is being pursued at the behest of a coalition of Fundamentalist Evangelicals—Dispensationalist...

Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini was in many ways the father of modern nationalism. It may surprise 21st-century readers accustomed to thinking of nationalism as a right-wing phenomenon to discover that in the middle of the 19th century, Mazzini was a man of the...

What did the Presbyterians who met in 1788 intend regarding political theology? If the amended Confession did fundamentally change the church's ostensible relationship to the state, did even a conception of the federal (or national) government that was explicitly...

In 2008, James Wellman, a historian at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, published Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest. Wellman skillfully laid out how the very nature of...

The late Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull wrote in 2022 that it was a mistake to think that political theology was an afterthought in John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. “To the contrary, Calvin recognizes that he cannot complete his great work without...

In the reactionary aftermath of the great liberal revolutions that rocked Europe in 1848–49, liberal heroes, or heroes who were at least perceived to be liberal by the Anglo-American press, made their way to British and then United States cities. The Hungarian...

Christianity informs the peace of earth organized and implemented by the American military abroad and domestically, and American soldiers implement that same peace

University of Florida professor Samuel Goldman has an important piece at Compact Magazine this week. Christian Zionism, Goldman rightly notes, is not a creation of Dispensationalism or the 20th century. It has long roots in the Christian, the Protestant, and...

An essential aspect of debates over political theology and Christian politics in the 21st century revolves around the question of whether the government can enforce the first table of the Law. Presbyterian and Reformed debates over this question are intense, precisely...