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...

James Baird, a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, is releasing his King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government this week. It is a worthwhile work; I read early drafts of the book and offered a blurb. Mr. Baird is confronting the...

Between 1785 and 1788 two major Protestant groups—parishioners in the Church of England and Presbyterians—confronted the political changes that occurred because of the founding of the American republic in the preceding decade and the promulgation of the United States’...

When Timothy Keller published The Reason for God in 2008, the work was widely understood to be an apologetic for Christianity to secular liberal society. The work’s title alludes to an age of skepticism, a phrase that in itself conjures—at least for the historically...

In the 160 years between the US Civil War and 2025, history and literature of the American South have offered an ahistorical blending of the politics and religion of the South in to a single united socio-cultural whole that acted with a single intellectual mind. The...

Rev. Dr. Kevin DeYoung and Rev. James Baird, two teaching elders in the Presbyterian Church in America, have recently carried on a civil but substantive debate on the nature of the 1788 revisions to the Westminster Confession. Deyoung posits that American...