I appreciate this declaration. I am confused by something. I’ve not yet read Stephen Wolfe’s ‘Case for Christian Nationalism,’ though I hope to. I have read a few reviews, including Kevin DeYoung’s at TGC (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/christian-nationalism-wolfe). It sounds as if there are ways of reading Wolfe that avoid overt racism, though DeYoung is clearly concerned about it struggles to accept Wolfe’s framing. I frankly don’t see how any form of nationalism, including something supposedly Christian, doesn’t ultimately tend toward some flavor of ethnic superiority— violating the cosmopolitan vision of scripture in which men and women of all the nations are drawn to live in one city, the New Jerusalem. My principal confusion is to see so many from Moscow and Canon signing onto this statement when a book they publish would seem (and I stress seem) to play to the very trend it rightly decries. I’m a bit baffled by that.
I found this comment by David Bahnsen helpful and essentially agree: https://x.com/davidbahnsen/status/1859937378749628565. But Doug Wilson and the others could demonstrate their seriousness by canceling the contract on Wolfe’s book.
I appreciate this declaration. I am confused by something. I’ve not yet read Stephen Wolfe’s ‘Case for Christian Nationalism,’ though I hope to. I have read a few reviews, including Kevin DeYoung’s at TGC (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/christian-nationalism-wolfe). It sounds as if there are ways of reading Wolfe that avoid overt racism, though DeYoung is clearly concerned about it struggles to accept Wolfe’s framing. I frankly don’t see how any form of nationalism, including something supposedly Christian, doesn’t ultimately tend toward some flavor of ethnic superiority— violating the cosmopolitan vision of scripture in which men and women of all the nations are drawn to live in one city, the New Jerusalem. My principal confusion is to see so many from Moscow and Canon signing onto this statement when a book they publish would seem (and I stress seem) to play to the very trend it rightly decries. I’m a bit baffled by that.
I found this comment by David Bahnsen helpful and essentially agree: https://x.com/davidbahnsen/status/1859937378749628565. But Doug Wilson and the others could demonstrate their seriousness by canceling the contract on Wolfe’s book.