New Warhorn Media post by Tim Bayly:
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Coming back to this … looking at Calvin in Geneva, do his experiences with the civil powers give us a better model for our own engagement with the civil powers? I’m asking here because I don’t know nearly enough to answer the question myself. TIA …
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Don’t know how to answer this, Ross. But I would point out that visitors were astounded by the superior moral and doctrinal climate of Geneva. Their observations were similar to those summarizing Kidderminster under Baxter’s ministry. I wonder if both weren’t more the product of the pulpit than civil government. Love,
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… which goes back to the experience of the Jews in the exile in Babylon. Where - well aware of why they were there in the first place - they learnt to follow the LORD far more closely that they had in Judah. And the pulpit would have been the way this happened.
That’s quite a paradox! But the history of the Jews in exile has, I think, much to inform the discussions over Christian Nationalism.
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And on a perhaps-related note. I have heard someone from the 2025 Project advocate the end of of the Nineteenth Amendment, i.e. that only men should vote; and I have heard of someone in the CN cause, a Reformed pastor, advocate the same. Has anyone here come across the same ideas?
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Nope, I haven’t heard it.
This is an idea from the very fringe of America’s right wing and has no more likelihood of being implemented through ordinary political means than, say, the nationalization of America’s oil industry.
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@FaithAlone, @tbbayly - thanks for the feedback/clarification. Appreciated.