Latest Ask N.T. Wright Anything Episode
Christian Nationalism, the Word of God, and teaching the atonement to children. Plus, the Plague of Cyprian!
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This week covers three questions:
I'm worried Christians are supporting US Nationalism, how do we respond?
What does the Word of God mean?
Should we teach substitutionary atonement to a 9-year old?
Here is a video I created about the Plague of Cyprian in the Third Century! Only four minutes long and lets me play around with AI video production.
Chapter 6 in “Jesus and the Powers’ is valuable in discussing the question about Christian Nationalism in a charitable way.
People are suddenly worried about where America will go under Trump, but they're attempting to predict something.
In the book, insights are also given into something which is already here, worldwide, and which works from a Godless, Humanist worldview. This extant force is termed Civic Totalism. Christians need to be discerning by recognizing that this other element has been destructively at work for over three decades.
One quote:
“The danger posed by the bobos (under Civic Totalism, dmh) is more than big government and empty virtue-signalling. It is government consciously committed to a radical sociopolitical project of attempting to redefine what it means to be a human being and the relationship of citizens to the State.
Wright, N. T.; Bird, Michael F.. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies (p. 138). (Function). Kindle Edition.