What Authority Has God Given to Governments?
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.29.2023The government’s job description: To administer the justice requisite for protecting human life, secure the conditions necessary for fulfilling the dominion mandate, and provide a platform for God’s people to declare God’s perfect judgment and salvation.
Samples of Public Prayers Prayed by Pastors
By J. Owens, J. Sanchez, M. Dever, R. Shannon | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Read the prayers of four pastors at city, state, and national governmental gatherings.
Charlemagne and the Legacy of Christian Political Violence
By Dustin Asbury | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023When the church possesses coercive power, it invariably becomes warped and corrupted.
How I Went Too Far with Politics
By Dave Brown | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023How do we as Christians know when we’re putting too much hope in politics?
A 1689 Baptist Perspective: Confessionalism and Theonomy
By Justin Perdue | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Confessional Baptist theology disputes theonomy in three areas.
What Is a Greater Grief: A Compromised Church or a Compromised Nation?
By Jeremy Walker | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Which more afflicts the heart of God’s people—a morally declining country or a spiritually diseased congregation?
John Gill on Theonomy
By Ian Hugh Clary | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Baptists who care about the integrity of their own tradition would do well to leave theonomy to the side and embrace the thinking of theologians like Gill whose thought well-represented the best of both Reformed and Baptist theology.
Theonomy: Serious Theology, Serious Politics, Seriously Wrong
By Al Mohler | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Theonomy risks conflating the identity of the church and civil society as a matter of law and polity.
A Presbyterian Perspective: The Intellectual and Sociological Origins of the Christian Reconstructionist Movement
By Ligon Duncan | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023It is not our primary purpose here to provide analysis, but to describe and define, and to supply a preliminary sketch of the theoretical and environmental origins of the Christian Reconstructionist movement.
Theonomy and Sharia Law
By Matthew Bennett | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Christian theonomy poses some of the same dangers as an Islamic state.
International Pastors on Culture War—Why or Why Not?
By Benny, J. Lithell, J. Manley, S. Masters | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.20239Marks asked several pastors outside of the U.S. to answer this question: in your context, do you think of yourself as a culture warrior?
Against Religious Establishment in Baptist Political Theology
By Nathan A. Finn | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023From the beginning of the Baptist movement in the seventeenth century, the vast majority of Baptists have rejected religious establishments as a threat to flourishing faith.
“God Is (Not) an Englishman . . .”
By Jamie Southcombe | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023We should never confuse God’s kindness to our home nation with the idea that nationality is his primary interest.
Utopian Seductions
By Matthew Arbo | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Nationalist sentiment has come and gone, each time a different flavor, perhaps, but always the same recognizable brand.
Is It Possible to Be a Baptist Christian Nationalist?
By Matthew Y. Emerson | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Is Christian Nationalism compatible with historic Baptist distinctives—with credobaptist, congregational convictions?
