Stephen Wolfe

We are headed into a prolonged era of systemic epistemological retardation. The sad but inevitable next step in the post post-modernism/moral subjectivism zeitgeist, coinciding with an era of The Church not taking discipleship seriously. Neither side will be immune. The Left in total will believe every official narrative uncritically since they control the institutions, and seek to impose those narratives by any means necessary. Significant segments of the Right will reject them all, regardless of any objective evidence presented, as a reaction to that — and seek out increasingly radicalized gnostics grifters to feed their overall suspicions. The only vaccine to the contagion will be a Biblical worldview, because without it you will think either you are the truth, or truth is nowhere to be found. We are gonna painfully learn the definition of a narrow road.

“The 1788 Westminster Standards thus constitute an adaptation of the original Standards to the American context. But in doing away with a ‘hard establishment’ of Presbyterianism, the revisions changed neither the magistrate’s relationship to the Christian religion nor to Christian morality. Indeed, the 1788 Westminster Standards do not support secularism, pluralism, or religious neutrality. Rather, they encourage a Christian civil order to maintain piety and to protect and privilege the church of Christ.” Reformed Christian Politics, 137.

Althusius’s Politica is only available in an abridged format and the translator clearly despises his subject. Van Mastricht’s Gangraena is a masterful and extended takedown of Cartesianism. Where to next in translation?

Our political thinking will improve when we stop basing it on eschatology.