Stephen Wolfe

Kevin DeYoung has chosen the CN study committee members. They are free to contact me at any time. To aid them in their study, here's a selection of my work:

“Second, if there is any figurehead for Reformed Metaphysics, it is not Scotus or Thomas or Suarez, but Aristotle. The insights of the medieval scholastics by which they advanced far beyond Aristotle are to be greatly appreciated. But the properly basic insights of Aristotle are to be our guiding light. He was the flower of nature’s wit. Where any medieval scholastic claims to have corrected him, we are right to be skeptical. Yet of course, our loyalty is not to Aristotle, but to truth wherever it might be found (see above).”

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Friendly reminder to all involved in the discussion on thomism: Scholasticism and metaphysics are neither unique to Thomas nor modeled off Thomas, and when we see a Reformed individual follows the scholastic method we shouldn’t call that “seeing Thomas’s method in them”

Why am I translating Burgersdijk’s Logic and Senguerdius’ Metaphysics? Because it’s insane that we’ve had so many systems of theology translated but none of the former! This will change.

I'll be in Nashville Friday evening at this great event, put on by great guys. As I am on the conference circuit B-team, a second stringer, brought in to placate the Moderates in the crowd, I will be up there on the panel after the below gentlemen give their talks. Please come! I'm happy to chat and sign autographs on Stephen and Andrew's books!

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@hunterbaker @WilliamWolfe I don't know many people against "mixed church bodies." We're talking about civil politics, which has its own order distinct from the church. Multiculturalism in civil society is bad for civil society per its own order.

@WilliamWolfe I think you guys may be going backwards. I’ve opposed the left’s constant claims of racism forever, but this massive protest against a call for mixed church bodies makes me wonder if there’s a there, there. “The lady doth protest too much.”

“Everyone who disagrees with me is a secret white supremacist”…. Is bush league nonsense coming from evangelical Christian academics/pastors/pundits who are pushing novel, liberal ideas about the relationship between the gospel and nations/people groups that no church father, reformer, or respectable theologian would have ever proposed until all of 50-70 years ago. No, people disagree with you because you’re cloaking modern Leftist ideology in Christian pieties.

In Christian nationalism, if you can't pass a PT test, then you don't get an opinion on foreign policy.

As of last year, Mel Duncan (who presented the CN study overture to PCA GA) was telling people that I’m a postmil theonomic reconstructionist.

@NeilShenvi What does that even mean? Does the gospel subvert natural principles? You haven’t worked any of this out.

Read the comments for illustrative examples. However, there's an even deeper problem: Many on the Dissident Right reject Christianity *precisely because* the gospel commands an allegiance that transcends "blood and soil." 1/

Also wild that Shenvi downplays the importance of ethnicity but then says that a host nation can’t seek to assimilate guests out of it. Another contradiction. Why not tell the newcomers that ethnicity isn’t important?

Since assimilation is necessary for good civil order, the Gospel (which, according to Shenvi, condemns assimilation) is subversive of good civil order. The gospel introduces a contradiction, and requires nations to descend into social distrust, atomization, and disorder.

@MarcusGustavus Yes, and when we distinguish properly, we are not forced into m2k secularism.

@PerfInjust Put another way, evangelical political thinking often pits the God of nature against the God of grace. Maintaining the distinction between nature and grace means we think don't pit God against Himself.

The great error of political thinking among evangelicals is thinking that a distinctly “Christian” politics must be derived from the gospel or the nature of the church. This creates all sorts of problems, as we see people claiming that the multicultural church requires multicultural politics. But Christians politics is best understood as Christian truth completing natural principles. Civil gov must promote true religion (natural principle) Christianity is the true religion (gospel truth) Ergo This keeps everything in its proper place and doesn’t undermine natural principles. Christians are Christian human beings.

@CDM15171031 @TheOptimisticC3 @NeilShenvi Yes. Most critics of CN import all sorts of things from theology and the gospel to construct a theologized version of liberalism. It is a mess.

@PerfInjust @TheOptimisticC3 @NeilShenvi It has become apparent to me that the most extreme CNs are actually the ostensibly R2Kers. They are the ones that cement their limited understanding of the Church into public policy.

Here @NeilShenvi is probably correct. The gospel is for all the nations. The church is a transnational institution.

@NeilShenvi Unless we want to say that the supernatural principles of the church replace the prior natural principles of civil society. I suppose in theory that could be. But it would have to be demonstrated.

“Ethno-nationalism” (whatever it might mean) concerns political society— something that pre-dates the church. If ethno-nationalism is good, then that good is assumed by grace. Thus, the church—which is supernatural—would not, in principle, contradict or conflict with ethno-nationalism.

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@NeilShenvi What does the nature of the church have to do with the nature of civil society?

The Dissident Right's flirtation with ethnonationalism is just as destructive to the American church as Critical Race Theory.