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Dec 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#ProtestantPoliticalTheory from the Geneva Students’ Confession (1559) 🧵

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"I confess that God wills that the world be ruled by laws and governments so that the reins are not absent by which the actions of unruly men are restrained."

Geneva Students’ Confession (1559)
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"And for this reason, He has established kingdoms, principalities, dominions, and whatever else pertains to civil jurisdiction."

Geneva Students’ Confession (1559)
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"Of these things He wants to be regarded as author, so that because of Him not only is their rule obeyed, but we even revere and honor them as vicars of God & ministers established by Him, so that they may exercise a legitimate and holy office."

Geneva Students’ Conf (1559)
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This is an example of the type of American "Christian Nationalism" that I've been advocating for played out in a local environment, i.e., Philadelphia in the aftermath of the 1793 Yellow Fever crisis.

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It was organized. It was assertive. And it was broadly ecumenical in a way that didn't blur doctrinal differences: it focused on social goods. From the list of signers, I have identified Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Moravian, and Methodist ministers. 2/11
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"Are we really to pursue a social ordering on earth so different from that which is present in heaven?" asks Kevin D. Young.

Bro, we aren't gonna have to deal with murder cases in heaven. Don't be silly.
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Oct 18
Neolith talking about the 1532 Synod of Bern quotes that I've been slow dripping on the TL lately, and he's very right: fashionable evangelical political rhetoric has no depth at all and especially compared to our religious forefathers.
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Contemporary evangelical thought leaders act like they have a very difficult time holding those two things together. They can and do say the first part, often with more cliches and sloppy thinking, but they think that that necessarily negates the second part when it doesn't.
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Some people were asking me if I was FV. Here's my take on it that will probably please nobody.

The 20th century was terrible for theology. It was a period that can be characterized by forgetting, oversimplifying, and innovating.
Regarding the oversimplification that characterized the century, it seemed as if people were basically being catechized by theological slogans, e.g., the 5 Solas and TULIP.
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Oct 6
#ProtestantPoliticalTheory from the Synod of Bern (1532): a compilation thread 🧵

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"It is certainly not possible for the common ministers and servants of the Word of the eternal God to commence and maintain fruitfully an external order without the co-operation and help of the temporal authorities."

The Bern Synod (1532)
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"It is fitting that the magistrate who desires to maintain a Christian rule and a pious government should diligently apply His authority as God’s maidservant, preserving the external aspects of the doctrine and life of the gospel among their subjects."

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It is very typical of the super "confessional" anti culture war types to say "not cool bro" to stuff that was not "not cool bro" like five minutes ago as if it were the eternal law and not something that became a taboo in their lifetime
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