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Now to church history. Bohemian Brothers and Anabaptists were the ones who practically invented the idea of a religious society as a particular, free association formed by people who joined the assocation by choice. All others forms of modern "freedom of association" have their starting-po...

The new article has one sentence which imho defines and marks an important difference: "Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people." Source: https://anabaptistworld.org/why-christian-natio...

"Anabaptist World" has still its weekly article against "Christian nationalism", this time from an associated professor of sociology. He, as others, suffers from the fact that he was, as a youngster, indoctrinated into "Christian nationalism" and then developed an inten...

May I reformulate my critique of Barth and the Barthians? The fascinating is in my eyes: Progressive Christians are just as cocksure that they know what God (or Jesus) wants, and they are fanatically convinced that it is just their task to reorganize state and society according to God's (or Christ's...

@barnhart The people who persecuted Anabaptists in the early modern time did not identify as "Christian Nationalists", so I would not treat this as a continuing feud between two identity groups. On the whole, there was a certain cooperation between state (government) and church needed in o...

Of course I know that we Lutherans are nearly always accused of a "false security". Here I distinguish. I am secure that, warts and all, I am destined for heaven. On the other hand, I am not secure that, warts and all, I am fit for heaven. Or rather I am secure that I am NOT fit for heaven...

I was at first brought up as a Lutheran and I still cling to the idea of a universal grace.(Lutheranism had a certain influence on Methodism which had a certain influence on Evangelicalism - so Lutheranism is not completely "outlandish".) Grace and salvation are everywhere. The mistake in ...

Obviously there are fine lines between what is deemed acceptable and what isn't. For example Karl Barth decreed that it was quite acceptable to support the Communists as long as the word "Christian" was not used.The Christian may privately be informed by his Christian ethics, but in a secu...

You didn't need to remind me that Anabaptists don't appeal to "Caesar" and they don't pass laws against sinners, I've read it before. For example here: https://anabaptistworld.org/its-a-myth/ The author, Steve Griffin is lead pastor of Bellwood Mennonite Church, Milford, Neb. He relies to ...

As for the "sheep and wolves" - Tyler spoke before a committee which prepared the convictions of a lot of people (don't know how much Baptists, but you can look them up at GiveSendGo which has afaik an Evangelical background). She was invited as an expert about Evangelical Trumpists, speak...