Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
The Churchill Cult in the United States finds its most tangible expression in Fulton, Missouri the site of his famous speech. Though most people are unaware of this, a small London church (reconstructed by Wren after the 1666 fire) was dismantled in the 1960's and moved to Missouri and is a symbolic platform for the Churchill museum. In a kind of strange commemorative fusion it combines Churchill, Christianity and (it would seem) the call to take up arms in the Cold War.
In recent days, with the Ukraine War, the coronation of Charles III, as well as some Evangelical commentaries tangentially connected to these issues, I've been reminded of the still extant Churchill Cult and the inroads it has made within the Christian community. This needs to be addressed.
This was but another case of meeting Christian people at a church and getting one impression and then finding them on social media and discovering they are in fact something else. The Nazarene body in question is something completely unrelated to the fairly numerous Nazarene churches which are part of the Wesleyan tradition.
Kennedy then takes a strange turn by invoking the memory of Reinhold Niebuhr who was not a Christian by any kind of New Testament measure. His faith was not in keeping with the message delivered by the apostles and so I continue to be somewhat baffled as to why his flawed paradigms and bogus 'realist' dilemmas are granted any standing.
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The Distorted Thinking Which Dominates Reformed Political
Thinking Today
https://americanreformer.org/2023/07/reformed-political-theology-today/
The article errs in its opening salvo. Psalm 2 must be
interpreted in light of the New Testament. The tension Kennedy looks for is not
there. The New Testament reveals Psalm 2 to be eschatological.
As a consequence of this error, there is an admittedly
substantial heritage which Kennedy merely perpetuates. Begging the fundamental
question, he offers nothing by way of remedy.