Episode Details

Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Stephen Wellum about his longform essay "What Should Christians Think About the Nation of Israel Today?"

Timestamps

• Intro - 00:36
• Dr. Wellum’s Time in Ethiopia - 02:56
• Trent Hunter’s Connection to Ethiopia - 4:46
• What Does Ethiopia Have to Do With Israel? - 6:50
• Isaiah, Israel, and the Nations: Thinking Through Scripturally - 8:43
• Thinking Through the Turning Points of Israel in the Scriptures - 16:53
• Applying Psalm 122 to Today - 22:22
• What is a Nation? - 33:34
• How Much Do Christians Need to Recover a Biblical a Sense of Nationhood? - 37:25
• What Should We Be Thinking About in Terms of ‘Just War Theory?’ - 47:44
• Would We Have a Different Conversation if We Were in a Different Nation? - 50:42
• How Do We Understand the Ethnic Diaspora of Israel Throughout the World? - 53:37
• Outro - 57:56

Resources to Click

• “What Should Christians Think about the Nation of Israel Today?” – Stephen J. Wellum
• “Praying for the Peace of Israel: A Theological Proposal and Prayer” – Trent Hunter
• “Four Keys to Reading (and Teaching) the Psalms” – David Schrock
• “Reformation and Re-Embracement: A Brief History of the Puritan Hope for Israel” - Steve Atkinson
• “A Biblical and Theological Perspective of National Israel” – Brent Parker
• Theme: A Biblical View of National Israel – Christ Over All
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Books to Read

• Progressive Covenantalism: Charting a Course between Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies – ed. Brent Parker and Stephen J. Wellum
• Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (2nd Ed.) – Peter J. Gentry & Stephen J. Wellum
• Systematic Theology Vol. 1: