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Fifth Commandment Problems: “Christian” Legal Arguments That Conform to the World
Season 3 Episode 152
Is it a “legal strategy” or a Fifth Commandment problem when Christian legal advocates eschew common law and its application to current legal issues involving human sexuality? David uses an amicus br…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Have Christian Legal Advocates Embraced a Subjective, Relativistic View of Law?
Season 3 Episode 151
A question about natural law from a lawyer-lobbyist about Christians embracing natural law provides a foundation for today’s look at the arguments made by Christian legal advocates to SCOTUS in defen…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Telling SCOTUS to Think Like Enlightenment Philosophers. Really?
Season 3 Episode 150
This week friend of the court briefs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on a case out of Tennessee that is of civilization defining importance—whether bodies are essential to human meaning. David…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Is the Bible All We Need for Political Engagement?
Season 3 Episode 149
Today David begins to look at a third group he now sees involved in politics, those he calls neo-Theonomists. The prophet Isaiah as well as the person who prepared the soil for Abraham Kuyper’s polit…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Moving Beyond a Neo-Covenanter and Neo-Baptist Blame Game
Season 3 Episode 148
Today David offers a Biblical touchstone for improving on the church-state problems that contributed to our law no longer having a Christian foundation. Demonstrative of those problems are two histor…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Neo-Baptists: Tearing Down the Wall the Danbury Baptists Wanted
Season 3 Episode 147
Who, in David’s terminology, are the neo-Baptists that he finds involved in politics and law? Is their engagement “better” than that of neo-Covenanters? Today, David discusses the distinction between…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
What Makes a Law Just and a Nation Righteous
Season 3 Episode 146
David takes today’s episode to develop a historical context for next week’s discussion of neo-Baptist engagement with law and politics. Without this context, the Gnostic nature of that form of engage…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The Neo-Covenanters: Who They Are and Why Their View of Law and Politics is Gnostic
Season 3 Episode 145
Are you part of the neo-Covenantal tradition or the neo-Baptist tradition when it comes to law and politics? Today, David defines these two groups based on 30 years of dealing with Christians in the …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
What a Gnostic Benthamite Christian Lawyer Looks Like: Me.
Season 3 Episode 144
David begins his examination of what he considers the two predominate views among Christians on law and politics, those he calls the neo-Covenanters and neo-Baptists, with how he realized he read the…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The Law of Nature Jeremy Bentham and I Overlooked
Season 3 Episode 143
Common law authority William Blackstone said that man “must in all points conform to the will of his nature,” and this will was called the “natural law.” Today, David explains how he overlooked the m…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago