The Case for Christian Nationalism: Asserting God's Authority over the State

Overview of Chapter Two of Stephen Wolfe's polemic in favour of Christian Nationalism

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The second chapter, which deals with the nature of postlapsarian (after-the-Fall) Man, feels, in many ways, to be a stop-gap chapter between the basis of the author’s project and his desired ends. Because this is, despite his protestations, largely a piece of political theology based on his reading of Reformed theologians from the 16th-18th centuries, there is very little trace of even the Enlightenment political theorists. Perhaps that will change as we move out of the theology-heavy sections, but I’m not optimistic. In what follows, I’ll highlight a couple of Wolfe’s arguments, in hopes of highlighting the fact that this is, first and foremost, a project aimed at asserting religious authority over secular life.