A City Isn’t a City Without the Church

by Peter J. Leithart

God is necessary to prevent civilization from becoming soulless and settling for lifeless bureaucratic or technological substitutes. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2024

No, Overturning Roe Would Not Establish Theocracy

by Ryan T. Anderson and Andrew T. Walker

A law forcing Jews to attend Mass or Protestants to keep kosher would be imposing religion on others. Pro-life laws do no such thing. Continue Reading »

23 May 2022

Persecution and Constitutional Theocracy

by Peter J. Leithart

Immense practical obstacles stand in the way of making the liberal principles of the Universal Declaration truly universal. Continue Reading »

10 May 2019

Of Course Christians Are Theocrats

by Peter J. Leithart

“Theocracy” means “rule of God,” and the Christian gospel is, in a literal sense, a theocratic message. Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2018

Thanking the Puritans on Thanksgiving

by Peter Lawler

There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human happiness. Praising the Puritans is especially difficult for us because . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Nov 2010

Why Wait for the Kingdom?
The Theonomist Temptation

by Richard John Neuhaus

Paul Tillich famously wrote about ethics in the heteronomous, autonomous, and theonomous modes. To summarize all too briefly, heteronomous ethics is authoritarian, requiring submission to alien rules. Autonomous ethics is the conceit of modern liberalism that the individual is a law unto himself. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1990