Emeritus professor of law who taught and writes in fields of contracts, bankruptcy, and private law theory as well as intersection of Christianity & law.
Glen Allen, VA
Joined January 2013
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Could a nation be founded on natural rights and still understand itself as a Protestant republic? Could its soldiers be both faithful Christians and defenders of the republic?
In *Valiant & Pious,* recover the forgotten history of the Christian soldier in America. Link below:
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This seems right to me. And more or less what I argued years ago at @mereorthodoxy. If Christian nationalism meaningfully exist as a political philospophy--and Im doubtful--its an extraordinarily impotent one.
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Nobody is stopping AI. They're just shipping it to China.
Voters banned data centers. Bernie wants a national moratorium. The Nasdaq is down about 5%; chip stocks are getting hammered.
Ban the infrastructure, export the industry. The Germany play.
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Another Repudiation Election nationalreview.com/corner/an…
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Looks great.
McGinnis & Rappaport on the Constitution’s Own Interpretive Method: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11461…
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Black Christians have a historic opportunity to lead in this moment and to save America from destroying itself.
But we have to decide whether we’re just happy to have proximity to power or will we lead Democrats toward common sense solutions and away from cultural extremism?
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To enrage some of you further: This election is also vindication for Roberts in Callais on Voting Rights Act. When Mississippi elects a Black senator, a lot harder to argue that special racial districts are needed around the country to ensure minority representation.
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The religious left has completely lost the churches, but its ethos persists in much of elite secular society. Thus we have Talarico, Hamilton, and Warnock in the Senate, but the left conveniently seems to have forgotten to freak out about "Christian nationalism."
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1/ In the early American republic, the military was a better guardian of classical Protestant political theology than evangelical ministers.
Episcopalian officers, natural law, West Point, and a Christian understanding of war.
Rediscover what was forgotten in *Valiant & Pious*:
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Trump would not have had to work so hard to try to keep the Senate in Republican hands if he could have kept his ego in check. He engineered the fall of Tillis in NC and Cornyn in TX. But they dared to disagree with Trump a couple of times, were labeled as RICOs, and now they are gone. Those would have, relatively speaking, been solid holds for the Republicans. NC is clearly gone, and late-breaking polls indicate the same is likely true for TX. If things go the way I think they're likely to go tonight and my conservative friends complain about a Senate that sabotages Trump, I will remind them of the own goals produced by the president. They will get little sympathy from me.
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*Valiant & Pious* from @DavenantInst tells how older social and military hierarchies dissolved and how Evangelical culture gradually infused America and its wars with a sacred holiness, transforming how Americans viewed the intersection of faith and war. Purchase link below:
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The White House making a Reformation Day statement is fine. I’d trade it for him regularly attending a Bible believing church though. Because the statement does nothing. But the church would be good for him.
True.
“The Reformation, in spite of its substantial contribution to the history of doctrine and the shock it delivered to theology and the church in the sixteenth century, was not an attack upon the whole of medieval theology or upon Christian tradition.
The Reformation assaulted a limited spectrum of doctrinal and practical abuses with the intention of reaffirming the values of the historical church catholic.
Thus, the mainstream Reformers reconstructed the doctrines of justification and the sacraments and then modified their ideas of the *ordo salutis* and of the church accordingly;
but they did not alter the doctrines of God, creation, providence, and Christ, and they maintained the Augustinian tradition concerning predestination, human nature and sin.
The reform of individual doctrines, like justification and the sacraments, occurred within the bounds of a traditional, orthodox, and catholic system which, on the grand scale, remained substantively unaltered.”
- Richard Muller
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I got together with @ScotBertram and @Hillsdale1017 to talk about my new book *Valiant & Pious* and the idea of the Christian soldier in America. Purchase link below:
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May I suggest a compromise between “artificial intelligence” and “super intelligence”?
Let's combine the two words!
I humbly recommend that going forward, we call this groundbreaking technology “Superficial Intelligence” — something that reflects both the product and the character of the man so devoted to the name change?
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I loved this conversation with @GeorgeSayour about *Valiant & Pious* from @DavenantInst. We tease how Protestants differ from Evangelicals and Roman Catholicism on the intersection of religion, the state, and war. Great Convo. Purchase link below:
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Im extremely grateful to President Emeritus of @WestminsterTS President Emeritus Rev Dr @PeterLillback for this thoughtful endorsement of *Valiant & Pious* from @DavenantInst Press. Purchase link below:
