The Case for Christian Nationalism

by Stephen Wolfe

Consider the strange incongruity at work in the rejection of cultural Christianity. In Moore’s view, the Gospel flourishes when the enemies of God have social power, and it flounders when Christians have this social power. Thus, a God-ordained natural power—a means of ensuring social solidarity—aids the church when this power is hostile to Christ. The God of the Gospel turned something that he ordained, as the God of nature, against the Gospel so that it would advance. Bizarrely, social power remains a means to faith, but only when that power is abused. This is patently absurd. What is the basis for this nature/grace disharmony? Why is God the creator opposed to God the redeemer? How can the proper use of a natural power harm the Gospel but its abuse support it? We should affirm what is most obvious: the ordinary operations of nature and grace ought to cooperate for eternal life, and therefore social power ought to be put in the service of true religion.