Christian Nationalism Part 1

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Patriotism is different from Nationalism which in turn needs to be distinguished from Christian Nationalism.

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RECAP & TAKEAWAYS:

Dr. David Koyzis has evaluated Christian Nationalism and found it distorting Christianity in at least four ways:

First, it unduly applies biblical promises intended for the body of Christ as a whole to one of many particular geographic concentrations of people bound together under a common political framework.
Second, it tends to identify God’s norms for political and cultural life with a particular, imperfect manifestation of those norms at a specific period of a nation’s history.
Third, Christian nationalists too easily pay their nation a homage due only to God.
Fourth, and finally, those Christians most readily employing the language of nationhood may find it difficult to conceive of the nation in limited terms.
- Koyzis, David T.. Political Visions & Illusions (p. 117-118). InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

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