The Case for Christian Nationalism

By: Stephen Wolfe

Narrated by: Wade Stotts

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Evangelical elites and the progressive media complex want you to think that Christian nationalism is hopelessly racist, bigoted, and an idol for right-wing Christians. Is Christian nationalism the golden calf of the religious right—or is it the only way forward?

Few “experts” answering this question actually know what nationalism is—and even fewer know what could make it Christian. In The Case for Christian Nationalism, Stephen Wolfe offers a tour-de-force argument for the good of Christian nationalism, taken from Scripture and Christian thinkers ancient, medieval, and modern. Christian nationalism is not only the necessary alternative to secularism, it is the form of government we must pursue if we want to love our neighbors and our country.

Wolfe shows that the world’s post-war consensus has successfully routed the United States toward a gynocratic Global American Empire (GAE). Rather than the religious right’s golden calf, Christian nationalism is the idea that people in the same place and culture should live together and seek one another’s good. The grace of the gospel does not eliminate our geography, our people, and our neighbors. Instead, it restores us to pursue local needs and local leadership freely and without apology.

If you want to be able to answer the political debate raging today, you must understand the arguments in The Case for Christian Nationalism.

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Natural truth

I don’t affirm all the means of argumentation that were used to bring about the conclusions in this book, but I affirm the conclusions as true and obvious. This should be included in required reading for all children before leaving the home.

A good introduction to political theory and a nice correction to the recent failings of Western thought.

This was a good introduction to political theory and a nice correction to the recent failings of Western thought. Despite the cover it is not primarily focused on American politics, but an overall view of what a nation is and how one should operate. This was an interesting listen, and I look forward to hearing more from Stephen after the various interviews he's done since writing it.

A refreshing deep dive into a verboten topic!

I really enjoyed Stephen Wolfe’s defense of Christian nationalism, despite my theological disagreements with him as a Baptist. Christians for so long have adopted a “just passing through” attitude towards life on this side of glory, and the results have been catastrophic. I urge you to give this book a chance and think through the argument he presents. If you disagree, then fine! Come up with a better argument. But we cannot continue with the status quo and hope to survive as a country.

I didn't know a publisher would produce a book like this.

The summary says that people think Christian nationalism is racist and bigoted, and then implies that the author will clear that up in the book. He does indeed clear it up, by (presumably unintentionally) demonstrating that Christian nationalism certainly is racist and bigoted.

Granted, the first half of the book was fairly well reasoned, and would provide an interesting foil for discussions of church state relations. However, the last half of the book is the biggest load of garbage I have ever heard. He claims that women and minorities are the cause of everything wrong with western politics, and the solution is the overthrow of the government to install a Christian autocrat. As a Christian I disavow this book.