{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Reformed Libertarians Podcast","title":"Ep. 18: Politics and the Church's Mission: What Should the Church Teach About Civil Government?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2340,"description":"We discuss the teaching mission of the institutional church, its relation to the church’s statements of faith, and what the institutional church must and may not teach about politics on several important points. We talk about the Reformed confessional view of submission to civil governance, the recent failure of some churches in the face of unlawful state dictates, the error of theonomic views, and how a biblically Reformed covenantal hermeneutic informs a correct view of general equity.https://reformedlibertarians.com/018Main Points of Discussion00:00  Introduction00:32  Episode description01:00  Why are we discussing this?02:15  What is the church’s teaching mission?05:07  One way the Reformed confessions are part of the church’s mission07:34  False teaching about submission to God-ordained civil governance13:43  Not a matter of political theory14:53  False teaching of original and so-called “general equity theonomy”19:28  Proper meaning of general equity24:30  The Reformed biblical covenantal hermeneutic30:39  Recap32:53  Disestablishmentarianism and Biblical criterion of proportional retributionAdditional Resources:What Does Romans 13 Say About Civil Government?https://reformedlibertarians.com/002Why Is The Right Of Resistance Important?https://reformedlibertarians.com/006Answers to Objections to Reformed Confessional View of Romans 13https://reformedlibertarians.com/episode/why-isnt-the-state-biblically-justified-resolving-romans-13-objections/Annotated bibliography of Reformed Political Resistance Theologyhttps://tinyurl.com/RefoPoliResistBibPaper and video presentation of “Theonomy, General Equity, and Libertarianism” by Jonathan McIntoshhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/theonomy-general-equity-and-libertarianism-by-jonathan-mcintoshExcerpt from “Men In Combat Over The Civil Law: ‘General Equity’ in WCF 19.4” by Peter Wallace and Craig Troxelhttps://sites.google.com/view/general-equity/Lecture series on Reformed Covenant Theology in systematic, biblical,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_ffQojCKkfVxhZ9aBJTTn0-xS1eU1nXEHMhYA1yDuC0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ4NzE1LzE3MDUz/MzM2MzItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}