{"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.\nhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/018\nMain Points of Discussion\n00:00  Introduction\n00:32  Episode description\n01:00  Why are we discussing this?\n02:15  What is the church’s teaching mission?\n05:07  One way the Reformed confessions are part of the church’s mission\n07:34  False teaching about submission to God-ordained civil governance\n13:43  Not a matter of political theory\n14:53  False teaching of original and so-called “general equity theonomy”\n19:28  Proper meaning of general equity\n24:30  The Reformed biblical covenantal hermeneutic\n30:39  Recap\n32:53  Disestablishmentarianism and Biblical criterion of proportional retribution\nAdditional Resources:\nWhat Does Romans 13 Say About Civil Government?\nhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/002\nWhy Is The Right Of Resistance Important?\nhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/006\nAnswers to Objections to Reformed Confessional View of Romans 13\nhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/episode/why-isnt-the-state-biblically-justified-resolving-romans-13-objections/\nAnnotated bibliography of Reformed Political Resistance Theology\nhttps://tinyurl.com/RefoPoliResistBib\nPaper and video presentation of “Theonomy, General Equity, and Libertarianism” by Jonathan McIntosh\nhttps://reformedlibertarians.com/theonomy-general-equity-and-libertarianism-by-jonathan-mcintosh\nExcerpt from “Men In Combat Over The Civil Law: ‘General Equity’ in WCF 19.4” by Peter Wallace and Craig Troxel\nhttps://sites.google.com/view/general-equity/\nLecture series on Reformed Covenant Theology...","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}