From Cross to Crown: Christian Nationalism and a Theology of Glory

Many Christians today feel disenfranchised as they look at the world around them, noting the accelerating dissolution of the basic institutions and public moral grammar they took for granted even a few decades ago. In response, some have looked back to “Christendom,” the long era from Constantine to the Peace of Westphalia when the Western world was marked by the magisterial establishment of Christianity. That experiment, which was an intentional entwining of church and state, furnished Europe and its colonial descendants with a shared religious and cultural heritage that now seems all but lost. Against this backdrop, Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism stands out as a sophisticated defense of retrieving something like Christendom.