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  • Liberalism and the Church

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2019 3:49pm EST

    We’re continuing our series on illiberal Protestantism. So far, we have looked at Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and how Lutheranism has traditionally held that God governs his earthly kingdom or “the left hand realm” of the world through the structures of the Orders of Creation – family and work, the church and the state […]

  • Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 11:09pm EST

    Is Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Protestantism opposed to racialism and anti-Semitism? Is Protestantism opposed to nationalism and authoritarianism? These questions have drawn my attention lately. We’ve already seen how church and state used to be integrated in Lutheran Europe before the Napoleonic Wars and how Protestants supported the Third Reich. We have also seen how […]

  • The Gospel of Apartheid

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 12:11pm EST

    Is Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Christianity incompatible with “racism” and “white supremacy”? Yesterday, we looked at how Lutherans supported National Socialist Germany and justified it on the basis of Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and even welcomed the Third Reich as a triumph over liberalism and communism. Christians were more eager to collaborate with the Nazis […]

  • The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 8:27pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Liberalism didn’t exist in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s time. As I explained earlier, Protestantism WAS NOT always liberal. It developed centuries later and then mostly in the context of the religious pluralism of the Anglo and Dutch world. The following excerpt comes from Eric W. Gritsch’s […]

  • Two Kingdoms In The Third Reich

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 1:35pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. “It does not have to do with Jewish hatred – one can reach an agreement with serious Jews on this point – it does not have to do with blood, also not with the religious beliefs of Judaism. But it does involve the threat of a quite […]

  • Theologians Under Hitler

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2019 2:11am EST

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  • First Things: Rehabilitating The “Orders of Creation”

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2019 2:35pm EST

    I’ve been critical of the First Things crowd like Matthew Schmitz and Sohrab Ahmari and their Trad Cath version of “post-liberalism.” I was pleasantly surprised though this morning to find this old essay from thirty years ago by Carl E. Braaten, a leading American Lutheran theologian, which brings up the work of the 19th century […]

  • Christianity and Time

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 11:57pm EST

    I would like to start off this article by recalling an exchange of words that I had last year with Connor Grubaugh of First Things: First Things: “One might wonder how Wallace’s racialized Christianity could possibly account for the New Testament, among other notorious sticking points of the faith. But to assert orthodox doctrine against […]

  • Catholic Populists Respond To Catholic Elitists

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 27th 2019 2:22pm EST

    The battle is on. Whose side are you on in the Catholic Right Civil War? Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Schmitz or Nick Fuentes, Dave Reilly and E. Michael Jones? Nick Fuentes responds to Matthew Schmitz: Tonight, @NickJFuentes demonstrated that he has a better understanding of #Catholic Theology, and frankly bigger balls than 95% of supposedly […]

  • Which Way Catholic Man?

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 26th 2019 6:58pm EST

    Matthew Schmitz has a new article in First Things bellyaching about how China is tyrannical for violating the human rights of Muslims in Xinjiang. First Things: “In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview: “Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of […]

  • Church of England: Christianity Led To The Holocaust

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 24th 2019 9:16am EST

    Why is Christianity a dying religion in the West? I’ve thought a lot about this question over the past decade. I started out as an atheist convinced that Christianity was a weak and degenerate religion and that it had naturally evolved into its present state as a result of Christian theology. As I thought more […]

  • Pronoun Hospitality

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 22nd 2019 4:23pm EST

    For what it’s worth, I thought my friend @andrewtwalk article on pronoun usage was excellent, further clarifying some of these issues. I love his spirit & find myself in ready agreement with him—& in his longer treatment in his book ‘God and T debate’https://t.co/at3OibOnvZ— J.D. Greear (@jdgreear) November 22, 2019 H/T Rod Dreher Eric Striker […]

  • Sohrab Ahmari: Joker and Our Crisis Of Solidarity

    Occidental Dissent - Nov 20th 2019 4:49pm EST

    pic.twitter.com/ZwxbWyV1HF— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2019 We’re fully aware that Marco Rubio has been trying rebrand himself to run for president again as an “American Nationalist” and “common-good conservative.” No, we don’t believe that Marco Rubio’s rebranding as a “common-good conservative” or the Center Right trying to rebrand itself as “National Conservatism” is anything […]