Reformed Anarchism and Romans 13
Romans 13 – Civil Governance & Christian Anarchism from the perspective of Reformed Christian Anarchists
Most of the first hour is a discussion on the relationship between the Reformed Christian Tradition and Christian Anarchism, as well as how different Christian denominations and theologies compare and contrast within the Christian Libertarian world.
Jump in at about 54:25 to hear Greg and I start breaking down Romans 13 to show how Paul is NOT advocating for/endorsing statism
Here is a compilation of all the links and references mentioned in the video.
- Gregory Baus profile
- 20 min audio on libertarian anarchism and Romans 13
- article on Reformed view of Rom13
- Gregory Baus’ intro to libertarian anarchism youtube playlist
- Francis Schaeffer’s A Christian Manifesto
- The Constitution Party
- Murray Rothbard’s For A New Liberty
- Roderick Long’s Foundations Of Libertarian Ethics [audio] lecture series. See especially lecture 10: “An Anarchist Legal Order”
- Tomasz Kaye’s Explore: Is Taxation Theft?
- bitbutter youtube
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1788 “American”, non-establishmentarian)
- Canons of Dordt (aka “T.U.L.I.P.”)
- The five “solas”
- G.K. Beale’s Erosion of Inerrancy
- “Can the Bible be inspired and have errors?”
- “Inerrancy and the NT use of the OT”
- “OT in Revelation and Authority of Scripture”
- David D. Friedman
- Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures On Calvinism [amazon]
- (Popular intro to “Neo-Calvinism”) Walsh & Middleton’s Transforming Vision
- Gregory Baus on Herman Dooyeweerd’s view of Societal Sphere Sovereignty
- Gerard Casey’s Libertarian Anarchy
- “Meddling In Other Men’s Affairs: The Case For Anarchy”
- LCI’s Faith Seeking Freedom