Institutes of Christian Politics
Below is a project of Stephen Wolfe, President of ICP, in which he writes on Christian politics with the elenctic method. Over the next several years, Wolfe will add and update entries, including this Table of Contents. To receive new entries, sign up for updates on the home page.
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Prolegomena to Politics
THEOLOGY
Whether we must distinguish theology and politics.
Whether theology is architectonic over politics.
POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Whether Christ's kingdom is twofold.
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Whether politics is properly philosophical or theological.
Whether we must distinguish ethics and politics.
Whether politics is architectonic over practical philosophy.
The Method of Politics
Whether mixed syllogisms are permitted in politics.
The Definition of Politics
What is the definition of politics?
What is the definition of the commonwealth?
What is the definition of political science?
The Subject of Politics
SOCIALITY
Whether man by nature is a political animal.
Whether human society is an organism.
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICS
Whether political principles are immutable.
Whether we should distinguish between a primary and a secondary law of nature.
Whether civil power is prelapsarian or postlapsarian.
Whether private property is prelapsarian or postlapsarian.
Whether nations are natural.
Whether nationalism is a political principle.
NATURE AND GRACE
Whether the principles of politics are natural
Whether truths of grace may complete principles of nature.
Whether nations may be Christian.
The End of Politics
Whether virtue or peace is the absolute end of politics.
Whether the pious republic is the eminent end of politics.
The Means of Politics
LAW
Whether all civil law must be derived from the natural law.
Whether the moral law in scripture is the same in substance as the natural law.
The Object of Politics
Whether religious acts are objects of politics.