Christ Over All

Listen in as Trent Hunter preaches from Isaiah 53:10–12.

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Caleb Morell joins David Schrock to discuss his longform essay "'The Power and Duty of An Association': Have Baptist Associations Historically Disfellowshipped Disorderly Churches?"

Timestamps

• Intro – 00:37
• About Caleb Morrell – 2:23
• Why is the History of Baptist Associationalism Important for Today? - 04:01
• Walking Through the History of the Philidelphia Association - 06:35
• What’s the Connection of the Philidelphia Association and the History of Baptists in America? - 08:18
• What is Benjamin Griffith Arguing For with New Testament Churches and Baptist Churches? - 09:56
• Stories of Churches that Illustrate Associationalism - 12:20
• What are Other Ways Associationalism Played Itself Out? - 14:57
• What Can We Learn From Our Baptist Brothers Who Have Gone Before Us? - 18:32
• What Was Capitol Hill Baptist Church Waiting For? - 20:18
• Is It Possible Now in the SBC to Do What the Earlier Baptist Associations Have Done? - 23:00
• Churches Disfellowshipped - 29:10
• Having a Tighter or Looser Confession and Commitment - 30:51
• James Merritt’s Statement and Where We Are Today - 39:06
• Outro – 44:23 

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Listen in as Tom Nettles joins David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss his longford essay "The Good Confession: Why Southern Baptists Would Do Well to Embrace Their Confession."

Timestamps

• Intro – 00:50
• Keeping Up with Dr. Nettles – 3:00
• Being Crystal Clear in Our Confessions - 05:11
• Connecting Individual & Corporate Confessions - 09:07
• Teaching Systematic Theology Along With Confessions - 16:22
• Confessions and Theological Triage - 19:59
• B.H. Carroll - 30:38
• A History of Baptists Moving Away from Confessions and Associationalism - 32:53
• Dr. Wellum’s Summarization of that History - 41:45
• Being Open Handed With Our Confession Does Not Bode Well - 46:55
• Dr. Nettles’ Current Efforts with Malcom Yarnell & Steven McKinion - 55:42
• Defining Cooperation - 58:25
• Final Thoughts from Dr. Wellum - 1:00:26
• Outro - 1:01:56 

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Listen in as Carl Trueman joins David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss the importance of creeds and confessions in the church.

Timestamps

• Intro - 00:47
• Dr. Wellum’s Appreciation for Dr. Trueman’s Writings - 03:12
• How Has Crisis of Confidence Developed? - 04:26
• Looking Back to Creeds and Confessions in a time of Rapid Cultural Change - 07:06
• Is There a Need for New Confessions? 09:36
• Giving ‘Teeth’ to Our Confessions and Supplementary Documents - 14:15
• Polity, and The Concern of Binding Consciences - 17:45
• Five Different Enemies of Confessionalism - 25:20
• Counsel for Living Under a Confession and Why that’s a Good Thing - 27:19
• What Happens When Churches Wander from their Confessions? - 31:00
• How Does Losing Our Humanity as a Culture Relate to Our Confessions? - 33:33
• Anthropological Heresies - 38:54
• What is the SBC Misunderstanding with the Removal of Confessionalism? - 40:10
• Outro – 42:07

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Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview church historian Michael Haykin on his longford essay "Baptists, A Confessional People."

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• Intro - 00:43
• The Thesis of Baptists as a Confessional People - 02:40
• Where Did Dr. Haykin First Encounter Creeds & Confessions? - 03:50
• Are Baptists Self-conscious to the Early Creeds & Confessions? - 06:10
• Why Was the Second London Confession of 1689 Necessary? - 08:44
• What Happens After the 1689 Confession? - 14:27
• Comparing Motivations for the Abstract of Principles vs. The Call for a Modern Day Abstract BF&M - 19:24
• What’s the Connection Between Church Planting, Evangelism, and a Strong Sense of Confessionalism? - 21:14
• The Relation Between Confessional Churches and Strong Teaching - 26:03
• What’s a Good Definition of Subscriptionism? - 28:08
• Subscribing to a Confession and Liberty on Certain Issues - 29:07
• Revising and Updating Confessions? - 31:10
• Why Was Confessionalism Lost in the 19th and 10th Centuries? - 38:02
• Southern Baptists and Calvinism in the 19th Century - 41:38
• Moving Away From Confessionalism Leads to Liberalism - 43:30
• Uniting for Mission? - 46:32
• The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptists in Canada - 48:18
• What Principles Do We Need to Learn in 2024 about Cooperating around a Confession? - 51:25
• Are Students at Southern Seminary Committed to Confessionalism? - 52:55
• Outro – 55:55

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Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum discuss Ardel Caneday's essay "The Sufficiency of Scripture in Doing Christian Theology by the Book."

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• Intro - 00:44
• Going to Israel - 02:41
• Background Context: Is this Necessary? - 04:15
• How to Put the ‘Historical’ and ‘Grammatical’ Together - 7:12
• How Much Did Ancient Near Eastern Context Impact Kingdom Through Covenant? - 09:25
• What is the Doctrine of ‘Sufficiency of Scripture’ and How Does It Fit With the Rest of the Doctrine of Scripture? - 17:22
• Natural Revelation and Special Revelation - 21:40
• Is Special Revelation Dependent on Natural Revelation? What is the Order? - 24:53
• Who is Abraham Kuyper and What Was His Contribution? - 30:23
• What is a Proper Application of Tradition for Doing Theology? - 33:51
• What are the Challenges for How Scripture and Tradition are Working Together in Our Own Day? - 39:02
• The Concern of Allegorical Interpretation - 43:21
• N.T. Wright - 46:35
• Dr. Wellum’s Final Thoughts - 53:33
• Outro – 55:19

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Systematic Theology is inextricably linked to the understanding of individual biblical texts. But what if those texts are obscured by extra-Biblical historical backgrounds that lead away from a biblical author’s intended meaning? Sound exegesis must begin with a firm commitment to the sufficiency of Scripture.

Listen in as Stephen Wellum joins David Schrock and Trent Hunter to discuss his new Systematic Theology, Volume 1: From Canon to Concept.

Timestamps

• Intro - 00:38
• When Did Trent first Hear of Dr. Wellum Talking about His Systematic Theology? - 3:04
• When Did Dr. Wellum Begin His Process on His Systematic Theology? - 4:20
• How Did Dr. Wellum’s Systematic Theology grow? - 8:10
• Why is Prolegomena Important? - 10:08
• Who Were Dr. Wellum’s Theological Influences? - 15:05
• The Academy and the Church - 18:22
• Why Do Pastors Need Systematic Theology? - 21:30
• Intratextual vs. Extratextual - 24:38
• Was There Ever a Time Dr. Wellum Went into Extratextual Theology? - 32:50
• The Subject of Biblicism: The Relationships Between Scripture and Tradition & Scripture and Historical Theology- 38:13
• Engaging the Cultural Moment That We’re In, and Applying Scripture - 44:35
• Ethics in Dr. Wellum’s Systematic Theology - 49:03
• Theology for the People of God - 54:20
• Christ Over All Monthly Q&A Zoom Calls - 56:40
• Outro – 59:26

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Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Stephen Wellum about his longform essay "What Should Christians Think About the Nation of Israel Today?"

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• Intro - 00:36
• Dr. Wellum’s Time in Ethiopia - 02:56
• Trent Hunter’s Connection to Ethiopia - 4:46
• What Does Ethiopia Have to Do With Israel? - 6:50
• Isaiah, Israel, and the Nations: Thinking Through Scripturally - 8:43
• Thinking Through the Turning Points of Israel in the Scriptures - 16:53
• Applying Psalm 122 to Today - 22:22
• What is a Nation? - 33:34
• How Much Do Christians Need to Recover a Biblical a Sense of Nationhood? - 37:25
• What Should We Be Thinking About in Terms of ‘Just War Theory?’ - 47:44
• Would We Have a Different Conversation if We Were in a Different Nation? - 50:42
• How Do We Understand the Ethnic Diaspora of Israel Throughout the World? - 53:37
• Outro - 57:56

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Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Brent Parker about his longform essay "A Biblical and Theological Perspective of National Israel."

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• Introduction - 00:32
• How Did Brent Parker Get into Studying Israel? - 3:09
• Trent Hunter’s Study of Israel - 06:27
• Three Different Understandings of Israel - 11:13
• How Do We Understand Typology When Regarding Israel? - 18:52
• How Does a Pastor Preach about Typology? - 22:44
• Understanding the Abrahamic Covenant and its Promises - 29:10
• What are Some Ways to Connect Adam to Israel in Being a Corporate Adam? - 34:05
• Titles and Offices of Israel Pointing to Christ - 38:31
• Why Do People Move Straight from Old Testament Prophecies to End Times Before Moving to Christ? - 44:20
• Is Joshua 21 a Place to See the Land Promises Fulfilled? - 48:48
• Are the Land Promises Spiritualized or in Some Sense Fulfilled in the Future? - 50:40
• What are a Couple Key Verses to Show that Jesus is the True Israel? – 52:57
• How Is the Church Not the Replacement of Israel? - 54:40
• How Do We Read Romans 11? - 57:57
• Closing Thoughts & Outro - 1:02:52

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Andy Naselli recently provided an analysis of the numerous interviews Christ Over All conducted last month. Here, he is joined by David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss those reflections.

Timestamps

• Introduction - 00:28
• Range of Approaches to Church and State - 3:54
• Articulating a Methodology of Constructing a Political Theology - 05:21
• Reflection 1 - 08:24
• The Church’s Mission & Doug Wilson – 10:08
• Reflection 2 - 11:44
• What About Those who Might Be Inbetween Views 4 & 5? - 14:05
• How Are Views Altered By Current Events? - 18:48
• Reflection 3 - 22:23
• Reflection 4 - 23:43
• Reflection 5 – 25:00
• Using ‘Christian’ as an Adjective – 29:57
• Reflection 6 - 34:57
• Reflection 7 - 36:03
• Starting with Creation Order Rather than the Decalogue for Moral Law - 39:00
• Dividing Up the Law and How It Should Be Used Today in Political Theology - 41:14
• Reflection 8 - 43:40
• Reflection 9 - 50:12
• Reflection 10 - 53:36
• Reflection 11 – 56:50
• Reflection 12 - 1:02:06
• Closing Thoughts & Outro - 1:04:23

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Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum catch up with Andy Naselli to discuss his recent longform essay for Christ Over All in which Andy provides a taxonomy of views on religion and government.

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Introduction - 00:44

Where Did Andy Naselli Begin Studying the Issues of Political Theology? – 02:55

Naselli’s Internship With American Reformer 04:14 

Dr. Wellum’s Take on Naselli’s Article – 05:21

Defining ‘Religion’ and ‘Government’ and Why Those Terms are Better for this Conversation - 07:16

Notable Things in The First and Second Views - 10:00

Unpacking the Third View (Classical Liberalism) - 13:46

Knowing About John Rawls - 16:08

The Fourth View – 17:20

View Four and Five are Not Christian Nationalists - 21:12

First and Second Tables of the Law Applying Today with Views Four & Five - 22:06

Did the ‘Baptist Project’ Require Christendom? - 23:34

The Fifth View and the Magisterial Reformers - 27:00

What About the In-between Views? - 34:25

The Sixth View, Rushdoony, and Islam- 37:26

The Seventh View: Government Enforcing Religion - 42:16 

Reflections After Research - 46:22

Where Should We Start With Political Theology? - 51:21

What to Do Right Now? - 57:00

Final Thoughts – 1:01:38

Outro - 1:03:51

This is the article we've all been waiting for: something to help clear up the confusion that surrounds the relationship between views on church and government. Andy Naselli provides a taxonomy of seven views on the spectrum of how people see church and government relating.

The biblical covenants which give shape to Scripture finally culminate in the New Covenant established by Jesus Christ. What does this mean for the church, God's New Covenant people?

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• Introduction - 00:51
• What Has Feedback Been Like for This Month? - 3:30
• The Covenant With Adam - 5:00
• What is the Relation Between Creation and Covenant? - 07:55
• The Continuing Relevance of the Creation Covenant - 11:27
• How Does the Covenant of Noah Interact with the Rest of the Biblical Story? - 14:54
• The Noahic Covenant Effects Your Political Theology - 19:31
• Where in the Bible Does the Noahic Covenant Help Us Understand Salvation? - 23:38
• Abrahamic Covenant: One Covenant or Two? - 25:50
• How Do We Move From Abraham to Christ in Preaching? - 32:32
• What are Some Key Things in Understanding the Mosaic Covenant? - 35:48
• How is ‘the Law’ Related to ‘Natural Law’? - 41:03
• What is the Davidic Covenant? - 45:53
• How Does this Covenant Move towards the New Covenant? - 52:40
• How Do Old Testament Saints Relate to the New Covenant? - 56:53
• How Does 1689 view of the Covenant of Grace Differ or Relate to the Progressive Covenantalist View of the New Covenant? -  58:35
• What about the Covenant of Redemption? - 1:03:57
• How Has Progressive Covenantalism Helped in Preaching? - 1:06:43
• Outro – 1:11:03

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The biblical covenants which give shape to Scripture finally culminate in the New Covenant established by Jesus Christ. What does this mean for the church, God's New Covenant people?

Timestamps

• Introduction - 00:56
• How Dr. Wellum Started to Think about Covenants? – 01:36
• How Did Dr. Gentry and Dr. Wellum Start Working on Kingdom Through Covenant? - 03:30
• What Were Some Differences in the Second Edition of KtC? – 05:50
• Differences Between Progressive Covenantalism and 1689 Federalism - 07:30
• How Have Dispensationalists Responded to Progressive Covenantalism? - 12:25
• Dealing With the Types of Land, Circumcision, and Sabbath? - 16:20
• Looking at the Three Different Horizons - 22:07
• Typological Structures – 26:15
• Why the Sabbath is Not Binding Today – 31:18
• How Does the Noahic Covenant Apply Today? - 34:23
• The Four Seeds of Abraham – 37:30
• The Law Comes as a Package – 39:57
• How Does the Davidic Covenant Help Us See the Intention for Royalty in the World? - 42:40
• How Does the Priesthood Relate to the New Covenant? - 44:55
• Outro - 46:54

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Ideas have consequences, and, as we'll see, how we read Genesis 1–11 impacts such fundamental questions as Who is man? and What is his mission?

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• Introduction - 00:41
• Michael Carlino’s Biography - 04:10
• Carlino’s Application of Kingdom Through Covenant - 07:40
• The Simple Thesis of Michael Carlino’s Article - 09:26
• What is David VanDrunen Doing with Genesis 1-11? - 13:31
• Dr. Wellum’s Thoughts on Bavinck’s View of Creation and Covenant - 16:27
• How Do We See a Covenant in the Beginning Chapters of Genesis? - 20:40
• How Do We Understand the Relationship Between the Covenants with Adam and Noah? - 26:00
• Is the Noahic Covenant Still Being Enacted Today? - 33:30
• The Weightiness of Words - 38:24
• A Different Understanding of Natural Law - 40:35
• Why Not Go to Postmillenialism and Theonomy? - 44:30
• Outro – 50:33

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