America's "Hebraic Christianity" Culture | Joshua Mitchell

About this episode

Joshua Mitchell discusses America's Hebraic culture and its implications for contemporary Christianity.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Georgetown Professor Joshua Mitchell explains why America remains a deeply Hebraic, covenantal nation — and why the current culture war is best understood as a distorted continuation of the Reformation. From the Plato-Aristotle divide to Luther’s turn to history, from Tocqueville’s warnings to the spiritual economy of stain and redemption, Mitchell offers a profound diagnosis of where American Christianity stands today. Watch until the end for a hopeful (ye...

People in this episode

Host: Aaron Renn

Guest: Joshua Mitchell

Topics covered

• Hebraic Christianity
• American culture
• covenantal nation
• culture war
• Reformation
• spiritual economy

Keywords

• Hebraic Christianity
• covenantal nation
• culture war
• Reformation
• American Christianity
• spiritual economy
• Tocqueville
• Luther
• Plato
• Aristotle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgetown

Books & works: Reformation

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