A Major Difference Between 2K and R2K

When historic Two Kingdom (2K) theology was developed it was developed so as to keep the Pagan state from overstepping their bounds as it pertained to Church matters. So, for example, the Church reminded Charles I (I might have the King wrong… going from memory) that when it came to matters of the Church he was merely a member in the Church like the rest of the members. He had no Jurisdiction over Church affairs as King.

However, what Radical Two Kingdom (R2K) has done is to flip this arrangement. What R2K “theology” does is that it keeps the Church from influencing the pagan State, going so far as to suggest that the Church doesn’t have a role in speaking a “thus saith the Lord,” to the Magistrates in what it calls “the common realm.”

Whereas original 2K was concerned with protecting the Christian Church from pagan influence, R2K is concerned with protecting the pagan State from Christian influence.

I don’t think one needs historic 2k as much when the whole social order is shaped by the Christian ethos. It just wouldn’t be an issue where the State and the Church are both expressly Christian. However, for the times when either Church or State went haywire 2k allows the Christian Church as against the pagan State or the Christian state as against a apostate Church to exercise a godly interposition.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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