Exploring Christian Voting Patterns and Critical Theory in the Church

Jon talks to Jared Lovell about Thomas Aquinas, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Revolution. We examine the differences between scholasticism and classical liberalism, theonomy, and libertarianism.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:24 Modern Liberals

00:10:37 Natural Law vs. Natural Rights

00:19:05 Reason and the Fall of Man

00:23:54 Rights

00:38:02 Enlightenment Rationalism

00:53:47 State of Nature

01:03:13 The Founding

01:15:08 Solutions