James Wood and Peter Leithart are joined by special guest, Dr. Andrew Jones, to discuss his works "The Two Cities," and "Before Church and State."Dr. Jones is a professor of theology and the Director of Catholic Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also the founding editor of New Polity. Select Bibliography: The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2021)Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX, (Emmaus Academic, 2017) Evidence of Things Unseen: An Introduction to Fundamental Theology (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019)The Word Became Flesh: An Introduction to Christology (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019)This Is My Body: An Introduction to Ecclesiology (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019)Other Published Articles: “What States Can’t Do” New Polity (online) https://newpolity.com/blog/what-states-cant-do?rq=subsidiarity “Catholic Ironies: A Review of George Weigel’s The Irony of Modern Catholic History,” First Things, November 2019, 45-48.“The Postliberal Moment” Postliberal Thought https://www.postliberalthought.com/blog/2018/10/10/what-is-liberalism “What the Nationalists Get Wrong: A Defense of the Particular and the Universal” Postliberal Thought. https://www.postliberalthought.com/blog//a-defense-of-the-particular-and-the-universal 

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss key texts in their thinking through political theology. 0:00 - 10:00James Wood on Leslie Newbigin10:00 - 20:35Peter Leithart on RJ Rushdoony  20:35 - 31:30James Wood on William Cavanaugh31:30 - 36:00Peter Leithart on Stanley Hauerwas"The church doesn't have a social ethic, it is a social ethic." - SH36:00 - 44:00James Wood on Oliver O'Donovan44:00 - 52:30Peter Leithart on John Milbank52:30 - 59:40James Wood on  Henri de Lubac59:40Peter Leithart on DC Schindler

James Wood and Peter Leithart discuss some highlights from the past year of the Civitas Group and the podcast. Peter Leithart then leads a discussion on three of James' recent essays, which can be found below with timestamps. (12:35) 1. Ordering our Social Loves, at Ad Fontes/Commonwealth(39:22)2. How Abraham Kuyper Lost the Nation and Sidelined the Church, at Ad Fontes(57:48)3. Can the Church Still Speak? - in Comment Magazine. Click HERE for James' author page at Ad Fontes.

James Wood and Peter Leithart are joined by special guest, Ross Douthat, to discuss the new right and post-liberalism._Ross Douthat is an opinion columnist at The New York Times, and is also a host on the weekly Opinion podcast, “Matter of Opinion.” Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger on its website.A prolific writer, Mr. Douthat has written for The Atlantic and National Review and has been published widely in the popular press. He is the author of several books including The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery (2021) “The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success” (2020); “To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism” (2018); “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics” (2012); “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream” (2008), which he coauthored with Reihan Salam; and “Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class” (Hyperion Books, 2005).He has a BA in history from Harvard University.Click HERE for Douthat's articles at First Things. 

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest, Professor Nancy Pearcey, to discuss her recent work on the war on masculinity._Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners: How Now Shall We Live (coauthored with Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) and Total Truth. Her books have been translated into 19 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest Eric Gregory to discuss Augustinian civic liberalism and political theology._Eric Gregory is director of graduate studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University, where he has served on the faculty since 2001. He is a world-renowned scholar in Christian Ethics and Policital theology.He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and articles in a variety of edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and Augustinian Studies. His interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. In 2007 he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.A graduate of Harvard College, he earned an M.Phil. and Diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at New York University School of Law. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled, What Do We Owe Strangers? Globalization and the Good Samaritan, which examines the ethics of humanitarianism in light of secular and religious perspectives on global justice.He serves on the board of directors of the Society of Christian Ethics and the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics.

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by special guest Oliver O'Donovan to discuss political theology._Oliver O’Donovan, born in 1945 in London, held teaching posts at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Wycliffe College Toronto before becoming Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church at the University of Oxford in 1982. He was Professor of Christian Ethics & Practical Theology at Edinburgh from 2006 to 2012. Ordained as a priest of the Church of England, he was an active participant in ecumenical dialogue and a past President of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2000.He has held distinguished visiting lectureships in Cambridge, Durham, Rome, Hamilton, Pasadena and Hong Kong, and delivered the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University in 2021.He is the author of The Problem of Self-Love in Saint Augustine (Yale 1979), Begotten or Made? (Oxford University Press, 1984), Resurrection and Moral Order (Eerdmans, 1986), On the Thirty-Nine Articles (Paternoster, 1986), Peace and Certainty (Eerdmans, 1989), The Desire of the Nations (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Common Objects of Love (Eerdmans, 2002), The Ways of Judgment (2005), Self World and Time (2013), Finding and Seeking (2014) and Entering into Rest (2017).He was married to Joan Lockwood ODonovan in 1978 in Toronto. They have two sons, both musicians.Jointly he and his wife are the authors of a well-received collection of readings in the history of Christian political thought, From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100 - 1625 (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1999) and of a volume of essays, Bonds of Imperfection. Christian politics past and present (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2004). The O’Donovans were married in 1978, and have two sons and four grandchildren.

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by James Patterson to discuss Neo-Integralism, Fulton Sheen, Americanism, and more. _Dr. Patterson is an associate professor and the chairman of the politics department at Ave Maria University; a fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy; a fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology; a contributing editor of Law & Liberty; a member of affiliated faculty with the Jack Miller Center, and the president of the Ciceronian Society.-The Civitas Podcast, co-hosted by Peter Leithart and James Wood, exists to explore Christian political theology, with a specific focus on contemporary debates about liberalism and post-liberalism, and to elaborate a distinctively "ecclesiocentric" Theopolitan version of post-liberalism. -Articles referenced in this episode: No to Neo-Integralismby: James Pattersonhttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/01/23/no-to-neo-integralism/After Republican Virtueby: James Pattersonhttps://lawliberty.org/after-republican-virtue/Two Forms of Catholic Nationalismhttps://lawliberty.org/two-forms-of-catholic-nationalism/

Peter Leithart and James Wood are joined by Jerry Bowyer to discuss corporations, wokeism, discipling businesses, and economics.  _Jerry Bowyer is the chief economist of Vident Financial, editor of Townhall Finance, editor of the business channel of The Christian Post, host of Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer podcast, president of Bowyer Research, and author of The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics. He is also resident economist with Kingdom Advisors, serves on the Editorial Board of Salem Communications, and is senior fellow in financial economics at the Center for Cultural Leadership. Jerry lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan, and the youngest three of his seven children.-The Civitas Podcast, co-hosted by Peter Leithart and James Wood, exists to explore Christian political theology, with a specific focus on contemporary debates about liberalism and post-liberalism, and to elaborate a distinctively "ecclesiocentric" Theopolitan version of post-liberalism. 

Peter Leithart, theologian, and author delves into liberalism, two kingdom theology, Lockean reductionism in Christian political theology. They discuss church reforms, state relations, semantic shifts in the New Testament, and the church's disruptive role in state politics. Exploring the relevance of two kingdoms thought in a post-Christian society and the church's authority in addressing societal issues.