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God’s Own Country: Rethinking Christian Patriotism

God’s Own Country: Rethinking Christian Patriotism

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Nick Spencer: “I think that’s problematic because it takes the universalist notion of Christianity without also taking the incarnational notion of Christianity which is local and which does have specific identities. So it is perfectly fine to consider yourself part of an ethnic group, because you are. It is perfectly fine to consider yourself a member of a family or a community because you are. It is perfectly fine to consider yourself part of a nation or historically an empire even, because you are.”


Jo Swinney | Read the full article at Premier Christianity

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 22 June 2017

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