Dr. Larry Chapp interviews Dr. William Cavanaugh

A discussion of Cavanaugh's book "Field Hospital" and issues of Church and State

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16:10 McCarraher's "misenchantment" thesis is is similar (with some differences) to Jacob Josephson-Storm's thesis (as seen in his book, the Myth of Disenchantment)

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William Cavanaugh's theology reminds me of a story my dad told me when I was a kid... he was an elder at a Presbyterian church. When someone suggested putting a Canadian flag in the sanctuary, he objected ferociously and refused to allow it in there. At that time, the Canadian flag was even more relatively benign and non-jingoistic than it is now: this being decades before Canada's reputation as a place of secular smugness on the one hand, or the convoy protest on the other. (The convoy protest was itself riddled with flags). Nonetheless, it would have been a statement of sacralizing the nation-state and indeed the placement of a graven image in the holy place. Looking back, I can now see how prophetic his action was.

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"Jesus sprinkles" 😆

[@johnstewart7025]

One of your guests seemed to imply that the church recognized Christ as God because otherwise the emperor would claim superiority over the church as "a son of God."