The Bible and Politics Davenant Hall Course
![Alastair Roberts](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/5467369947627995392.jpeg?h=80&t=0&w=80&s=IJyfj_EQTrJx-wjBVCp_gIeUpdO8TGN948w1QcasoGI)
You can register for this course here: https://davenanthall.com/product/bible-and-politics/.
The words and teachings of the Bible are frequently deployed and appealed to in our political discourses. Yet such engagement with the Bible is typically superficial and merely rhetorical; while the Bible affords shallow prooftexts and resonant turns of phrase, it is seldom serving as a deep and guiding source of wisdom in our political thinking. In recent decades, after a long period of neglect, the importance of the Bible’s influence in historic political reflection has received growing attention. In addition to considering such retrievals of the Bible’s significance as a political text for historic thinkers, this course will seek to discover more of the Bible’s enduring insight and generative potential for political reflection. We will investigate some of the variegated ways that the Bible encourages, serves, and directs our political reflection and consider how we can engage with its voice most responsibly and profitably.
More From Alastair Roberts
![The Transfiguration of Christ (with Patrick Schreiner)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/9160321642072083734.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=ybyuOFbouzLnKBnNPKt4cfPUie-G12kWDvFBZSryG_U)
![Conspiracy Theory and Autodidact Brain (with Susannah Roberts and Derek Rishmawy)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/513410357522008337.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=dIuOO6mezJ0A43amy3aY9EcOuG8wxh6S5QwMYpExAxE)
![The Internet is the Negative World](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/1846475847224134985.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=MzW3lMoZyxv9QD1NmGQe1uJ1xGXI8IqwaCSK29l1uWc)
![What's Wrong With "Postmillennialism"?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8637904085297234847.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=RQOBa3SEFd4Ww3X0NbVlGJO0a_KTvYF2GLugaaFgR0M)
![Critical Dilemma (with Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/2999397351829012730.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=m6vQ6OUbXoLyMf8kQaWOEaP5U9dW5KUJwA3mrka6qVQ)
![Sunday (with Jack Franicevich)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/1233986297899901958.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=gPTU6ETl7mDHRkO6Z5oLJQ1FJIZ2mJ4keP7W5zx2_7U)
More on OpenTheo
![Screening Screens](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/6332061076083213516.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=dfoYJk6F0BUsOnQRcpKIqVatWt_V4U3WuG77kzfBhjU)
![Lydia McGrew Answered! On Paraphrase](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/2549037389094115201.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=TXp_lTfXdoPo_J2in4dgG-bg4sh33jqdlgTWOxv0nBI)
![Why Would You Say Evolution Has No Purpose?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Is Post-Mortem Salvation an Orthodox Doctrine?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Do You Believe in the Clarity of Scripture?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Why Weren’t the Israelites Explicitly Forbidden to Practice Polygamy?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Lydia McGrew Answered! Are the Gospels Greco-Roman Biographies?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/2549037389094115201.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=TXp_lTfXdoPo_J2in4dgG-bg4sh33jqdlgTWOxv0nBI)
![What Should I Say to a Reformed Christian Who Dismisses Many Non-Believers as Lost Causes?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![#221 Big Questions for Tom from Children: why did God make mosquitos? why does this world suffer?! did God create hell? (replay)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/900719925474666491.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=iklzYzK_9Tkamda4NMyKMyA_v-F2-QWHQd3vbp2Qpeg)
![Are the Crusades Proof That Christians Are Evil?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Anticipations of Pentecost (with Rev Benjamin Miller)](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/5260204364770376706.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=evHp2HenrfmdW7y74-wr9MY7HDBHOVfEKK_zsEtXZ2s)
![Doesn’t Acts Argue That Not All Believers Receive the Holy Spirit?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![Lydia McGrew Answered! Black & White Thinking](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/2549037389094115201.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=TXp_lTfXdoPo_J2in4dgG-bg4sh33jqdlgTWOxv0nBI)
![Was Jesus’ Death Really a Sacrifice if He Knew He Would Rise Again?](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/8727976077844167577.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=APfQu9ZET4PcyHQJWvEfOpC6rbhSEgkg978Hy0-iTlE)
![The Blessing (and Danger) of Authority with Jonathan Leeman](https://opentheo.org/_content/image/id/4593671619917993571.jpeg?h=224&t=0&w=224&s=b6IXcmfjUv2RNvm_FJwgBcqPeqcZo1U4LFqVu7tp8yg)