The Civitas Podcast Theopolis Institute

James Wood and Peter Leithart talk with Tim Carney about ways that today's America is unfriendly to families.Timothy Carney is a father of six children, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner. Tim and his wife, Katie, have raised their family in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. He grew up with three older brothers in Greenwich Village and later in Pelham, New York. Pick up Family Unfriendly HERE.He is also the author of Alienat...

Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Dr. Ephraim Radner about his latest book, Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty._Ephraim Radner (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, an evangelical seminary of the Anglican tradition at the University of Toronto, where he teaches both ministerial and doctoral students. He is the author and editor of several books on ecclesiology, ecumenism, the nature of Scripture, natural theology, pneumatology,...

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss Augustine, politics, and the earthly city with Dr. Veronica Ogle. _Dr. Ogle is the author of Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine's City of God, and is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought and the Augustinian Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Villanova University.

Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss human rights and liberalism with Samuel Moyn._Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University.He received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He came to Yale from Harvard University, where he was Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History. Before this, he spent thirteen years in the Columbia University h...

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 I...

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 Leit...