Quotes from “Reformed… And Always Reforming?”

By James Skillen (2009)

• Most Christians today … are Anabaptists in the sense that they contend for free churches in open societies with governments that give equal treatment to all citizens regardless of their faith.#
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• The problem was not in considering Israel as a pedagogue for the new Israel in Christ but in imagining that a modern state (rather than the international and transtemporal body of Christ) could be the new Israel.#
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• One of the great idolatries of American self-identity as a new Israel is a kind of civil-religious nationalism, rooted not in a common bloodline but in the adoption of a secularized idea of our nation as God’s new covenant people, God’s lead nation in history.#
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