Saturday, September 28 9:00 am - Session 1 "A Biblical Theology of Civil Government" 10:15 am - Session 2 "The Rise and Fall of Christendom" 11:30 am - Q and A 12:00 pm - Lunch Sunday, September 29 9:30 am - Session 3 "Responsible Citizens, Patient Sojourners" 11:00 am - Morning Worship 1:00pm - Lunch 

Dr. Van Drunen is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World (Zondervan Academic, 2020), named Book of the Year (2021) in Politics and Public Life by Christianity Today. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals, including Journal of Reformed Theology, Journal of Law and Religion, and Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian--ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically. That is to say, most Western Christians lived in Christendom. But in a gradual process beginning a few hundred years ago, Christendom weakened and finally crumbled. Today, most Christians in the world live in pluralistic political communities. And Christians themselves have very different opinions about what to make of the demise of Christendom and how to understand their status and responsibilities in a post-Christendom world.

Politics After Christendom argues that Scripture leaves Christians well-equipped for living in a world such as this. Politics After Christendom explains what Scripture teaches about political community and about Christians' responsibilities within their own communities.