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Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. This is superlatively true for Christians, as they live consciously and conscientiously in two kingdoms, one earthy and the other heavenly, serving a divine king and, under him, also an earthly one. The kingdom of God directs our sights to the universal relationship in Christ while leaving us separately embodied in particular families and communities\u2014the one does not supplant these others\u2014which both require and merit devotion and self-sacrifice. This tension between love of one\u2019s own and the uniquely Christian universal love can be seen in the currently employed and contentiously scrutinized term Christian nationalism. Though seemingly an oxymoron, it recognizes and makes sense of the necessary coincidence of our inescapable particularity with our participation in and dependence on larger realities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCome back to https:\/\/Watchman.News<\/a> for news updates every hour. Find news from many other outlets that work on a standpoint of National Conservatism.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. This is superlatively true for Christians, as they live consciously and conscientiously in two kingdoms, one earthy and the other heavenly, serving a divine king and, under him, also an earthly one. The kingdom of God directs our sights to the universal relationship in Christ while leaving us separately embodied in particular families and communities\u2014the one does not supplant these others\u2014which both require and merit devotion and self-sacrifice. This tension between love of one\u2019s own and the uniquely Christian universal love can be seen in the currently employed and contentiously scrutinized term Christian nationalism. Though seemingly an oxymoron, it recognizes and makes sense of the necessary coincidence of our inescapable particularity with our participation in and dependence on larger realities.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146140,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"seo_booster_metabox":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-conservatism-news"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Universal and the Particular in Christian Political Life: Secular and Sacred Reflections on Christian Nationalism - Watchman News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/15\/12\/1528\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pl_PL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Universal and the Particular in Christian Political Life: Secular and Sacred Reflections on Christian Nationalism - Watchman News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. 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