Jonathan Leeman Special lectures: The Church in the World (lecture one)

Pastors’ Academy

Johnathan Leeman delivered our special lectures this year.

Here is a summary of the lecture series provided by Jonathan: The Church in the World: What is a church and where does it fit onto the landscape of a nation? What’s the relationship between religion and politics, and is that the same thing as the relationship between church and state? What’s the church’s mission and how do Christians live individually and corporately as citizens of heaven here and now? What is justice and are a Christian’s responsibilities for doing justice different than a church’s? These are the kinds of questions to be tackled in this course, which brings together the two fields of ecclesiology and political theology.

Dr Jonathan Leeman is the editorial director for 9Marks. He is the author of a number of books, including Political Church: The Local Church As Embassy Of Christ’s Rule and How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided

We aim to upload one lecture a week (4 in total).