John Wilsey Is Priming Conservatives for Religious Freedom
For this week’s episode of the Acton Line I spoke with John Wilsey, professor of church history and chair of the Department of Church History and Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary about his new book, Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer.
John’s book is great and, in addition to its primary purpose, serves as a great introduction to the conservatism of the poet Peter Viereck.
How have the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty existed harmoniously in the American tradition? Is religious traditionalism antithetical to dispositional conservativism? What should secular dispositional conservatives make of religion?
Watch and listen to find out!