Let’s Talk About Christian Nationalism
The Candler Foundry
COURSE INFORMATION
Course Dates: May 6 - May 27, 2026
Course Time: Wednesdays, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET (Online)
Course Description
Should a Christian be a patriot? Is there a difference between patriotism and nationalism? How can I love my country when it seems to have forgotten the ideas on which it was built? On the nation’s America’s 250th anniversary, and a time of deep division, this course offers new ways to think about faith, democracy and nationhood. Drawing on a range of iconic and lesser-known thinkers, it confronts the problem of Christian nationalism with the patriotism of peace.
For more information, please email our Assistant Director of Community Learning and Partnerships, Donnell Williamson, at dwilliamson@emory.edu.
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Meet the Instructor
Dr. Dominic Erdozain
Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson is Candler School of Theology’s Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus, Emory’s most distinguished endowed chair. A noted scholar and an award-winning teacher, Johnson taught at Yale Divinity School and Indiana University prior to arriving at Candler in 1992. His research concerns the literary, moral and religious dimensions of the New Testament, including the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters, and the Letter of James. Read more here.
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