Douglas Wilson (theologian)

thumb | right Douglas James Wilson (b. 1953) is an American conservative Reformed and evangelical Christian theologian and pastor. Wilson leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, in which capacity he has taken leading roles in the Evangelical Churches and the classical Christian education movement. He is a public proponent of postmillennialism, Christian nationalism, covenant theology, and biblical patriarchy. Wilson, a self-described "paleo-Confederate", first garnered extensive media coverage in 2004, when he held a conference which publicized his controversial stance on American slavery]]. Quotes Women Wives are to be submissive to their own husbands in everything. The marriage service rightly includes a vow for the bride to obey her husband. 21 Theses on Submission in Marriage, July 17, 2017 Women who refuse protection from their fathers and husbands must seek it from the police. But women who genuinely insist on no masculine protection are really women who tacitly agree on the propriety of rape. "For Doug Wilson's neighbors, CNN documentary a reminder Moscow is Christian nationalism's ground zero" Religion News Service (March 24, 2026) Women have a deep creational need to be loved and led, so that they might submit and follow, and men have a deep creational need to be respected and followed, and when these needs are thwarted or otherwise frustrated, the end result is deep unhappiness for both sexes. 21 Theses on Submission in Marriage, July 17, 2017 The fact that civil leadership by a woman is not part of the general creation order (which it is not), and rule by women generally is treated by Scripture as a curse, which it is, does not mean that any given instance of a woman ruling has to mean that the woman is disobedient, and/or that the men around her are wusses. The Bible never says that. In other words, outside the Church, a woman in a position of authority over men ought to be treated as an anomaly, not as a sin or a disgrace. Democrats of the Shining Dawn, September 25, 2008, https://dougwils.com/books/democrats-of-the-shining-dawn.html Homosexuality What’s wrong with being used? It is the great sin of homosexual men that they abandon the natural use of the woman. Is it not? The Natural Use of the Woman, January 24, 2022 But then there are the gaytards. These are the people — homosexual, straight, and whatever Justin Bieber is — who are the ideal receptacle for the cultural propaganda served up by our duly appointed thought managers. They believe in “gay rights“ for the same reason that they believe in climate change. The cool kids have decreed what is “in,“ and the wannabe cool kids will enforce it on the unconvinced with a ferocity that can scarcely be credited. They do this in the hope that the cool kids will notice them, and promote them to better things. These people amuse themselves by taunting people ten times shrewder than they are as “low information voters.“ Gaywalkers, Gaytards, and the Gaystapo, April 7, 2014 Slavery The “peculiar institution“ of slavery was not perfect or sinless, but the reality was a far cry from the horrific descriptions given to us in modern histories, which are often nothing more than a hackneyed reworking of abolitionist propaganda. Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. Southern Slavery As It Was, 1996, Steve Wilkins & Douglas Wilson, P. 9-10 Didn’t sexual exploitation undermine and destroy the black family? Critics of the South have consistently answered in the affirmative. They accuse slave owners and overseers of turning plantations into personal harems. Again, unfortunately for the thesis, the evidence on which these assumptions and conclusions are based is extremely limited. Such arguments overlook the real and potentially large costs that confronted masters and overseers who sought sexual pleasures in the slave quarters. It would have been much easier, and less risky, for owners of large plantations to keep a mistress in town than to risk the possibility of the destruction of his own family by taking up with a slave woman. For the overseer, the cost of sexual episodes in the slave quarters, once discovered, was often his job. Nor would he find it easy to obtain employment elsewhere as an overseer, since not many masters would be willing to employ as their manager a man who was known to lack self-control on so vital an issue. Further, to imply that black men would be indifferent to the sexual abuse of their women is to imply that they were somehow less manly than other men who would be indignant over such abuse. This common assumption about slave men is not only unrealistic and unsubstantiated but an insult to their humanity and patently racist. Southern Slavery As It Was, 1996, Steve Wilkins & Douglas Wilson, P. 15 Slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since. Whatever its failures, slavery produced in the South a degree of mutual affection between the races which will never be achieved through any federally-mandated efforts. Southern Slavery As It Was, Steve Wilkins & Douglas Wilson, P. 18 Our humanistic and democratic culture regards slavery in itself as a monstrous evil, malum in se, and it acts as though this were self-evidently true. The Bible permits Christians in slave-owning cultures to own slaves, provided they are treated well. You are a Christian. Whom do you believe? Douglas Wilson. Black & Tan. P.47 Theocracy I’m a theocrat, not a secularist. Theocracy and the Tijuana Brass, January 17, 2018 Secularism: we need to abandon the idea of secularism, and replace it with the biblical doctrine of three distinct governments—family, church, and state, all of them under the authority and lordship of Jesus Christ. White Boy Summer, or How Republics Rot, May 30, 2022 So what I am arguing for here is a Christocentric theonomy—theonomy as though the Christ had come. It is not a question of whether the law of God is just, but rather a matter of how that standard of justice is to be implemented throughout the world. It will eventually show up in the law, but it will not be implement(sic) through the law. This is why my ideal Christian republic, set sometime in the future, would not have a law requiring a parapet around the roofs of houses, but would nevertheless hold a home owner liable for damages if a guest fell off a second-story deck that had no rail and broke his arm. You look at a situation, discern the principle, and apply it to a new situation. This means that as we teach the nations and tribes to obey every one of the Lord’s commands, and to submit to all of His teachings, this would include His teaching that Old Testament Scripture cannot be broken, and that He did not come to abolish the law but rather to fulfill it. Free Speech in a Christian Theocracy, May 24, 2021 Education The sooner the current government school system collapses, the better it will be for everyone, including those who were enrolled at the time the schools fell apart. Douglas Wilson. The Case for Classical Christian Education. P. 18-19 Under our current circumstances, the first action to take, if it applies, is for parents to pull their own children out of the government school system and never think about putting them back in. The first motive for doing this is the protection (spiritual, covenantal, academic, etc.) of the children. Douglas Wilson. The Case for Classical Christian Education. P. 18-19 Education is a religious endeavor for every student. “Make that godless, and his life is made godless.“ In the nineteenth century, secular education was established because many Christians were fatally persuaded of the myth of neutrality. They were told that there were many areas of life that could be studied apart from any reference to the authority of Scripture. They accepted the pluralistic nature of American public life, not as a social reality requiring intensive missionary activity, but rather as an authoritative voice, requiring every practitioner of every religion to submit and fit in. And this is why even today we hear “pluralism“ as a code word requiring Christians to shut up. Of course, we are a pluralistic country. And ancient Rome was a pluralistic empire, but Jesus still told His disciples to preach the Gospel there. Properly understood, pluralism is simply another name for polytheism. Douglas Wilson. The Case for Classical Christian Education. P.35 The kids are taught that they evolved from some primordial goo and that their lives have no transcendent meaning. Everything is vanity, everything is worthless. Morality is what you, the student, want it to be. And then when some of the kids, natural inhibitions loosened by the drugs, take this curricular lesson out to the logical practicum and start blowing fellow students away, bits of protoplasm every one of them, those in authority wonder where this behavior is coming from. Douglas Wilson. The Case for Classical Christian Education. P.18 If you and your school have not been accused of racism yet, etc. then you are not doing your job. The Necessity of Cultural Engagement, June 24, 2022 References Slavery As It Was - A Monograph by Steve Wilkins & Douglas Wilson, 1996 21 Theses on Submission in Marriage, July 17, 2017 Democrats of the Shining Dawn, September 25, 2008 Gaywalkers, Gaytards, and the Gaystapo, April 7, 2014 External links Category: Clergy