The Civitas Podcast
Hosted by James Wood and Peter Leithart · Theopolis Institute
4.8from 62 ratings
- 47
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 62
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About The Civitas Podcast
The Civitas Podcast, co-hosted by Peter Leithart and James Wood, exists to explore Christian political theology, with a specific focus on contemporary debates about liberalism and post-liberalism, and to elaborate a distinctively "ecclesiocentric" Theopolitan version of post-liberalism.
- Publisher
- Theopolis Institute
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 28 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 47 episodes have a transcript.
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 47: The Freedom of the Church - A Conversation with Steven Smith
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 46: A Commonwealth of Hope - A Conversation with Michael Lamb
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 45: America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church — A Conversation with Reuben Slife
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Episode 47: The Freedom of the Church - A Conversation with Steven Smith
Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I don't think that the First Amendment was in More specifically, intended to adopt any particular version, you know, as the constitutional version across the board, from which we can then just try to interpret and derive answers to all of the specific questions that arise. So I don't think the risk of relativism is too, you know, it's too threatening here. And I certainly don't favor going in that direction. Yeah. You mentioned the Middle Ages, and that brings us to the topic that I said we were going to talk about on this podcast, which is the freedom of the church. One of the ways that you come to your jurisdictional interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses is by tracing the history of struggles between the church and the state back into the Middle Ages and see the First Amendment as the fruit of that. […]
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- Steven D Smith
- Michael Lamb
- Reuben Slife
- Michael RJ Bonner
- Brad Wilcox
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 36 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100
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- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts The Civitas Podcast?
James Wood and Peter Leithart host the show. Published by Theopolis Institute.
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