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By Jules Gomes, PhD, Blog, Souls and Liberty, July 16, 2024
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.
Will the USA’s second family be a model of syncretism or Christianity?
I first met JD Vance in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, in July 2019. He didn’t sport a dignified beard then, but he exuded a sense of the purpose-driven life, just as he does today.
We were both among several speakers invited to address the National Conservatism Conference — the brainchild of Jewish political philosopher Yoram Hazony, whose book The Virtue of Nationalism was just causing a stir.
As an Old Testament scholar, I had found Hazony’s earlier book, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, hugely compelling and I was looking forward to what the conference had to offer.
My own topic for the conference was on Christianity, Globalism, & the Nation, and I was looking forward to what the other speakers had to offer on the topic of this heady new cocktail Hazony called “national conservatism.” …
