Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs
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Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs
Danny Kruger MP: On Family, Neighbourhood and Nation
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Danny Kruger joins the Rev’d Dr Jamie Franklin to talk about his new book Covenant: The New Politics of Family, Neighbourhood and Nation. Topics discussed:
- Danny’s intellectual and political influences including that of Edmund Burke.
- Reasons to be fearful for life on earth and how “The Order” of duty and unchosen obligations can help us to preserve ourself against them.
- The covenantal institutions of family, neighbourhood and nation.
- The influence of Christianity and the inheritance that the modern west receives from it.
- The job of the state: the creation of the conditions of virtue.
- Is such a state possible in a secular society without Christianity?
- The connection between religious beliefs and politics.
- The National Conservatism conference, the importance of family and the pushback from Matt Hancock and others.
- Danny’s late conversion to lockdown scepticism and comments on Andrew Bridgen’s campaign to investigate excess deaths.
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00:00-03:33 Welcome Danny Kruger: Intellectual and political background.
03:34-04:50 Personal Background: Transcending individual autonomy and the free market and becoming a Christian
04:51-12:00 Core Argument of Covenant: Reasons to be fearful and antithesis between The Idea and The Order
12:01-13:20 The covenantal institutions of family, neighbourhood and nation
13:21-18:58 The failure of political Enlightenment Rationalism, post-modern Neo-Marxism and the influence of Christianity
18:59-22:20 The job of the state: to create the conditions of virtue
22:21-27:33 Is such a state possible in Modern Britain without a revival of Christianity?
27:34-32:07 The connection between metaphysical and religious belief and politics
32:08-38:15 The National Conservatism conference and pushback on comments on importance of family
38:16-End Danny’s conversion to lockdown scepticism and comments on Andrew Bridgen