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This chapter interprets the imaginary of the nation against the backdrop of its theo-political predecessor: the Corpus Christianum. Both are characterized by a normative interconnection of people, land, and culture, which complicates the common binary of civic and ethnic nationhood. The category of the nation, however, was instrumentalized politically to overcome religious fragmentation and foster social coherence. In order to create this relatively greater inclusivity of belonging, the concept of the nation already severed the bond between belonging and denominationally grounded beliefs. This severing caused tensions within historically dominant churches, which had operated along the majority-minority binary for centuries. Through the lens of the conflict between the Dutch Reformed pastors Abraham Kuyper and Philippus Hoedemaker, Mariëtta van der Tol explores the possibility of a Christian nation and its relationship to the normative interconnection of people, land, and culture. This is relevant in the context of right-wing populism today: their negative instrumentalization of the culturalization of religion in the nation forces political theology to rearticulate the relationship between Christianity and culture. Can political theology develop a framework for positive engagement with culture which reasserts belief in the church’s engagement with culture, without claiming an exclusive cultural normativity?