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'Rousas John Rushdoony' (25 April 1916 – 8 February 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of both Christian Reconstructionism and the modern homeschool movement.[1][2] His prolific writings have exerted considerable influence on the Christian right.[3]
Rushdoony was born in New York City, the son of recently arrived Armenian immigrants. Before his parents fled the Armenian Genocide of 1915, his ancestors had lived in a remote area near Mount Ararat for about 2000 years.[4] Within weeks, his parents moved to Kingsburg, California, where his father founded an Armenian-speaking Presbyterian church. Except for a time when his father pastored a church in Detroit, Rushdoony grew up on the family farm in Kingsburg.[5]
Rushdoony attended public schools where he learned English.[6] He continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1938, a teaching credential in 1939 and a M.A. in Education in 1940. He also attended the Pacific School of Religion, a Congregational and Methodist seminary in Berkeley, California, from which he graduated in 1944, the same year he was ordained by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rushdoony then served for eight and a half years as a missionary to the Shoshone and Paiute Indians on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in a remote area of Nevada. In 1953 Rushdoony became pastor of a church in Santa Cruz, California, a small retirement town on the coast.
It was during his mission to the Native Americans that Rushdoony began writing. His first book, ''By What Standard?'' was published in 1959. In the early 1960s he was active in the homeschooling movement, appearing as an expert witness to defend the rights of homeschoolers. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965. That year he founded the Chalcedon Foundation; the monthly ''Chalcedon Report'', which Rushdoony edited, began appearing that October.
Rushdoony had five children with his wife, Dorothy Barbara Ross Rushdoony, who died in 2003. His daughter Sharon is married to Gary North, a Christian Reconstructionist writer and economist. Rushdoony's only son, the Rev. Mark R. Rushdoony, is the current president of the Chalcedon Foundation and editor of the ''Chalcedon Report''. R. J. Rushdoony died in 2001 with his student and financial supporter Howard Ahmanson, Jr. at his bedside.[7]
Rushdoony began his career as a writer in 1958, the same year he left the PCUSA and joined the more conservative Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He began popularizing, albeit densely, the works of Calvinist philosophers Cornelius Van Til and Herman Dooyeweerd into a short survey of contemporary humanism called ''By What Standard?''. Arguing for a Calvinist system of thought, Rushdoony dealt with subjects as broad as epistemology and cognitive metaphysics and as narrow as the psychology of religion and predestination. He would write one more book, ''The One And The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy'', using Van Tillian Presuppositional philosophy to critiquing various aspects of secular humanism as well as many essays and book reviews, published in such venues as the ''Westminster Theological Journal''. Like Van Til, Rushdoony's philosophy was based on the presupposition that the Bible is true.
Rushdoony's next focus was on education, especially on behalf of homeschooling, which he saw as a way to combat the intentionally secular nature of the U.S. public school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in three works: ''Intellectual Schizophrenia'' (a general and concise study of education), ''The Messianic Character of American Education'' (a history and castigation of public education in the U.S.), and ''The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum'' (a parent-oriented pedagogical statement).
Rushdoony then pursued history – of the world, of the United States, and of the church. He famously maintained that Calvinistic Christianity provided the intellectual roots for the American Revolution and had thus always had an influential impact in American history. The American Revolution, according to Rushdoony, was a "conservative counterrevolution" to preserve American liberties from British usurpation and it owed nothing to the Enlightenment. He further argued that the United States Constitution was a secular document in appearance only; it didn't need to establish Christianity as an official religion since the states were already Christian establishments. He would further this study in his works on American ideology and historiography, ''This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History'' and ''The Nature of the American System''.
Rushdoony's most important area of writing, however, was law and politics, as expressed in his small book of popular essays ''Law & Liberty'' and discussed in much greater detail in his three volume, 1894-page magnum opus, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. With a title modeled after Calvin's ''Institutes of the Christian Religion'', Rushdoony's ''Institutes'' was arguably his most influential work, though, due to the work's perceived denial of the Holocaust and defense of segregation[8] and slavery,[9] it did not gain an immediate following. In the work, Rushdoony argued against "inter-religious, inter-racial, and inter-cultural marriages, in that they normally go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish."[10] But his condemnation of inter-racial marriage appears to have been his personal view and not related to the biblical text; it was not shared by other Reconstructionists.[11] The book garnered more attention starting in the 1980s when Francis Schaeffer began espousing many similar ideas .[12] In the book, he proposed that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society and that there should be a Christian theonomy, a concept developed in his colleague Greg Bahnsen's controversial tome ''Theonomy and Christian Ethics,'' which Rushdoony heartily endorsed.
In the ''Institutes'', Rushdoony supported the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one's virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and bearing false witness in a capital case.[13]
Although supporting the separation of church and state at the national level, Rushdoony understood both institutions as under the rule of God, and thus he conceived secularism as posing endless false antitheses, which his massive work addresses in considerable detail. In short, he sought to cast a vision for the reconstruction of society based on Christian principles. Rushdoony's work has been used by Dominion Theology advocates who attempt to implement a Christian theocracy, a government subject to Biblical law, especially the Torah in the United States. Economics, penology, authority, behavioral boundaries and the like would all be governed by biblical principles in Rushdoony's vision, but he also proposed a wide system of freedom, especially in the economic sphere, and claimed Ludwig von Mises as an intellectual mentor; he called himself a Christian libertarian.
Rushdoony was the founder in 1965 of the Chalcedon Foundation and the editor of its monthly magazine, the ''Chalcedon Report''. He also published the ''Journal of Christian Reconstruction'' and was an early board member of the Rutherford Institute, founded in 1982 by John Whitehead. He later received an honorary Doctorate from Valley Christian University for his book, ''The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum''.
Rushdoony was, and remains, a controversial figure, as does the Christian Reconstructionist movement that he founded. Many of Dominionism's critics are, in fact, other Christians. "The main weakness of the Reconstructionists' argument," says one such critic, lies in the fact that
Theologian Meredith G. Kline seconds this critique, maintaining that Reconstructionism makes the mistake of failing to understand the special prophetic role of Biblical Israel, calling it "a delusive and grotesque perversion of the teachings of scripture."[14] Kline's student Lee Irons further argues that "Ironically ... it is the wholesale rejection (not revival) of theocratic principles that is desperately needed today if the church is to be faithful to the task of gospel witness entrusted to her in the present age.... It is only as the church ... puts aside the lust for worldly influence and power - that she will be a positive presence in society."[15]
The evangelical Christian Research Institute asks an even more basic question: are Christians supposed to be taking dominion at all? In the ICR's journal Robert Bowman, Jr. argued that "the Bible never commands Christians to take dominion. A search for such a mandate proves fruitless. The Bible never even hints that this is to be a responsibility of the church between Christ's first and second comings."[16]
★ Moral order establishes society in more than itself; it grounds society in truth and thereby makes possible the health and welfare of society as a whole, and it provides the best possible framework for the liberty and development of man.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 110
★ Dissolve man's self-government, and you make a totalitarian authority over him a social necessity.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 18
★ When man's sinful will is the only source of the law, as it is for humanism, then the law becomes legalized robbery, which is, after all, the simplest and best definition of socialism.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', pps. 91-2
★ The Western liberal pays lips service to a few Christian ideas, holds to a Marxist environmentalism, and an English parliamentarianism: like the mule, he is a hybrid and just as sterile.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 117
★ Nothing is more productive of social chaos than the attempt to create a perfect system.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 122
★ On political infrastructure of a Christian theocracy: "The world is in rebellion against that [Christ's] government. From these rebels and revolutionists, we hear much talk about "peace" [...] and a great deal of hostility to government. But Isaiah tied the two together: "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end". True peace, in other words, is a product of true government. When there is true law and order, then there is also true peace. Abolish law and order, and you abolish peace and create a situation of revolutionary warfare and anarchy. By abandoning Christ as Savior and King, by abandoning His government and peace, we are moving into a world of perpetual warfare. We are engaged in "perpetual warfare for perpetual peace" because we are seeking it without Christ" (Dec. 16, 1967).
★ On Christian unity in evangelistic endeavors: "When we are Christians, to the extent to any degree we are faithful to the gospel, we are bigger than ourselves. And that is why whether they are Arminian, Roman Catholic, or Calvinist, people who are truly serving the Lord are bigger than their own thinking, bigger than their own faith. We transcend ourselves. And that is the glory of the gospel. It enables us to do more than we can do. It is the grace of God working through us. It is not that we teach different gospels; we are trying to teach the same gospel even though at times our emphasis will be a warped one, a limited one, a partial one. All the same, God can use it".
★ In colonial New England the covenantal concept of church and state was applied. Everyone went to church, but only a limited number had voting rights in the church and therefore the state, because there was a coincidence of church membership and citizenship. The others were no less believers, but the belief was that ''only the responsible must be given responsibility''. One faith, one law, and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state, and it has worked towards reducing society to anarchy.
★
★ ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'', p. 100
★ ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'' (3 Vol.)
★ ''By What Standard?: An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til''
★ ''The One And The Many: Studies in The Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy''
★ ''This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History''
★ ''The Nature of the American System''
★ ''The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church''
★ ''Intellectual Schizophrenia: Culture, Crisis, and Education''
★ ''The Messianic Character of American Education''
★ ''Politics of Guilt & Pity''
★ ''Roots of Reconstruction''
★ ''Law & Liberty''
★ ''The Biblical Philosophy of History''
★ ''The Mythology of Science''
★ ''Christianity and the State''
★ ''The Word of Flux''
1. An interview with R. J. Rushdoony. Accessed June 9, 2007.
2. William Edgar. "The passing of R. J. Rushdoony". ''First Things.'' August/September 2001.
3. Gary North. "R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P.". LewRockwell.com. Feb. 10, 2001.
4. Founder's Forward: Born Rich. December 1997.
5. About R.J. Rushdoony. Accessed June 9, 2007.
6. Gary North. "R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P.". ''LewRockwell.com''. Feb. 10, 2001.
7. R. J. Rushdoony. NNDB. Accessed June 8, 2007
8. Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator. Toleration is the excuse under which this levelling is undertaken, but the concept of toleration conceals a radical intolerance. In the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal, and the adherents of other religions as though no differences existed. -- R.J. Rushdoony, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973. p. 294.
9. Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence ... The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. -- R.J. Rushdoony, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973. p. 286, 251.
10. R.J. Rushdoony. ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Craig Press, Nutley, NJ (1973), P. 257.
11. Dominionism (a.k.a. Christian Reconstructionism, Dominion Theology, and Theonomy). ''Religious Tolerance.org''. Accessed June 9, 2007.
12. John Sugg. "A Nation Under God". ''Mother Jones''. December/January 2006.
13. Greg Loren Durand. "Reconstructionism's Commitment to Mosaic Penology". ''Christian Reconstruction and Its Blueprints for Dominion''. Accessed June 10, 20087.
14. Meredith Kline. "Comments on an Old-New Error." ''The Westminster Theological Journal'' 41. Fall 1978.
15. The Reformed Theocrats - A Biblical Theological Response Lee Irons
16. Robert M. Bowman, Jr. "Are Christians Supposed to Take Dominion?". ''Christian Research Institute Journal.'' Fall, 1988, page 31.
★ http://en.calvinism.ru - Theocratic Calvinism, theocracy, theonomy, Biblical law solves problems of western nations, applied reformed theology website located in Russia. English and Russian sections
★ The Chalcedon Foundation
★ Interview with R.J. Rushdoony (RealPlayer streaming video format)
★ R. J. Rushdoony: Champion of Faith and Liberty
★ R. J. Rushdoony - R.I.P.
★ Tribute to the Father of Christian Reconstruction
★ The Reformed Patriarch
★ Rushdoony's Work and Legacy
★ Rousas John Rushdoony (April 25, 1916 — February 8, 2001)
★ Foreword to ''A Comprehensive Faith: A Festchrift for R.J Rushdoony'' (1996) by John Frame
★ "The Vision of R. J. Rushdoony" - a biography by Rushdoony's son
★ A 1976 Review of ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'' by John Frame
'Rousas John Rushdoony' (25 April 1916 – 8 February 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of both Christian Reconstructionism and the modern homeschool movement.[1][2] His prolific writings have exerted considerable influence on the Christian right.[3]
| Contents |
| Early life |
| Intellectual career |
| Early writings |
| Homeschooling |
| History |
| Christian Reconstruction |
| Criticism |
| Quotations |
| Selected works |
| References |
| External links |
Early life
Rushdoony was born in New York City, the son of recently arrived Armenian immigrants. Before his parents fled the Armenian Genocide of 1915, his ancestors had lived in a remote area near Mount Ararat for about 2000 years.[4] Within weeks, his parents moved to Kingsburg, California, where his father founded an Armenian-speaking Presbyterian church. Except for a time when his father pastored a church in Detroit, Rushdoony grew up on the family farm in Kingsburg.[5]
Rushdoony attended public schools where he learned English.[6] He continued his education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1938, a teaching credential in 1939 and a M.A. in Education in 1940. He also attended the Pacific School of Religion, a Congregational and Methodist seminary in Berkeley, California, from which he graduated in 1944, the same year he was ordained by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rushdoony then served for eight and a half years as a missionary to the Shoshone and Paiute Indians on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in a remote area of Nevada. In 1953 Rushdoony became pastor of a church in Santa Cruz, California, a small retirement town on the coast.
It was during his mission to the Native Americans that Rushdoony began writing. His first book, ''By What Standard?'' was published in 1959. In the early 1960s he was active in the homeschooling movement, appearing as an expert witness to defend the rights of homeschoolers. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965. That year he founded the Chalcedon Foundation; the monthly ''Chalcedon Report'', which Rushdoony edited, began appearing that October.
Rushdoony had five children with his wife, Dorothy Barbara Ross Rushdoony, who died in 2003. His daughter Sharon is married to Gary North, a Christian Reconstructionist writer and economist. Rushdoony's only son, the Rev. Mark R. Rushdoony, is the current president of the Chalcedon Foundation and editor of the ''Chalcedon Report''. R. J. Rushdoony died in 2001 with his student and financial supporter Howard Ahmanson, Jr. at his bedside.[7]
Intellectual career
Early writings
Rushdoony began his career as a writer in 1958, the same year he left the PCUSA and joined the more conservative Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He began popularizing, albeit densely, the works of Calvinist philosophers Cornelius Van Til and Herman Dooyeweerd into a short survey of contemporary humanism called ''By What Standard?''. Arguing for a Calvinist system of thought, Rushdoony dealt with subjects as broad as epistemology and cognitive metaphysics and as narrow as the psychology of religion and predestination. He would write one more book, ''The One And The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy'', using Van Tillian Presuppositional philosophy to critiquing various aspects of secular humanism as well as many essays and book reviews, published in such venues as the ''Westminster Theological Journal''. Like Van Til, Rushdoony's philosophy was based on the presupposition that the Bible is true.
Homeschooling
Rushdoony's next focus was on education, especially on behalf of homeschooling, which he saw as a way to combat the intentionally secular nature of the U.S. public school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in three works: ''Intellectual Schizophrenia'' (a general and concise study of education), ''The Messianic Character of American Education'' (a history and castigation of public education in the U.S.), and ''The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum'' (a parent-oriented pedagogical statement).
History
Rushdoony then pursued history – of the world, of the United States, and of the church. He famously maintained that Calvinistic Christianity provided the intellectual roots for the American Revolution and had thus always had an influential impact in American history. The American Revolution, according to Rushdoony, was a "conservative counterrevolution" to preserve American liberties from British usurpation and it owed nothing to the Enlightenment. He further argued that the United States Constitution was a secular document in appearance only; it didn't need to establish Christianity as an official religion since the states were already Christian establishments. He would further this study in his works on American ideology and historiography, ''This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History'' and ''The Nature of the American System''.
Christian Reconstruction
Rushdoony's most important area of writing, however, was law and politics, as expressed in his small book of popular essays ''Law & Liberty'' and discussed in much greater detail in his three volume, 1894-page magnum opus, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. With a title modeled after Calvin's ''Institutes of the Christian Religion'', Rushdoony's ''Institutes'' was arguably his most influential work, though, due to the work's perceived denial of the Holocaust and defense of segregation[8] and slavery,[9] it did not gain an immediate following. In the work, Rushdoony argued against "inter-religious, inter-racial, and inter-cultural marriages, in that they normally go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish."[10] But his condemnation of inter-racial marriage appears to have been his personal view and not related to the biblical text; it was not shared by other Reconstructionists.[11] The book garnered more attention starting in the 1980s when Francis Schaeffer began espousing many similar ideas .[12] In the book, he proposed that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society and that there should be a Christian theonomy, a concept developed in his colleague Greg Bahnsen's controversial tome ''Theonomy and Christian Ethics,'' which Rushdoony heartily endorsed.
In the ''Institutes'', Rushdoony supported the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions. Under such a system, the list of civil crimes which carried a death sentence would include homosexuality, adultery, incest, lying about one's virginity, bestiality, witchcraft, idolatry or apostasy, public blasphemy, false prophesying, kidnapping, rape, and bearing false witness in a capital case.[13]
Although supporting the separation of church and state at the national level, Rushdoony understood both institutions as under the rule of God, and thus he conceived secularism as posing endless false antitheses, which his massive work addresses in considerable detail. In short, he sought to cast a vision for the reconstruction of society based on Christian principles. Rushdoony's work has been used by Dominion Theology advocates who attempt to implement a Christian theocracy, a government subject to Biblical law, especially the Torah in the United States. Economics, penology, authority, behavioral boundaries and the like would all be governed by biblical principles in Rushdoony's vision, but he also proposed a wide system of freedom, especially in the economic sphere, and claimed Ludwig von Mises as an intellectual mentor; he called himself a Christian libertarian.
Rushdoony was the founder in 1965 of the Chalcedon Foundation and the editor of its monthly magazine, the ''Chalcedon Report''. He also published the ''Journal of Christian Reconstruction'' and was an early board member of the Rutherford Institute, founded in 1982 by John Whitehead. He later received an honorary Doctorate from Valley Christian University for his book, ''The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum''.
Criticism
Rushdoony was, and remains, a controversial figure, as does the Christian Reconstructionist movement that he founded. Many of Dominionism's critics are, in fact, other Christians. "The main weakness of the Reconstructionists' argument," says one such critic, lies in the fact that
the nation of Israel was unique in world history as God's specially selected and covenanted people. For them, and for them alone, He legislated directly, adding specific laws and penalties to the already existing moral law (without supplanting it). His purpose for doing this was to keep the Israelites "shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed" (Galatians 3:23). It should be remembered that the children of Israel had just spent four hundred years as residents of a pagan civilization, most of which time they were in bondage there as slaves. With few exceptions, they were themselves pagans at heart, as their constant backsliding into Baal-worship demonstrated, and a severe law-code was necessary to preserve the godly line through which Christ would come into the world.
Theologian Meredith G. Kline seconds this critique, maintaining that Reconstructionism makes the mistake of failing to understand the special prophetic role of Biblical Israel, calling it "a delusive and grotesque perversion of the teachings of scripture."[14] Kline's student Lee Irons further argues that "Ironically ... it is the wholesale rejection (not revival) of theocratic principles that is desperately needed today if the church is to be faithful to the task of gospel witness entrusted to her in the present age.... It is only as the church ... puts aside the lust for worldly influence and power - that she will be a positive presence in society."[15]
The evangelical Christian Research Institute asks an even more basic question: are Christians supposed to be taking dominion at all? In the ICR's journal Robert Bowman, Jr. argued that "the Bible never commands Christians to take dominion. A search for such a mandate proves fruitless. The Bible never even hints that this is to be a responsibility of the church between Christ's first and second comings."[16]
Quotations
★ Moral order establishes society in more than itself; it grounds society in truth and thereby makes possible the health and welfare of society as a whole, and it provides the best possible framework for the liberty and development of man.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 110
★ Dissolve man's self-government, and you make a totalitarian authority over him a social necessity.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 18
★ When man's sinful will is the only source of the law, as it is for humanism, then the law becomes legalized robbery, which is, after all, the simplest and best definition of socialism.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', pps. 91-2
★ The Western liberal pays lips service to a few Christian ideas, holds to a Marxist environmentalism, and an English parliamentarianism: like the mule, he is a hybrid and just as sterile.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 117
★ Nothing is more productive of social chaos than the attempt to create a perfect system.
★
★ ''Law & Liberty'', p. 122
★ On political infrastructure of a Christian theocracy: "The world is in rebellion against that [Christ's] government. From these rebels and revolutionists, we hear much talk about "peace" [...] and a great deal of hostility to government. But Isaiah tied the two together: "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end". True peace, in other words, is a product of true government. When there is true law and order, then there is also true peace. Abolish law and order, and you abolish peace and create a situation of revolutionary warfare and anarchy. By abandoning Christ as Savior and King, by abandoning His government and peace, we are moving into a world of perpetual warfare. We are engaged in "perpetual warfare for perpetual peace" because we are seeking it without Christ" (Dec. 16, 1967).
★ On Christian unity in evangelistic endeavors: "When we are Christians, to the extent to any degree we are faithful to the gospel, we are bigger than ourselves. And that is why whether they are Arminian, Roman Catholic, or Calvinist, people who are truly serving the Lord are bigger than their own thinking, bigger than their own faith. We transcend ourselves. And that is the glory of the gospel. It enables us to do more than we can do. It is the grace of God working through us. It is not that we teach different gospels; we are trying to teach the same gospel even though at times our emphasis will be a warped one, a limited one, a partial one. All the same, God can use it".
★ In colonial New England the covenantal concept of church and state was applied. Everyone went to church, but only a limited number had voting rights in the church and therefore the state, because there was a coincidence of church membership and citizenship. The others were no less believers, but the belief was that ''only the responsible must be given responsibility''. One faith, one law, and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state, and it has worked towards reducing society to anarchy.
★
★ ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'', p. 100
Selected works
★ ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'' (3 Vol.)
★ ''By What Standard?: An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til''
★ ''The One And The Many: Studies in The Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy''
★ ''This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History''
★ ''The Nature of the American System''
★ ''The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church''
★ ''Intellectual Schizophrenia: Culture, Crisis, and Education''
★ ''The Messianic Character of American Education''
★ ''Politics of Guilt & Pity''
★ ''Roots of Reconstruction''
★ ''Law & Liberty''
★ ''The Biblical Philosophy of History''
★ ''The Mythology of Science''
★ ''Christianity and the State''
★ ''The Word of Flux''
References
1. An interview with R. J. Rushdoony. Accessed June 9, 2007.
2. William Edgar. "The passing of R. J. Rushdoony". ''First Things.'' August/September 2001.
3. Gary North. "R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P.". LewRockwell.com. Feb. 10, 2001.
4. Founder's Forward: Born Rich. December 1997.
5. About R.J. Rushdoony. Accessed June 9, 2007.
6. Gary North. "R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P.". ''LewRockwell.com''. Feb. 10, 2001.
7. R. J. Rushdoony. NNDB. Accessed June 8, 2007
8. Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator. Toleration is the excuse under which this levelling is undertaken, but the concept of toleration conceals a radical intolerance. In the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal, and the adherents of other religions as though no differences existed. -- R.J. Rushdoony, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973. p. 294.
9. Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence ... The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. -- R.J. Rushdoony, ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973. p. 286, 251.
10. R.J. Rushdoony. ''The Institutes of Biblical Law''. Craig Press, Nutley, NJ (1973), P. 257.
11. Dominionism (a.k.a. Christian Reconstructionism, Dominion Theology, and Theonomy). ''Religious Tolerance.org''. Accessed June 9, 2007.
12. John Sugg. "A Nation Under God". ''Mother Jones''. December/January 2006.
13. Greg Loren Durand. "Reconstructionism's Commitment to Mosaic Penology". ''Christian Reconstruction and Its Blueprints for Dominion''. Accessed June 10, 20087.
14. Meredith Kline. "Comments on an Old-New Error." ''The Westminster Theological Journal'' 41. Fall 1978.
15. The Reformed Theocrats - A Biblical Theological Response Lee Irons
16. Robert M. Bowman, Jr. "Are Christians Supposed to Take Dominion?". ''Christian Research Institute Journal.'' Fall, 1988, page 31.
External links
★ http://en.calvinism.ru - Theocratic Calvinism, theocracy, theonomy, Biblical law solves problems of western nations, applied reformed theology website located in Russia. English and Russian sections
★ The Chalcedon Foundation
★ Interview with R.J. Rushdoony (RealPlayer streaming video format)
★ R. J. Rushdoony: Champion of Faith and Liberty
★ R. J. Rushdoony - R.I.P.
★ Tribute to the Father of Christian Reconstruction
★ The Reformed Patriarch
★ Rushdoony's Work and Legacy
★ Rousas John Rushdoony (April 25, 1916 — February 8, 2001)
★ Foreword to ''A Comprehensive Faith: A Festchrift for R.J Rushdoony'' (1996) by John Frame
★ "The Vision of R. J. Rushdoony" - a biography by Rushdoony's son
★ A 1976 Review of ''The Institutes of Biblical Law'' by John Frame
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