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| | CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISM, DOMINION THEOLOGY AND THEONOMY |
 | | The primacy of the Hebrew Scriptures, relative to the Christian Scriptures (New Testament). | | | Emphasize the importance of the Hebrew Scriptures vs. the Christian Scriptures. | | | Christian Reconstructionism arose out of conservative Presbyterianism in the early 1970's. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm
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| | Christian Reconstructionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some prominent advocates of Christian Reconstructionism have openly written that according to their understanding, God's law approves of the death penalty not only for murder, but also for active homosexuals, for adulterers, and perhaps even recalcitrant youths (see the List of capital crimes in the bible). | | | The founders of the movement have all been Calvinists, and they believe that their view of the law is a faithful extension of the Reformed Christian view of the continuing validity of Biblical Law in a modern context. | | | Notes on Reconstructionism: Roots of a New "Christian" Inquisition? |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism
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| | Dominionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christians typically interpret this verse as meaning that God gave humankind responsibility over the Earth, but anti-Dominionist critics commonly point to this passage as a paradigm that influences Christian attitudes of Western domination over the Earth and everything in it. | | | In the book, A Christian Manifesto, Schaeffer writes, "There is no New Testament basis for a linking of church and state until Christ, the King returns." Critical writers however, emphasize the similarities and overlapping influence of Schaeffer and the Reconstructionists, on the formation of the Christian Right. | | | For example, similar agendas are advocated by groups such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Unification Church, and conservative Catholics, with whom most Evangelicals deny religious commonality; however, the Christian Right is a political coalition based on common cause shared by otherwise differently motivated groups. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism
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| | What is dominion theology / theonomy / Christian reconstructionism? |
| | Christian Reconstructionism reasons that society will be reconstructed by the Law of God as preached in the Gospel and the Great Commission. | | | Once at home solely within Reformed circles, dominion theology and Christian reconstructionism is now creeping into many Protestant churches and is making a large impact on the beliefs of Charismatic churches in particular. | | | Post-millennial refers to the belief that Christ will return to earth after the thousand year reign of God's kingdom, and covenantalism refers to the belief that biblical history is divided into three major covenants supposedly described in Scripture—of redemption, of works, and of grace. |
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http://www.gotquestions.org/dominion-theology.html
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| | Christian Reconstruction |
| | Christian liberty means that we are free of the ideologies of the right or left, and even free enough to say a human "Yes" or "No" or "Yes and No" to the passions and proposals of one or another when faith and facts warrant it. | | | Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God which we have to hear and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death. | | | Confronted by a "German Christian" reinterpretation of the gospel, Barmen asserted: |
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http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/cr.htm
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| | Christian Reconstructionists |
| | Reconstructionism is a theology that arose out of conservative Presbyterianism (Reformed and Orthodox), which proposes that contemporary application of the laws of Old Testament Israel, or "Biblical Law," is the basis for reconstructing society toward the Kingdom of God on earth. | | | Christian reconstructionists advance this kingdom by the preaching of the gospel in its purity and law in its cogency, and by applying the Biblical Faith in every sphere of life and society. | | | Reconstructionism has adopted "covenantalism," the theological doctrine that Biblical "covenants" exist between God and man, God and nations, God and families, and that they make up the binding, incorporating doctrine that makes sense of everything. |
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http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/reconstruct2.html
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| | Weekly Planet THIS WEEK IN TALK OF THE TOWN |
| | That it was at odds with the great mass of Christian teachings was a matter of little concern for the Reconstructionists, who saw their heady mission as leading the new nation of God, and eventually presiding over all of the world's affairs. | | | Christian Reconstruction and dominion theology aren't new movements in the religious community. | | | His interpretation of separation, however, is a "warning against the establishment of a particular denomination" as the state religion, not limiting Christian activism in the political realm. |
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http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2004-03-25/cover.html
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| | Talk To Action The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy - Part Two |
| | Christians and others who do not accept their theological beliefs would be second-class citizens. | | | Christian Nationalists - They erode pluralism, and we must defend separation of church and state, but also engage in a discussion of the legitimate boundaries when religious beliefs intersect with participation in a secular civil society. | | | If Christian Reconstructionists are a subset of the larger group of dominionists, there must be certain specific characteristics (political beliefs, religious beliefs, personal traits, sexual proclivities -- something) which they possess but the rest of the dominionists do not. |
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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2005/12/5/10810/4239
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| | Moses' Law for Modern Government: |
| | Reconstructionism borrows heavily from the Calvinistic legacy not only in its high view of Scripture, but also in its views of Church-State relations, and the complementarity of law and gospel. | | | Arminian and Calvinist, charismatic and non-charismatic, high Church and low Church traditions are all represented in the broader umbrella of Reconstructionism (often in the form of the "Christian America" movement). | | | They are (1) personal regeneration, (2) the application of biblical law to all areas of life, and (3) the advance of the already-present kingdom in history through the preaching of the gospel and the empowering of the Holy Spirit. |
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http://www.reformed.org/ethics/ligon_duncan_critique.html
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| | Christian Reconstructionism Critiques: " |
| | Christianity is not only for the church; Christianity should pervade the entire culture. | | | The truth of Christianity as a universal, or catholic, Faith gradually atrophied, however, as the churches at Rome (West) and Byzantium (East) gained preeminence. | | | > The Christian Faith is a universal faith. |
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http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/cr/catholic.html
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| | Christian Reconstructionists |
| | Reconstructionist theologian David Barton offered this definition: "The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law." | | | "The Christian Reconstructionist believes the earth and all it's fullness is the Lord's; that every area dominated by sin must be 'reconstructed' in terms of the Bible. | | | In addition to including Rushdoony's "The Difference Between Christian Education and Humanistic Education", the book's forward was written by D. James Kennedy and many of the ideals expressed seem Reconstructionist, however, he does not state specifically that he is a Reconstructionist. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8616/reconstructionists.html
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| | Dominionism |
| | This chief thing that distinguishes them from a lot of the conservative Christians who have been influenced by them is that they are not pessimistic about the possibility of men ushering in the millennial reign of Christ. | | | At its root, Reconstructionism is a militant Biblicism. | | | In many ways, it is a revival of the holy war theology of the Hebrew Bible under the guise of Christianity. |
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http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/mob4/dominionism.htm
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| | What Is Christian Reconstructionism? |
| | Christians are accused of only practicing a 'heart' religion, while Reconstructionists apply the bible to every area of their lives. | | | Although he finds Christian Reconstructionism to be orthodox, he warns of some potential dangers, especially: "More serious is the intermingling of reconstructionists with proponents of the "dominion theology" which is now sweeping the charismatic and Pentecostal churches." Obviously, he didn't do his homework. | | | Christians apply the bible to every area of life, but they understand this to mean something different from what Reconstructionists do. |
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http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/whatis.htm
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Christian Reconstructionism |
| | The more fundamental aspects of Rushdoony's Institutes, as well as Christian Reconstructionism, include John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, a critical work of the Protestant Reformation. | | | Dating back to the "Father of Presuppositionalism" Cornelius Van Til, religious and philosophical thinkers were troubled with the idea of proving faith. | | | The controversy surrounding the Christian Reconstructionist movement can be grouped into three main categories. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ChRecon.html
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| | Americans United: Operation Potomac |
| | Christian Reconstructionists trace their roots to 16th-century French church reformer John Calvin, but their modern spiritual grandfather was Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987), an American theologian and author whose ideas laid the philosophical foundations of Reconstructionism -- but did not necessarily call for full-blown political activism. | | | Then as the church grows and faithfully disciples the converts, Christian citizens and rulers will see their duty to establish a Christian civil government. | | | Citing passages from the Old Testament Books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, many Reconstructionists would institute the death penalty for a number of offenses, among them striking or cursing a parent, adultery, homosexuality, "unchastity," rape of a betrothed virgin, witchcraft, "incorrigible" juvenile delinquency, blasphemy and propagation of "false" religious doctrines. |
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http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5628&abbr=cs_
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| | Theonomy & Christian Reconstructionism |
| | Portions of Reconstructionist Theology have been (perhaps unwittingly) adopted by various church leaders, especially in fundamentalist and Pentacostal congregations. | | | Reconstructionists, on the other hand, are postmillenialists and believe that they will rule over the world before Christ's return. | | | Pat Robertson specifically rejects the label "Reconstructionist," but he has no problem using texts by Rushdoony and North at his Regent University and the Reconstructionists consider him to be one of them, "operationally." |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/2850/Theonomy.html
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| | The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All of Life |
| | Are you ready to defend the Christian faith against other worldviews? | | | If this teaching be not true, St. Paul added, then “we are found false witnesses of God” (v. | | | However, because Christ is risen from the dead, death and sin are broken in their power, and victory becomes the life of the Christian (v. |
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http://www.chalcedon.edu
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| | The Radical Religious Right: Christian Reconstructionism |
| | This article gives an accurate summation of Reconstructionist beliefs, written from the viewpoint of a Reconstructionist. | | | Reconstructionism also holds that the entire Law of the Pentateuch continues as a standard of righteousness even today for Christians, and that Christians must exercise dominion through the power of God's Law over all the Earth before Christ shall come again. | | | Christian Reconstructionism is an extreme form of post-millenial, Calvinistic Protestantism which argues that it is the moral obligation of Christians to reclaim every "worldly" institution for Christ. |
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http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/rrr/recon.html
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| | Christian Reconstructionism - dKosopedia |
| | Christian Reconstructionism is a religious and political movement within Protestant Christianity. | | | Christian Reconstructionism is closely related, perhaps indistinguishable, from Dominionism, and is based on the ideas of Theonomy (the establishment of "God's law" in the civil order) and Dominion Theology. | | | While, Christian Reconstructionism does not seek to establish laws to regulate beliefs, only actions, only those forms in which actions that are contrary to the general princples of their deinfed moral law (e.g., blasphemy, public dissemination of idolatry) are proscribed. |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Christian_Reconstructionism
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| | ToC for Christian Reconstructionism |
| | Chalcedon was established in 1965 to further the spread of CR beliefs by Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony. | | | Quotes from Christian Recosntructionists and Other Members of the Religious Right | | | What Chalcedon Believes (Chalcedon is the preimer Christian Reconstructionist organization.) - without commentary |
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http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/cr/cr_toc.html
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| | BARF People/Organization Profile: Gary North |
| | Institute for Christian Economics, includes a large library of North's works, including those listed above | | | Gary North and the Institute for Christian Economics | | | Christian Reconstruction: What It Is, What It Isn't |
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http://www.barf.org/archive/north_gary
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