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 TRUE LAW HAS A STANDARD - GOD'S STANDARD March 20, 2006
J. Busher (WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA United States)
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
The founding fathers of the United States created a Republic under God based on its Declaration of Independance's "...law of Nature's and Nature's God." And any violation of this Law of Nature and Nature's God by any government it was deemed a right and a burden for the general people to change or dismantle that power being seen as corrupt - against God and thus against the people.
The earnest question today is what is this "Law of Nature and Nature God." Blackstones "Commentary on the Law," tells us 'natures law' is seen in creation and 'nature's God' is revealed law i.e. the Bible. Once we come to see the foundation of our Repubic as biblical then the 'Institutes of Biblical Law' becomes an important resource for us and our nation. Only if our Nation is willing to draw upon the revealed law and its commandments can we live true to our birth right ie. Declaration of Independance (yet understood by all our founding fathers as Independance from tyranny).
Thou shalt not kill steal or covet (and here's why ...) June 13, 2005
Pope is AntiChrist! (The land of the sinner)
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
Rushdoony and his followers are not worried by charges of moral relativism or cultural imperalism. Reconstructionists dont care that their belief would lead to the stoning of theieves or homosexuals BECAUSE they believe that the Bible (i.e. the inerrant word of God) generally and the law books, Genesis to Duteronomy, in particular must be enforced. This is their manifesto. All Christians must read this book - it is an eye opener ...
Masterpiece of "Christian Reconstructionism", for good or for worse March 1, 2010
Clarke H. Morledge (Williamsburg, VA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rushdoony is rejected by many Christians and non-Christians alike as being on the lunatic fringe. There is good reason for this, though it is complicated. As John Frame argues, while rightly challenging in many ways, Rushdoony's work is a fine example of how *not* to engage in theological dialogue. Making accusations of "antinomianism" at every turn is not the best way to draw in your audience. I argue that Rushdoony's detailed insight into ignored aspects of history in the Christian era is fascinating and valuable (hence the four star rating), but the theological lessons to be learned do not always hold together. He makes a convincing case for political libertarianism (a.l.a. Ron Paul), but his theonomic vision is frightful to many fellow libertarians. He writes of the dual dangers of expanding militaristic and socialistic powers of the state, but he unfortunately sees fit to condemn interracial marriage. He masterfully makes sense of many Mosaic texts in a plausible way to the modern Christian, but the architecture of his theological argument is confounding. Are we really "sanctified by the law", as Rushdoony suggests? Surely we are "justified by grace", but juxtaposing that with "sanctification by the law" seems to diminish the Gospel.
Nevertheless, perhaps Rushdoony's critics have not read him closely enough. The man was incredibly well read and incredibly prolific. It took me THREE YEARS to get through _The Institutes of Biblical Law_! This is the best case for theonomy I have yet to read. If you follow him carefully, Rushdoony proposes that Christ's theonomic reign will only come as more and more people come to know Christ. Regeneration ALWAYS precedes civil reform. The bulk of the population in any nation (I've heard Rushdoony elsewhere say at least 80% of the population) needs to confess faith in Christ BEFORE biblical law can be implemented fully in a society. State coercion is NOT in Rushdoony's vision. Well, if that is the case, then those who fear the rise of the "Religious Right' have nothing to fear from the likes of Rushdoony. With less than 70% of Americans going to church and less then half of those claiming to be "born again", I think that the evangelical movement will be preoccupied for many years with evangelism and discipleship before it ever gets to the task of theonomic-based governance.
Rushdoony's whole argument for theonomy is based on both his presuppositionalism; i.e. there is no such thing as philosophical "neutrality," and his postmillenialism; i.e. the world is getting better and better all of the time. Presuppositionalism and postmillenialism are not well-understood nor well-embraced within Evangelicalism. A proper appreciation of Rushdoony will fail without an adequate grasp of these two theological concepts.
With this in mind, Rushdoony fans are faced with some intractable problems. First, Rushdoony rightly presupposes the Word of God to be true, but the sad history of Christian Reconstructionism is that the exposition of the biblical text gets mangled up by its interpreters. The theonomic vision gets lost in a sea of biblical disputation. Gary North, a contributor to this volume and his son-in-law, has a falling out with Rushdoony over biblical interpretation. Others have parted ways with Rushdoony and North, too. It appears that much of the reason why John Milton wrote Paradise Lost was one way of coming to grips with the futility of trying to get a bunch of conflicting religious groups together to build a theonomically-governed society in Oliver Cromwell's England.
Secondly, most politically-minded evangelicals do not share the rosy optimism of Rushdoony's postmillenialism. Having the patience to rebuild society by Christian witness and example is not always palatable to those more dispensationally-minded Christians who fear that Christianity is being attacked day-by-day in America. With such a pessimistic mood, it is tempting to use theonomic language to justify grabbing the reigns of political power. In other words, we need to appreciate the whole of Rushdoony's argument, less we misuse him.
Insightful and comprehensive December 9, 2000
15 out of 27 found this review helpful
I didn't agree with everything in these books, but Rushdoony certainly opened my eyes to trains of thought I hadn't considered before.God never changes, neither do His standards of righteousness. If you really want to learn how God's Laws apply today, these are essential books.
 Great book! June 6, 2009
C. Zimmerman (USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really liked this book.. I agree with a lot of it. I just thought it was funny how the author is so adamant about sticking to the law... Yet the Sabbath was no big deal. LOL! That really made me value the book less, hence the 3 stars. He obviously has a lot of knowledge.. But he's not perfect (no one is). If you understand that, then you can get a lot out of this book. It's interesting, and has a lot of additional resources and information in it.. So I gave it 3 stars.. It would be 5 stars if he wasn't being such a hypocrite about the Sabbath... But that's just my personal opinion, and we all have those.
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