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Building God's Kingdom - Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Building God's Kingdom - Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American
evangelical Christianity, has stood an intellectual movement known
as Christian Reconstructionism. The movement was founded by
theologian, philosopher, and historian Rousas John Rushdoony, whose
near-2000-page tome The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) provides
its foundation. Reconstructionists believe that the Bible provides
a coherent, internally consistent, and all-encompassing worldview,
and they seek to remake the entirety of society-church, state,
family, economy-along biblical lines. They are strongly opposed to
democracy and believe that the Constitution should be replaced by
Old Testament law. And they carry their convictions to their
logical conclusion, arguing, for example, for the restoration of
slavery and for the imposition of the death penalty on homosexuals,
adulterers, and Sabbath-breakers. In this fascinating book, Julie
Ingersoll draws on years of research, Reconstructionist
publications, and interviews with Reconstructionists themselves to
paint the most complete portrait of the movement yet published. She
shows how the Reconstructionists' world makes sense to them, in
terms of their own framework. And she demonstrates the movement's
influence on everything from homeschooling to some of the more
mainstream elements of the Christian Right.
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