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 Rousas John Rushdoony
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) was the major intellectual figure of the Christian Reconstructionist Christian Reconstructionism quick summary:
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 FT August/September 2001: The Passing of R. J. Rushdoony
Rushdoony’s most extensive and thorough treatment of the law can be found in his Institutes of Biblical Law, a massive, two—volume work that includes an exhaustive study of the Ten Commandments followed by detailed treatments of taxation, government, virtue, oaths, penal sanctions, property, and nearly every domain of jurisprudence.
Rousas John Rushdoony died on February 8 of this year, at the age of eighty—four.
Rushdoony was often called upon as an expert witness to defend the rights of home—school advocates against their detractors.
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 Religious Movements Homepage: Christian Reconstructionism
Cornelius Van Til is widely recognized as the founder of the group's religious and social theories; Rousas John Rushdoony is acknowledged as the intellectual leader of the group's social and political agenda.
Brief History: In 1973, scholar and theoretician, Rousas John Rushdoony published an 800 page iteration of the Ten Commandments called Institutes of Biblical Law which justifies the Christian Reconstructionist's views of the "Biblical Law." Rushdoony was the student of the "Father of Presuppositionalism," Cornelius Van Til, who taught theology at Princeton University.
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.
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 Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony - HyeForum
Rushdoony knew that America had been great, because she had been godly, and it was perhaps his most enduring contribution that his life was spent understanding where we went wrong as a culture, and what we had to do to get back on track.
Rushdoony's writings are the source of many of the core ideas of the New Christian Right, a voting bloc whose unforeseen arrival in American politics in 1980 caught the media by surprise.
Rushdoony used to be a popular speaker at Reformed Seminaries in the 70's, until certain followers poisoned the well with their acerbic attacks, and caustic comments, thus giving the entire movement he founded a bad name.
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 Talk:Rousas John Rushdoony - TheBestLinks.com - ...
While Rushdoony is correct that the Founders were greatly influenced by Christian ideas and even that some of them were practicing Christians, the thought that somehow that most or many of them were supporters of any kind of "Christian theocracy" being the form of government for the United States is just flat wrong.
Rushdoony was correct in stating that the First Amendment was intitally intended to apply only at the federal level.
Their concept of religious diversity was undoubtedly limited for the most part to the Judeao-Christian tradition and they presupposed what would now perhaps be called "Protestant morality" as a norm, but the idea that they saw something like seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts as the American ideal is ahistorical, and basically wrong.
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 By: Maureen O'Brien To: Maureen O'Brien Re: Xian Reconstructionism Grace Under Pressure Th
Rushdoony creates for his followers and, more importantly for most "born again" Christians who believe in the literal word of the Bible, the image of a small band of racially, morally and culturally embattled true believers.
Rushdoony is a prolific author and has written more than 30 books (in longhand, with a pen he regularly dips into an inkpot).
Rushdoony's father was a minister and a highly regarded intellectual, a professor.
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 R J Rushdoony
Rousas John rushdoony is president and founder of Chalcedon Foundation, an educational organization dedicated to Christian reconstruction of every area of life and thought.
Rushdoony illustrates at length that Christian doctrine is not something academic or simply for church.
A history of public education in America by an author who is a theologian, as well as a scholar in the field of education.
www.kenanderson.net /store/bible/r_j_rushdoony.html   (365 words)

  
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He is survived by his wife Dorothy Rushdoony and five children: Rebecca Rouse and Joanna Manesajian of Angels Camp, California; Sharon North of Winslow, Arkansas; Martha Coie of Downey, California; and Mark Rushdoony of Vallecito, California; by eighteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; and by his brother, Haig Rushdoony, of Danville, California, a Christian missionary.
Rushdoony, often considered the father of the modern Christian and home schooling movement, was a noted theologian and scholar who wrote scores of books on topics as diverse as theology, philosophy, law, economics, politics, science, history and education.
Rushdoony was born in New York City of Armenian immigrants to the United States and preserved a family legacy of Christian ministers going back to the fourth century.
www.banneroftruth.org /pages/news/2001/02/jr_rushdoony.php   (304 words)

  
 Christian Times Commentary—Rousas John Rushdoony, 1916-2001
The death on Feb. 6 of Dr. Rousas John Rushdoony was not sufficiently covered by either the secular or the Christian media and this indicates a sad lack of understanding of the immense contributions made by this high intellectual.
Rushdoony was the inspiration of Samuel Blumenfeld, the leading expositor of phonics and one of the foremost champions of home-schooling.
Rushdoony insisted that Christian doctrine governs all areas of knowledge and unites all philosophy of science and history.
www.christianexaminer.com /Opinions/Com_July01_2.html   (572 words)

  
 Jesus Politics: Rousas John Rushdoony
RJ Rushdoony himself is an adulterer along with his wife.
Rushdoony was suspected of financing Armenian terrorists who were bombing Turkish embassies during the 1970's.
Mr Rushdoony forced his first wife to be committed to Agnew State Hospital (by Dr Rappaport) so that he could divorce her.
jesuspolitics.typepad.com /jesus_politics/2005/05/rousas_john_rus.html   (309 words)

  
 Archive March 12, 2001 Dr. Rushdoony and phonics
Rushdoony would have enjoyed hearing my story of the visit to the school in the valley.
Rushdoony had read the book and had praised it highly, and thus it was quite a thrill for me to become acquainted with the world's leading Calvinist theologian.
Rushdoony also was impressed with the work I had done on reading instruction by intensive phonics.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0301rushdoony.htm   (1405 words)

  
 FREEDOM WRITER: Father of Christian Reconstruction speaks
In an interview with the quarterly publication, Contra Mundum, Rushdoony also revealed that the actor and former talk show host, Morton Downey Jr., is a graduate of the former Valley Christian University.
Rushdoony used to be affiliated with the school, which was put out of business by California's state accreditation committee.
While supporters of church-state separation have ardently opposed the political agenda of the Reconstructionists, Rushdoony said in an interview that his greatest adversaries are Christians.
www.publiceye.org /ifas/fw/9903/rushdoony.html   (193 words)

  
 FREEDOM WRITER : Rushdoony dead
Vallecito, California — Rousas John Rushdoony, the "father of Christian Reconstructionism," and the founder of Christian home-schooling movement, died of prostate cancer on February 8 at the age of 84.
Rushdoony taught that every aspect of society should be based upon Biblical law, which includes death by stoning for practicing homosexuals.
Rushdoony also founded the Chalcedon Institute and penned, in longhand, many books, including the influential The Institutes of Biblical Law.
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 Dominionism
Some, like John Whitehead who heads the Rutherford Institute and was a prominent advisor to George W. Bush during the legal battles in Florida after the last presidential election, acknowledged Rushdoony’s influence in their early writings, but have found it necessary to distance themselves from him as they acquired positions of public influence.
His magnum opus, published in 1973, is an 800 page tome patterned after Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion that Rushdoony entitled The Institutes of Biblical Law.
Openly identifying with Rushdoony and the Reconstructionist movement is problematic for people in the public eye because Rushdoony was an adamant opponent of the First Amendment to the constitution.
www.mainstreambaptists.org /mob4/dominionism.htm   (1305 words)

  
 SCCCS: The Southern California Center for Christian Studies
That was the impact R.J. Rushdoony had on my life, by the grace of God, and I know I am not alone.
Rushdoony was more of an exegete than Van Til, but even in his magnum opus, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Rushdoony’s metier was the theological reflection and interdisciplinary application mentioned above.
During that same time period, Dr. Rushdoony was preaching every Sunday morning in Westwood, near the campus of UCLA (actually, in the chapel of the cemetery where Marilyn Monroe is entombed, if that curiosity matters to anyone).
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Both Rushdoony and Bahnsen are now deceased, but their work is continued by The Chalcedon Foundation in Vallecito, California, The Southern California Center for Christian Studies in Placentia, California, and The Bahnsen Theological Seminary, which offers theological degrees through its correspondence courses.
John Maphet's assessment was accurate: "The worst misunderstandings and even misrepresentations of theonomy have come from dispensational circles....
The Christian homeschool movement has also proven to be fertile soil for the growth of Reconstructionist ideas and Rushdoony is often credited with being the “Moses” who led the exodus of Christian children from the public school system.
www.crownrights.com /reconstruction/introduction.htm   (2614 words)

  
 CSSHS Archives - v15n1p03.htm
As Dr. Rushdoony points out at the conclusion of his article, "Only a full-orbed and intelligent orthodoxy, stressing the sovereign and triune God, the doctrine of creation, and the sovereign grace of God in salvation, can do justice to the fact of power from ahove.
Rushdoony also correctly stated that Satanism is not new but rather has an ugly history, as shown in scattered examples from past and present.
Rushdoony ends his magnificent article by warning that only full submission to the sovereign, triune God of biblical creation and His Christ can prevail in this battle of the ages.
www.creationism.org /csshs/v15n1p03.htm   (4997 words)

  
 Hate & Rousas John Rushdoony
Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers' views all wrong: They didn't intend to put drunkards to death.
Among Reconstrictionism's highlights, the article cited support for laws "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards." Mr.
Believes that Christians must "take dominion" (assume power by force) as necessary to the survival of Christianity.
home.insight.rr.com /snookems/queer/Origins/rushdoony.html   (102 words)

  
 Christian Century: People - Madalyn Murray O'Hair; appointment, Rabbi David Rosen; Rousas John Rushdoony, obituary - Brief Article - Obituary
* Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, a prolific author-advocate of Christian theocracy, died February 8 of prostate cancer in Vallecito, California.
Rushdoony was preeminent in the Christian Reconstructionist movement that challenged leaders of the Religious Right, often calling on them to consider such extreme stances as advocating the execution of homosexuals.
The AJC may also named a U.S.-based interreligious director.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_12_118/ai_73827722   (333 words)

  
 The US Civil War as a Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South
Thus, it comprised a marginal body of literature until Southern Agrarian Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963), Christian Reconstructionist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) and Presbyterian leader C. Gregg Singer (1910–1999) revived interest in these writings after World War II.
By the end of the 1970s, therefore, Sprinkle, Rushdoony and others had republished and reinterpreted the historical record and, based on the evidence of a few atypical nineteenth-century texts, claimed the 1861–1865 Confederate army to be populated by theologically driven Christian Reconstructionists fighting to preserve their orthodox Christian nation against heretical Union troops.
Rushdoony argued that the early American Republic was a decentralized Protestant feudal system and an orthodox Christian nation that was destroyed by the Civil War (Nature 4–6).
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 Rousas John Rushdoony Dead at 84
Rousas John Rushdoony, founder and long-time President and Chairman of the Board of the Chalcedon Foundation, died February 8 at his home in Vallecito, CA.
Rushdoony was born in New York City on April 25, 1916, of Armenian immigrants to the United States.
Rushdoony is considered by some to be the father of the modern Christian and home schooling movement.
www2.pcanews.com /news/stories/story627.html   (365 words)

  
 BIBLESOFT Online.com
Rousas John Rushdoony examines modern philosophy's many attempts to explain man and his thought process apart from God, his Revelation, or man's sin.
This book continues the first volume, dissecting and colorfully explaining the main intellectual streams of the nineteenth century.
Secular man wants to use the things of creation while denying their Creator.
www.biblesoftonline.com /html_asp/eshop/10Browse.asp?Category=Books:Philosophy   (197 words)

  
 The Origins of Hate
Rousas John Rushdoony and the Rutherford Institute, the Chalcedon Institute, and the Institute for Christian Economics
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 Artisan Publishers The Institutes of Biblical Law
Rushdoony firmly believes If Christianity is ever to become strong again in America, it will be necessary for its leaders to change their convictions regarding the laws of God.
Rushdoony, on the other hand, insists there is no warrant whatsoever in Scripture for antinomianism.
Rushdoony expands on his view of the law still-in-effect as follows:
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 Christian Perspective on Just War -NRA
Rushdoony reminds us that peace should not be secured at the price of justice.
Additionally, Jesus, John the Baptist, and Peter did not call soldiers who believed in God to leave their profession of arms (
The principle that war should be a last resort does not mean that we are required to negotiate a base peace that leaves aggression and tyranny unopposed.
www.natreformassn.org /statesman/03/justwar.html   (5427 words)

  
 American History to 1865 - Exodus Provisions
For this task Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony, founder of the Chalcedon foundation and a noted Christian theologian and scholar, was eminently qualified.
Though this series does not extend beyond 1865 (leaving the listener wanting more), Rev. Rushdoony points out that the Civil War was a watershed in American History, and was the beginning of secular attempts to rewrite history.
Of particular interest are the extensive discussions of the legal issues behind the American War for Independence, an examination of the observations of de Tocqueville, monetary policies, and the development of American culture by free men in an era of small government.
www.exodusbooks.com /details.asp?ExID=4986   (280 words)

  
 DOK eulogizes Rushdoony
In a March 10, 2001 editorial entitled “Scholar, Pastor, Friend” the Daily Oklahoman eulogized Rousas John Rushdoony as “A man of rare grace.
Rushdoony founded the rapidly growing Christian Reconstructionist movement that views democracy as heresy and promotes the establishment of a Christian theocracy in America.
Rushdoony and his followers oppose democracy and religious liberty because,
www.auok.org /paper_eulogizing.htm   (322 words)

  
 The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All Life
John E. Stoos is a political consultant living in Sacramento, California with his wife Linda.
Perhaps the better question might be to ask why there are no Christians in the medical field who are refusing to recommend students who hold to the "Hegalian utilitarianism" that Dr. Alexander warned us about back in 1949.
The winners of the FOCus on Dominion Contest have been announced; read the winning essays.
www.restoringourheritage.com /articles/nej_medicalseduction.htm   (976 words)

  
 Theft: Commentary and Cases of Conscience. A Listing Excerpted From THE INSTITUTES OF BIBLICAL LAW by Rousas John Rushdoony, 1973 edition
It is probably in allusion to this passage that John the Baptist warned the soldiers who came to him: "And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely: and be content with your wage" (Luke iii.
For if Christ be taken away, not only are we estranged from God, but we incessantly carry on open war with him, which is justly thrown back on our own heads; and the consequence is, that everything in the world is in disorder.
For sin in itself, man must die, rather than be forgiven; we die in Christ as sinners who live in terms of the principle of sin, and we arise in Him as a new creation.
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 Footnotes
Rousas John Rushdoony, 'Baptism and Citizenship,' Chalcedon Position Paper No. 37 (Vallecito, Ca.: Chalcedon, n.d.), p.
John Peter Lange, Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960), IX, 126-27; The Interpreter's Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, 1956), VIII, 505.
John Wesley, "A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Conyers Middleton," The Works of John Wesley, 3rd.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/pentecostal/New-Foot.htm   (2116 words)

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