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	Christian Reconstructionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian Reconstructionism was originally formulated as a practical expression of Postmillennial Christian Eschatology, though the distinctive tenets of the school of thought (generally referred to as Theonomic Ethics) are purported to be compatible with other eschatological viewpoints within conservative Christianity.
		The social structure advocated by Christian Reconstructionism would have the clergy, laity and government, individually and corporately, to be in ultimate submission to the moral principles of the Bible, including the Old Testament, while retaining their separate scopes of authority and roles in society as designated in the Old Testament.
		They observe that Christian Reconstructionism would entail abandoning the historical interpretation of the principle of separation of religion and government as promoted by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism (1792 words)

	Reconstructionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian Reconstructionism is a relatively recent term, appearing after the social changes of the 1960s.
		It calls for Christians to seek to pervade all areas of life with their faith, including civil government, and envisions the private and civil enforcement of the general principles of Old Testament and New Testament moral law, resulting in a Christian theocracy.
		Polytheistic Reconstructionism, or alternately, "pagan reconstructionism", is a branch of present-day paganism where emphasis is laid on cultural specificity and scholarly research of ancient sources in order to worship the gods in an authentic and relevant manner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reconstructionism (225 words)

	Pennsylvania Alliance for Democracy Money, Power & Radical Right
		Reconstructionism is the common foundation on which many religious political extremist organizations base their mission and activities.
		Reconstructionism is rooted in dominion theology, which is based on the belief that Christians are mandated by God to control - have dominion over - the earth.
		Reconstructionism holds that Christians have a biblical mandate to reconstruct the kingdom of God here on earth, and it is this tenet which is in large part responsible for the Christian Right's drive to dominate electoral politics as a means of controlling society.
	www.padnet.org /mprr2-3.html (3660 words)

	PublicEye.org - Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence - Part 2
		Reconstructionism's decentralist ideas have led to the creation of a network of churches, across a number of denominations, all building for the Kingdom.
		Grimstead can't help acknowledging the significance of Reconstructionism to the Christian Right: "These men were rethinking the church's mission to the world and how to apply a Christian worldview to every area of life and thought 10 to 20 years before most of the rest of us had yet awakened from our slumbers.
		While much of Reconstructionism, as one observer put it, "dies the death of a thousand qualifications," the commitment to dominion is the theological principle that serves as the uniting force of Christian Right extremism, while people debate the particulars.
	www.publiceye.org /magazine/v08n1/chrisre2.html (2012 words)

	Preterism & Reconstructionism - TheologyWeb Campus
		Reconstructionism is a reformed perspective of Biblical ethics combined with an optimistic eschatology.
		Preterism is not essential to Reconstructionism, and it is a mistake to argue that it is. " p.
		Non-recon preterists have been mostly silent on reconstructionism, since it is not an area that is relevant to their studies on fulfilled prophecy of A.D. But they are very appreciative of Reconstructionist writers who have written and promoted preterism such as David Chilton and Kenneth Gentry and Gary North and Gary DeMar.
	www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5497 (855 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Truth About Reconstructionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		...The problem to which Reconstructionism addresses itself began with the emancipation of the Jews from ghetto conditions and their incorporation as citizens into the body politic of the various national states in which they lived...
		...Reconstructionism stresses all the three elements in the life of the Jewish people, and not merely nationhood and civilization, as Dr...
		...Reconstructionism would have the community councils, the community centers, synagogue defense organizations, social service agencies as well as congregations and unions of congregations, all help the Jew get and make the most out of his heritage...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V1I2P56-1.htm (6165 words)

	Christian Reconstructionism vs. Biblical Dominion
		The Knights of Reconstructionism may gather their carnal-minded soldiers to drive the humanist infidels from the Ivy League Holy Land, but the true Christians will understand that this is not God's way to dominion.
		This goal of so-called Christian Reconstructionism is yet another manifestation of the lie prevalent in the false Evangelical churches, that man can bring glory to God anytime he uses his God-given abilities in any endeavor.
		The disciples of Reconstructionism, as is the case throughout Evangelicalism, pursue an ungodly form of unity which sets aside much truth.
	www.freewebs.com /christianity-vs-evangelicalism/christian-reconstructionism-vs-biblical-dominion.htm (2700 words)

	"Moses' Law for Modern Government" by J. Ligon Duncan III
		Third, Christian Reconstructionism is determined to expose what it calls “the myth of neutrality.” Following the presuppositional epistemology of Cornelius Van Til, the reconstructionists argue that no one can approach a field of knowledge neutrally, objectively, or a-religiously.
		When one speaks of the philosophical and sociological origins of Reconstructionism, one may give the impression that a covert argument is being manufactured against the claims of the Reconstructionist movement to be biblical in its foundation.
		Theologically, Christian Reconstructionism may also be viewed as a reaction (and in the author’s opinion, a well-meaning, but misguided, overreaction) to four prevalent tendencies in American Evangelicalism, and to what most traditional Christians would regard as general Western social decadence.
	www.the-highway.com /recon_Duncan.html (6910 words)

	Scientific research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The reason for choosing these countries is the largest popularity of Reconstructionism there and the fact that the Anglo-American culture is the most influential one in the world.
		Investigation and understanding the philosophy of the phenomenon of multi-religiosity as well as examining the problem of tolerance in Reconstructionism may be used as an introduction to the research on the development of better didactic methods of children's preparation to a life in a pluralistic society.
		The examination of the linguistic aspect of Reconstructionism (possible revival of extinct languages) is in first place intented to determine which extinct languages are being used by Reconstructionists and what are their methods of createting "rivived forms" of those languages (solution of the problem of missing vocabulary that would refer to modern contexts).
	www.geocities.com /botev_r/research.html (1080 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Reconstructionist Judaism
		Reconstructionism, the brainchild of the great twentieth century Jewish philosopher Mordecai Kaplan, was not originally designed to be a denomination.
		As a “civilization” it was constantly evolving, and it was the goal of Jewish thinkers at any given time to interpret Judaism in the light of contemporary life and thought without abandoning its traditional values.
		The beginning of Reconstructionism can be dated to 1922, when Kaplan founded the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a synagogue in New York City.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/MoreEmergence/Reconstructionism.htm (1170 words)

	Moses' Law for Modern Government:
		That is, Reconstructionism views all legitimate law as divine positive law (or an application thereof) and thus rejects natural law and social contract theory.
		For instance, 1) it is apparent that Reconstructionism is sub-category of Calvinism.
		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.
	www.reformed.org /ethics/ligon_duncan_critique.html (6902 words)

	Reconstructionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The computational approach to cognitive neuroscience becomes critically important in reconstructionism: it is very difficult to use verbal arguments to reconstruct human cognition (or any other complex phenomenon) from the action of a large number of interacting components.
		The importance of reconstructionism is often overlooked in all areas of science, not just cognitive neuroscience, and the process has really only recently become feasible with the advent of relatively affordable fast computers.
		Figure: Illustration of the importance of reconstructionism -- it is not enough to say that the system is composed of components (e.g., two gears as in a), one must also show how these components interact to produce overall behaviors.
	psych.colorado.edu /~oreilly/eccn/node8.html (551 words)

	Christian Reconstructionism - religious cults, sects and movements
		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.
		Reconstructionism argues that the Bible is to be the governing text for all areas of life--such as government, education, law, and the arts, not merely ''social'' or ''moral'' issues like pornography, homosexuality, and abortion.
		The original and defining text of Reconstructionism is Institutes of Biblical Law, published in 1973 by Rousas John Rushdoony--an 800-page explanation of the Ten Commandments, the Biblical ''case law'' that derives from them, and their application today.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /r10.html (1134 words)

	The Radical Religious Right: Christian Reconstructionism
		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.
		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.
		Reconstructionism can be traced to the Cobb County, Georgia ordinance stating that homosexuality is against community standards.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/www/rrr/recon.html (316 words)

	Theonomy and Christian reconstructionism
		In recent years, terms like theonomy and Christian reconstructionism are being used and discussed in Reformed and Presbyterian circles.
		Christian reconstructionism takes the basic hermeneutical approach of theonomy to Scripture and starts to apply it in a concrete way in order to transform or reconstruct every area of life in this world to conform to the law of God.
		Reconstructionism also is postmillennial in that it optimistically believes in a world-wide dominion of Christ where the kingdom of
	spindleworks.com /library/aasman/theonomy.htm (7248 words)

	Notes on Reconstructionism
		Generally, Reconstructionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern by imposing their interpretation of "Biblical Law." Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of its manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and public schools.
		Reconstructionism asserts that at creation God issued to Adam a cultural or dominion mandate to subdue the earth on behalf of God and thereby establish the Kingdom of God on earth (Gen. 1:28).
		Reconstructionism accuses Premillennialism of defeatism (seeing no victorious end to history), of regarding the history of the Church as irrelevant, of draining believers of the motivation to develop the Kingdom of God on earth, and of being a product of paganism.
	www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/cor/notes_on.htm (5490 words)

	Constructing Reconstructionism: Theology Expressed in Architecture at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue
		In the late 1920s, although Reconstructionism was still not an official denomination, Reconstructionist “chapters” opened up in many cities across the United States, and Reconstructionist magazine was launched in 1934-35.
		Of particular interest in the history of Reconstructionism is the role of Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, Kaplan’s friend, student, and heir-apparent in the movement.
		The synagogue-center was Kaplan’s innovation, but he would certainly approve of those who wish to push past his idea of the synagogue as a cultural center into an exploration of the synagogue as a community.
	www.adatshalom.net /constructing.html (6236 words)

	West End Synagogue: What is Reconstructionism?
		Reconstructionism is an approach to Jewish living for the individual, the family, and the community.
		Based on the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983) and his followers, Reconstructionism fosters the growth of a fully participatory Jewish community and articulates a vision of Jewish life which attracts those in search of a serious and maximalist approach to liberal Judaism.
		Reconstructionists believe that it is the task of each generation of Jews both to preserve our traditions and to engage in ongoing reinterpretation of them so that they remain vibrant and meaningful for generations yet to come.
	www.westendsynagogue.org /reconstructionism.shtml (263 words)

	The Royal Race of the Redeemed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Except for perhaps Christian Identity, Christian Reconstructionism has to be one of the worse perversions of Christianity ever devised.
		Christian Reconstructionism is a belief that society, particularly in the United States, has seriously degenerated morally and religiously and must be totally rebuilt to Biblical standards.
		Christian Reconstructionism is not Christian; it's a cult and needs to be treated as one.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/fundienazis/royal_race.htm (2031 words)

	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.
		The principal goal, then, of dominion theology and Christian reconstructionism is political and religious dominion of the world through the implementation of the moral laws, and subsequent punishments, of the Old Testament (the sacrificial and ceremonial laws having been fulfilled in the New Testament).
		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.
	www.gotquestions.org /dominion-theology.html (568 words)

	Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence
		Reconstructionism has expanded from the works of a small group of scholars to inform a wide swath of conservative Christian thought and action.
		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.
		An important vehicle for achieving this goal is the ideology of Christian Reconstructionism or its stripped-down root, dominionism, which at once deepens the political motivation of their constituency and widens that constituency by systematically mobilizing a network of churches, many of which were politically uninvolved until the early 1990s.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5722.htm (7696 words)

	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.
		Christian Reconstructionism's history begins in the late 19th Century in the Netherlands.
		In summary, the Creed of Reconstructionism drafted by Andrew Sandlin is a concise capitulation of five essential characteristics of a member: Calvinist, Theonomist, Presuppositionalist, Postmillennialist, Dominionist.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/ChRecon.html (2686 words)

	Reconstructionism
		The starting point of Reconstructionism is our quest to understand the historical and spiritual experience of the Jewish people.
		Unlike Orthodoxy, Reconstructionism does not view Judaism as a total and immutable revelation from God to Moses at Sinai that is essentially unchanged through all generations.
		Reconstructionism differs from Reform Judaism, however, concerning how much of the tradition needs to be preserved.
	www.mvakshederekh.org /reconstruct (2541 words)

	Reconstructionism
		The computational approach to cognitive neuroscience becomes critically important in reconstructionism: it is very difficult to use verbal arguments to reconstruct human cognition (or any other complex phenomenon) from the action of a large number of interacting components.
		Figure 1.1 shows a simple illustration of the importance of reconstructionism in understanding how systems behave.
		Here, it is not sufficient to say that the system is composed of two components (the two gears shown in panel a).
	psych.colorado.edu /~oreilly/cecn/node10.html (554 words)

	Dominionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At its root, Reconstructionism is a militant Biblicism.
		The chief difference being that Reconstructionists believe they have a mandate to claim more than the land of Palestine, they believe they are commanded to conquer the entire world and exercise “dominion” over all its peoples.
		There is no way to know for certain how many of the candidates he endorses are full-fledged Reconstructionists, but it stretches the realm of credulity to believe that none of them share his theological viewpoints.
	www.mainstreambaptists.org /dominionism.htm (1291 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I feel that I have to disclaim the latter because the followers of Reconstructionism are often taught to accuse their critics of Dispensationalism, or at least of having been influenced by Dispensational hermeneutics.
		For example, both systems either obscure or openly deny the biblical identification of Christ’s Kingdom as the Church and both expect a future earthly dominion for God’s covenant people, although they differ in their identification of who those people are and when that dominion will commence.
		The dictionary definition of a "movement" is "the activities of a group of people to achieve a specific goal." Even though the "group of people" involved in Reconstructionism come from varying ecclesiastical backgrounds, they all are working "to achieve a specific goal": the reconstruction of modern society in terms of Old Testament law.
	www.crownrights.com /reconstruction/introduction.htm (2614 words)

	Artblog.net - reconstructionism
		Ten years ago as a lowly undergrad painter I got all up in the faces of the Pomo theory-hounds at my school, calling my work "Reconstruction, not Deconstruction", which also references an REM album, and, in the South (where my school was), some particular historical meanings.
		I think the idea for the choice of the word "reconstructionism" is totally on, but it seems like there ought to be a slightly better word for it.
		as franklin had commented, perhapes reconstructionism (or maybe reconstructuralism) could be related to a simple greyscale, where each value transists into a gradual increase or decrease of incremental change based on the idea of progression and succession.
	www.artblog.net /index.php?name=2005-01-20-06-37-recon (8828 words)

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