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The Christian Century
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Rushdoony saw the reconstructionist goal as simple: Christians who believed in Christ’s A power orientation that functions to maintain the relative power of some of the population, generally organized around race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or wealth. Learn more were compelled to “reconstruct” American society based on Old Testament ideals, turning ancient Near Eastern legal codes into policy. Rushdoony believed statism to be a ‘false religion’ that dueled with the rule of God on Earth. The A neutral term used to describe someone or something, such as in law, as non-religious in character. Learn more state was a religion against God. He wrote in his 1973 magnum opus Institutes of Biblical Law: ‘All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.’ Unlike Graham and Henry, Rushdoony sought to impose a top-down ethic, led by Van Til’s epistemology.”

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