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Michael J. McVicar, Christian Reconstruction: R.J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2015, xiii + 309 pp. ISBN 9781469622743. US $ 34.95. With the rise of the modern Religious Right, historians, journalists, and others have sought to understand the movement’s roots as well as its goals. Some have seen lurking in the shadows of Christian political activism the theology of Christian Reconstruction. Too often eager scholars and journalist have engaged in ridiculous hyper-conspiratorial thinking, perpetuating the idea that Reconstructionists are orchestrating a massive movement to overthrow the American separation of church and state. Anyone who shares goals similar to Reconstructionists is immediately associated with Reconstructionism. Anyone who wants to see laws reflect their moral views is equated with those who call for the stoning of gays and lesbians. Part of the reason for the widespread ignorance of Reconstruction is that we have lacked a really definitive study of the movement. Until now. Michael McVicar has written the first book to take seriously the Christian Reconstruction movement and one of its primary architects R.J. Rushdoony. Reconstructionists posit “a radical reordering of the relationship between human beings and the Christian God.” The movement,
Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2015
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