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Christian reconstruction : R.J. Rushdoony and American religious conservatism / Michael J. McVicar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Edition: 1 [edition]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781469622767
  • 1469622769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christian reconstruction.DDC classification:
  • 230/.046 23
LOC classification:
  • BT82.25 .M38 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Children of Moloch: Christian Reconstruction, the State, and the Conservative Milieu -- ONE: The Glory Is Departed: Political Theology, Presuppositional Apologetics, and the Early Ministry of Rousas John Rushdoony -- TWO: The Anti-Everything Agenda: Sectarianism, Remnants, and the Early American Conservative Movement -- THREE: A Christian Renaissance: The Chalcedon Foundation, Families, and the War against the State -- FOUR: Lex Rex: Neoevangelicalism, Biblical Law, Dominion
FIVE: Dominion Men: The New Christian Right, Christian Activism, Theology, and the LawSIX: American Heretics: Democracy, the Limits of Religion, and the End of Reconstruction -- CONCLUSION: To a Thousand Generations: Governance and Reconstruction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary: This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1915-2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)965072

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Children of Moloch: Christian Reconstruction, the State, and the Conservative Milieu -- ONE: The Glory Is Departed: Political Theology, Presuppositional Apologetics, and the Early Ministry of Rousas John Rushdoony -- TWO: The Anti-Everything Agenda: Sectarianism, Remnants, and the Early American Conservative Movement -- THREE: A Christian Renaissance: The Chalcedon Foundation, Families, and the War against the State -- FOUR: Lex Rex: Neoevangelicalism, Biblical Law, Dominion

FIVE: Dominion Men: The New Christian Right, Christian Activism, Theology, and the LawSIX: American Heretics: Democracy, the Limits of Religion, and the End of Reconstruction -- CONCLUSION: To a Thousand Generations: Governance and Reconstruction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1915-2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda.