CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTION-- A recently articulated philosophy which argues that it is the moral obligation of Christians to recapture every institution for Jesus Christ. It proclaims "the crown rights of King Jesus."
The means by which this task might be accomplished -a few CR's are not convinced that it can be-is biblical law. This is the "tool of dominion." We have been assigned a dominion covenant--a God-given assignment to men to conquer in His name (Gen. 1:28; 9:1-7).
The founders of the movement have combined four basic Christian beliefs into one overarching system:
1) biblical law,
2) optimistic eschatology,
3) predestination (providence),
4) presuppositional apologetics(philosophical defense of the faith).
Not all CR's hold all four positions, but the founders have held all four.
The first person who put this system together publicly was Rousas John Rushdoony. He was my mentor during the 1960's, and while I was working on the specific field of economics, he was developing the overall framework. The first comprehensive introduction to the Christian Reconstruction position was Rushdoony's The Institutes of Biblical Law (Craig Press, 1973), in which three of my appendices appear. The.easiest introduction to the position is my book, Unconditional Surrender: God's Program for Victory (2nd ed., Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983).
from the glossary of BACKWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS? pp 267-68 , North, 1983
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