Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction,Used

Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction,Used

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For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law as it is contained in both the Old and New Testaments. They challenge the legitimacy of democracy, argue that slavery is biblically justifiable, and support the death penalty for all manner of 'crimes' described in the Bible including homosexuality, adultery, and Sabbathbreaking. But, as Julie Ingersoll shows in this fascinating new book, this 'Biblical Worldview' shapes their views not only on political issues, but on everything from private property and economic policy to history and literature. Holding that the Bible provides a coherent, internally consistent, and allencompassing worldview, they seek to remake the entirety of societychurch, state, family, economyalong biblical lines.Tracing the movement from its midtwentiethcentury origins in the writings of theologian and philosopher R.J. Rushdoony to its presentday sites of influence, including the Christian Home School movement, advocacy for the teaching of creationism, and the development and rise of the Tea Party, Ingersoll illustrates how Reconstructionists have broadly and subtly shaped conservative American Protestantism over the course of the latetwentieth and earlytwentyfirst centuries. Drawing on interviews with Reconstructionists themselves as well as extensive research in Reconstructionist publications, Building God's Kingdom offers the most complete and balanced portrait to date of this enigmatic segment of the Christian Right.

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