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Popular religious author, feminist, and former Roman Catholic religious sister Karen Armstrong sees a potential for "fascism" in Christian reconstructionism, and sees the eventual Dominion envisioned by theologians R. J. Rushdoony and Gary North as "totalitarian. There is no room for any other view or policy, no democratic tolerance for rival ...
In short, he sought to cast a vision for the reconstruction of society based on Christian principles. [29] The book was critical of democracy. He wrote that "the heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state ... Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies" because democracy asserts the will of man over the will of God.
Faith deconstruction, also known as deconstructing faith, religious deconstruction, or simply deconstruction, is a process during which religious believers reexamine and question their beliefs. It originated in American evangelicalism , where it may be called evangelical deconstruction . [ 1 ]
The Foundation's founder, Rousas John Rushdoony, who is known as “father of Christian Reconstruction” theology, [5] advocated the imposition of Old Testament laws. [12] Newsweek magazine described the Chalcedon Foundation as "a think tank of the Religious Right, including the Moral Majority ."
A 2011 article in The New York Times identified North as a central figure in Christian reconstructionism, the philosophy which advocates the institution of "a Christian theocracy under Old Testament law [as] the best form of government, and a radically libertarian one." [23] North wrote: "I certainly believe in biblical theocracy." [25] [26]
Christian materialism; Christian philosophy; Christian Realism; Christianity and environmentalism; Christological argument; City of God (book) Classical theism; Clemens Timpler; Clement of Alexandria; Clerical philosophers; Clericalism; Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion; Confucius; Consciousness-only; Contemporary Islamic ...
The theory of religious economy sees different religious organizations competing for followers in a religious economy, much like the way businesses compete for consumers in a commercial economy. Theorists assert that a true religious economy is the result of religious pluralism , giving the population a wider variety of choices in religion.
Christian Reconstructionism, a Calvinistic theological-political movement; Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism, a revival of ancient Greek religion; Polytheistic reconstructionism, an approach to modern paganism; Reconstructionist Judaism, a modern American-based Jewish movement; Zalmoxianism, a rebirth of ancient Dacian religion