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Christian reconstructionism is a fundamentalist Calvinist theonomic movement. [1] It developed primarily under the direction of R. J. Rushdoony, Greg Bahnsen and Gary North [2] and has had an important influence on the Christian right in the United States.
In Christian reconstructionism, theonomy is the idea that God provides the basis of both personal and social ethics in the Bible. Theonomic ethics asserts that the Bible has been given as the abiding standard for all human authority (individual, family, church, and civil) and that biblical law must be incorporated into a Christian theory of ...
One of the original pillars of Christian Reconstruction, Bahnsen was a leading proponent of theonomy, postmillennialism, and presuppositional apologetics.He lectured to a broad range of evangelical Christian groups at many colleges and conferences, not only throughout the United States, but also in Scotland and Russia. [4]
Gary Kilgore North (February 11, 1942 – February 24, 2022) was an American writer, Austrian School economic historian, and leading figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement. [1] North authored or coauthored over fifty books on topics including Reformed Protestant theology, economics , and history .
Reconstructionist postmillennialism, on the other hand, sees that along with grass roots preaching of the Gospel and explicitly Christian education, Christians should also set about changing society's legal and political institutions in accordance with biblical, and also sometimes theonomic, ethics (see dominion theology).
Rushdoony was, and remains, a controversial figure, as is the Christian Reconstructionist movement in which he was involved. Pointing to Rushdoony's support for the death penalty , the British Centre for Science Education decried his perceived dislike of democracy and tolerance. [ 9 ]
Dominion theology is a reference to the King James Bible's rendering of Genesis 1:28 in which God grants humanity "dominion" over the Earth.. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
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