Michael J. McVicar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469622743
- eISBN:
- 9781469622767
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622743.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter discusses how Christian Reconstructionism had grown out of Rushdoony’s hostile relationship with the editors of Christianity Today, most notably Carl F. H. Henry, as he tried to ...
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This chapter discusses how Christian Reconstructionism had grown out of Rushdoony’s hostile relationship with the editors of Christianity Today, most notably Carl F. H. Henry, as he tried to challenge other conservative Christians to see Mosaic law as the antidote to the perceived lawlessness of the 1960s. After failing to create an expedient alliance with businessman and philanthropist J. Howard Pew in an attempt to influence Christianity Today and the neoevangelical coalition it represented, Rushdoony turned his attention to fully articulating his vision of Biblical law as an alternative to the “law and order” discourse emerging among his fellow conservatives. He argued that Biblical law could provide the necessary mechanism to reconstruct America into a neofeudal Protestant state that would eventually usher in Christ’s second coming.Less
This chapter discusses how Christian Reconstructionism had grown out of Rushdoony’s hostile relationship with the editors of Christianity Today, most notably Carl F. H. Henry, as he tried to challenge other conservative Christians to see Mosaic law as the antidote to the perceived lawlessness of the 1960s. After failing to create an expedient alliance with businessman and philanthropist J. Howard Pew in an attempt to influence Christianity Today and the neoevangelical coalition it represented, Rushdoony turned his attention to fully articulating his vision of Biblical law as an alternative to the “law and order” discourse emerging among his fellow conservatives. He argued that Biblical law could provide the necessary mechanism to reconstruct America into a neofeudal Protestant state that would eventually usher in Christ’s second coming.
Miles S. Mullin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199329502
- eISBN:
- 9780199369362
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199329502.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter provides an extensive survey of neoevangelical periodicals from the movement’s formative post-World War II period to explain how evangelical leaders embraced an individualistic and ...
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This chapter provides an extensive survey of neoevangelical periodicals from the movement’s formative post-World War II period to explain how evangelical leaders embraced an individualistic and gradualist approach to racial equality for the sake of the movement’s unity. This moderate approach toward race relations in neoevangelicalism’s nascent state planted the seeds for the individualistic and relational response to calls for racial equality that have blossomed in evangelical churches today.Less
This chapter provides an extensive survey of neoevangelical periodicals from the movement’s formative post-World War II period to explain how evangelical leaders embraced an individualistic and gradualist approach to racial equality for the sake of the movement’s unity. This moderate approach toward race relations in neoevangelicalism’s nascent state planted the seeds for the individualistic and relational response to calls for racial equality that have blossomed in evangelical churches today.
