Susan,
At 03:04 AM 8/5/2005, you wrote:
>>I think, by the way, you are vastely overestimating the numbers of Christian
>>Reconstructionalists. As Mark pointed out, Gary North went over to Christian
>>Identity. Fundamentalists have become increasingly politicized over the past
>>thirty years, but very, very few are Reconstructionalists.<<
It depends on how broadly you want to define the concept. Rushdoony was a
Calvinist, and it is true that Christian Reconstructionists make up only a tiny
minority within 5-point Calvinism.
However, outside Calvinism, Christian Reconstructionism and Rushdoony have had
a considerable impact on fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism -
especially with pentecostals and charismatics. When separated from Calvinism,
these views are generally called "dominion theology."
For instance, Pat Robertson, while a dispensational premillennialist, has taken
some ideas developed by Rushdoony, whom he admires a great deal, and used them
in his own version of the Christian Right. These are most evident in his book,
_The Secret Kingdom_, which I read back when it first came out in 1992.
Also, kingdom now theology ("latter rain"), a pentecostal movement which owes
much to both Rushdoony and William Branham, is overtly post-millennialist.
Proponents believe that Christ will not return until the church has dominion
over the earth.
Via moderna, Mark A. Foster . http://markfoster.net
... since [a] word is said to be common, it can be called
a universal. - Wm. of Ockham, Summa Logicae, part I
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