Humanistic Salvation
Salvation is a concern of man in every area of life. All men are religious creatures. God, having made man, man is inescapably religious, but Paul tells us that men, having abandoned God, worshiped the creature rather than the creator. They profess as wisdom the worship of themselves and of their own will, or the worship of animals and creeping things, and they change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man.
- R. J. Rushdoony
Salvation is a concern of man in every area of life. All men are religious creatures. God, having made man, man is inescapably religious, but Paul tells us that men, having abandoned God, worshiped the creature rather than the creator. They profess as wisdom the worship of themselves and of their own will, or the worship of animals and creeping things, and they change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man.
- R. J. Rushdoony
Rev. R.J. Rushdoony (1916–2001), was a leading theologian, church/state expert, and author of numerous works on the application of Biblical law to society. He started the Chalcedon Foundation in 1965. His Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) began the contemporary theonomy movement which posits the validity of Biblical law as God’s standard of obedience for all. He therefore saw God’s law as the basis of the modern Christian response to the cultural decline, one he attributed to the church’s false view of God’s law being opposed to His grace. This broad Christian response he described as “Christian Reconstruction.” He is credited with igniting the modern Christian school and homeschooling movements in the mid to late 20th century. He also traveled extensively lecturing and serving as an expert witness in numerous court cases regarding religious liberty. Many ministry and educational efforts that continue today, took their philosophical and Biblical roots from his lectures and books.