Knowing the Triune God #5
The word means “self being”. It means that God is God. That he is not derived from anything else nor is there anything apart from him in terms of which he can be judged. There is no idea, for example, of the good or of justice apart from God whereby God can be judged. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. So that all creation is the handiwork of God, all things visible and invisible are his creation.
- R. J. Rushdoony
The word means “self being”. It means that God is God. That he is not derived from anything else nor is there anything apart from him in terms of which he can be judged. There is no idea, for example, of the good or of justice apart from God whereby God can be judged. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. So that all creation is the handiwork of God, all things visible and invisible are his creation.
- 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.
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