Messiahship
We have a duty to work for the conversion of men, women, and children, and nations, civil governments, and to place them under Christ, not Christ under the state, and unless civil government accepts Jesus Christ as Lord, conflict between church and state is inescapable. The state will try to play God and rule over the church, and this is why we have the problems we do today, but Christians must stand for the crown rights of Jesus Christ the Lord.
- R. J. Rushdoony
We have a duty to work for the conversion of men, women, and children, and nations, civil governments, and to place them under Christ, not Christ under the state, and unless civil government accepts Jesus Christ as Lord, conflict between church and state is inescapable. The state will try to play God and rule over the church, and this is why we have the problems we do today, but Christians must stand for the crown rights of Jesus Christ the Lord.
- 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.