The Corporation & Limited Existence
When the state says we are the corporation, the supreme corporation, they are saying we are what the church once was. The institution that is beyond your reach to challenge. You have no right to question our right to existence. You have no right to say, “Who made you a corporation? Who gave you the law that says you are beyond our reach?” A modern state has borrowed the biblical doctrines for anti-Christian purposes.
- R. J. Rushdoony
When the state says we are the corporation, the supreme corporation, they are saying we are what the church once was. The institution that is beyond your reach to challenge. You have no right to question our right to existence. You have no right to say, “Who made you a corporation? Who gave you the law that says you are beyond our reach?” A modern state has borrowed the biblical doctrines for anti-Christian purposes.
- 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.