In theory, all of us know our orthodoxy. We know about the Trinity, about our redemption. We can speak about our solas, and we know our TULIP. But then, when most of us go out in the world and meet reality, we still view it and assess it through pagan eyes. That’s because our modern theology has bec…
Every time someone says, “this is the real problem,” or “this is the real conflict,” it doesn't say much about the problem or the conflict he is describing – that problem or conflict may be real, and it may not be real. But the truth is, it says a lot about the real worldview of the person saying it.
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The only real asset the producer has at the point of sale and negotiation is the personality of his salesman. Or, the reputation of his salesman. Assigned Reading: – Wisdom and Dominion, Gary North
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Why do foreign missions need to start with books? Assigned Reading: – The Book That Made Your World, Vishal Mangalwadi
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“Why the Chinese have it wrong.” Assigned Reading: – The Formation of Christendom, Judith Herrin
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When R.J. Rushdoony said that theocracy is the closest thing to radical libertarianism that can be had, he was not speaking figuratively, nor was he speaking politically. He was speaking literally, based on a thorough analysis of Biblical Law and the social order it prescribed. Assigned Reading: – Law and Liberty, R.J. Rushdoony – The Theme is Freedom, M. Stanton Evans
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What is the Prophetic Ministry supposed to do, and why is it so hated by the modern church celebrities? Assigned Reading: – Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age, Bruno Bettelheim
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“The image of God in man laughs at Malthus's closed-universe paganism. The end of history will not be economic. It will come not because we have run out of resources…The end will be covenantal: it will come because the church has fulfilled the Great Commission and has made the whole world submit to Christ, and has made all His enemies His footstool. Assigned Reading: – The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich
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Jesus had a view of the future that scandalized both Gentiles and Jews. Assigned Reading: – Is the World Running Down? Crisis in the Christian Worldview, Gary North
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You have heard it said that the Biblical role of the civil government is to provide safety. But is this true? Assigned Reading: – Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law, Philip Howard
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The worldview of a culture is revealed in the way it responds to calamity. Assigned Reading: – Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age, Bruno Bettelheim
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“What does the GDP growth of the last one quarter tell us about the economy, from a Biblical perspective?” Assigned Reading: – Regime Uncertainty, Robert Higgs (Published in The Independent Review, Volume 1, Number 4, of Spring 1997)
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If you want to summarize the practical ideology of cultural pessimism, it is this: Every solution must be by default incomplete and temporary; the problems stay forever. And let me tell you, folks: There's money in it. Huge money. Assigned Reading: – Restoring America, Joel McDurmon
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That's what the real covenantal meaning of collectivism is: an ideology which subjects individuals to the moral dictatorship of human collectives and/or elites, with the purpose of re-educating them into obedient pawns. Assigned Reading: – Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age, Bruno Bettelheim Assigned Watching: – The Bourne Identity
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“Tyrannies always demand enormous sacrifices for negligible returns.” Assigned Reading: – Russia in 1839, Astolphe de Custine
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Modern voting is an act of war against an ever-encroaching state, trying to consume lives, liberty, and property. In such a war of protection of the home, there is no difference between men and women. Assigned Reading: – Freedom Conference Lectures, Bojidar Marinov
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Within the context of the Dominion Covenant, there is no contradiction between conventional farming and organic farming. Assigned Reading: – Agricultural Revolution in England, Mark Overton
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Patriarchy is not the antidote to sodomy. It is its mother. Assigned Reading: – The Pink Swastika, Scott Lively & Kevin Abrams
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In the final account, our service to the lowest among us will determine the strength of our faith. That is where true Christianity is. Assigned Reading: – Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, Herbert Schlossberg
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“He took on Himself all the guilt of the world.” Assigned Reading: – Redemption: Accomplished and Applied, John Murray
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“A sodomite culture that has come to fruition has come to fruitlessness.” Assigned Reading: – Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, Herbert Schlossberg
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“God doesn't tolerate the injustice of closed borders for too long.” Assigned Reading: – Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane
South Africa's White Farmers: A Covenantal Lesson "God doesn't tolerate the injustice of closed borders for too long." Assigned reading: Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy The post South Africa’s White Farmers: A Covenantal Lesson appeared first on Reconstructionist Radio Reformed Podcast Network.
Assigned Reading: – Abundance, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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In the same way, as patent legislation was proposed to lead to faster pace of scientific and technological growth, in the majority of cases, it only stifled growth, as inventors spend more time and resources running the race to get monopoly grants from bureaucrats to kill all competition, rather than develop their ideas in practice and making them available, serving as many people as possible, and making money in the process. Assigned Reading: – The Mythology of Science, R.J. Rushdoony
Assigned Reading: – Paul and Gender, by Cynthia Long Westfall
Does the Bible mention believers who are in service of a pagan, executive state, and does the Bible give specific commands to those believers? Assigned Reading: – The Best Years,1945-1950, Joseph Goulden
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Given that ethical/judicial context of two-way responsibility between men and their institutions, then, what is the Biblical way for us to think about the tithe? Assigned Reading: – Tithing and Dominion, R.J. Rushdoony
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In the interaction between a superior culture and an inferior culture, it is the inferior culture that loses, and eventually, gets assimilated. Assigned Reading: – Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, Herbert Schlossberg