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Auteur(s) : McVicar, Michael J.
Titre(s) : Christian reconstruction [Texte imprimé] : R. J. Rushdoony and American religious conservatism / Michael J. McVicar
Publication : Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Description matérielle : xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction : Children of Moloch : Christian reconstruction, the state, and the conservative
milieu ; The glory is departed : political theology, presuppositional apologetics,
and the early ministry of Rousas John Rushdoony ; The anti-everything agenda : sectarianism,
remnants, and the early American conservative movement ; A Christian renaissance
: the Chalcedon foundation, families, and the war against the state ; Lex Rex : Neoevangelicalism,
biblical law, dominion ; Dominion men : The new Christian right, Christian activism,
theology, and the law ; American heretics : democracy, the limits of religion, and
the end of reconstruction ; Conclusion : To a thousand generations : governance and
reconstruction.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and
champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-2001). Drawing on exclusive
access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar
demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of
the radical Christain Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement,
Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than "reconstructing" individuals through a
form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U. S. citizens,
would fundamentally alter the shape of American society. McVicar examines Rushdoony's
career and traces Reconstructionism as it grew from a grassroots, populist movement
in the 1960s to its height of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He reveals the movement's
galvanizing role in the development of political conspiracy theories and survivalism,
libertarianism and antistatism, and educational reform and homeschooling. The book
demonstrates how these issues have retained and in many cases gained potency for conservative
Christians to the present day, despite the decline of the movement itself beginning
in the 1990s. McVicar contends that Christian Reconstruction has contributed significantly
to how certain forms of religiosity have become central, and now familiar, aspects
of an often controversial conservative revolution in America. -- from back cover
Sujet(s) : Rushdoony, Rousas John (1916-2001)
Conservatisme -- Christianisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781469622743 (pbk) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1469622742 (pbk) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781469622750 (erroné) (ebook)
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FRBNF44309081
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