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1916–2001 United States

Rousas John "R. J." Rushdoony (April 25, 1916 – February 8, 2001) was a Calvinist philosopher, historian, and theologian and is widely credited as the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement.

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Also known as: Rousas Rushdoony

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The church today has fallen prey to the heresy of democracy.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

"The position of Pope Paul came close to being a pan-Deism, and pan-Deism is the logical development of the virus of Hellenic thought."

The One and the Many (1971)

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

The significance of Jesus Christ as the "faithful and true witness" is that He not only witnesses against those who are at war against God, but He also executes them.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

Every law-order is in a state of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of warfare.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

"But a sincere idealist, implicitly pan-Deist in faith, deeply concerned with the problems of the world and of time, can be a Ghibelline pope, and Dante's Ghibellines have at last triumphed."

The One and the Many (1971)

The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death.

If men are not regenerated by Christ, and if they will not submit to His calling, to the cultural mandate, they will be crushed by His power.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973)

The homosexuals say they are for God. Now, who are we going to believe, God or the pervert?

The move from Africa to America was a vast increase of freedom for the Negro, materially and spiritually.

Politics of Guilt and Pity (1978)

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz (1995)

We as Christians have a mandate. We have not been called to retire from the world when we are saved but to go out and conquer.

Early socialists and latter-day mercantilists and interventionist were united in the battle for state-controlled education as a means of social control. The uncontrolled mind was a dangerous mind.

The modern attempt to reduce Jesus to the level of political reformer, and the church to the same level, is a denial of Christ’s true Kingship.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

David Cantor and Alan M. Schwartz (1995)

The Western mind and culture, in all its advances, is a product of biblical religion. It is a religious, not a racial, product.

The New Racism (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rousas John Rushdoony (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.