BUILDING GODS KINGDOM Quotes

“According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was “far worse than that of slaves:”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“Christian Reconstructionists.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“For North, economic collapse is not merely an economic prediction but a theological necessity. It is in the context of this collapse that biblical Christians will come to exercise dominion.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“For Rushdoony, the Civil War was not fought over slavery. It was a religious war. The North had abandoned Christianity in favor of humanism, and the South was fighting to defend a Christian civilization.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“The notion of a Judeo-Christian tradition, he says, is a myth invented by Enlightenment humanists to promote pluralistic social values.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“whether this Court agrees that ‘religion’ meant monotheism or believes that it meant Christianity … it is clear that atheism, heathenism, and paganism were not part of the definition of”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“we’re not after power. We’re after ministry. The civil magistrate is a minister of God and we want the civil magistrate to get back to being a minister of God.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“If one wanted to assess whether a generation of homeschoolers raised on Christian Reconstruction have any influence, the Georgia State Republican Party might be a good place to start.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“Formerly executive vice president of Answers in Genesis, Vallorani is also cofounder of Tolle Lege Press and Liberty Alliance, a network of websites that includes the Tea Party–oriented Patriot Update, Patriot Depot, and Zionica.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“Calvin was “the author of religious freedom” in the sense he understood the limitations placed on the role and authority of the state by the Bible. Religious freedom is not a freedom possessed by individuals, it is the freedom of religious institutions from the influence of the civil government. In other words it is sphere sovereignty.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“In short, Vision Forum was a thoroughly Reconstructionist organization.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“This means that being in opposition to “the world” is, to them, itself proof of the validity of their claims. Moreover, criticism and even ridicule from “the world” becomes further evidence confirming their position.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING IS infused with the values of Christian Reconstruction and is seen by those in the movement as the single most important tool for the exercise of dominion.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“The goal of biblical covenantalism is to bring all the institutions of life under the rule of God’s covenant law. The State imposes negative sanctions against specified public acts of evil. The churches preach the gospel and proclaim God’s law. The family acts as the agent of dominion. Voluntary corporations of all kinds are established to achieve both profitable and charitable goals.46”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“The meaning of the family is thus not to be sought in procreation but in a God-centered authority and responsibility in terms of man’s calling to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

“There are two key aspects of Christian Reconstruction expressed theologically as presuppositionalism and postmillennialism, culturally as theonomy and dominion, and cast in accessible popular terms as the critique of secular humanism and the effort to restore America as a Christian nation.”
― Julie Ingersoll, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction