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Reconstructing America: Religion, American Conservatism, and the Political Theology of Rousas John Rushdoony

Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Indian member of his church on the school board: "A Christian principal is our objective," he told the meeting, "plus a Christian staff, all willing to work with the Church on a broad Christian communal program." 3 Rushdoony reckoned that education based on Christian principals would not only help save the children enrolled in the school but, over time, would change the culture of the reservation and lead to the redemption and regeneration of all Indians.Since the area was so isolated, Rushdoony knew that his mission did not face the "usual competition most Churches face" from non-Christian diversions.4 He also believed that federal officials would turn a blind eye to his proposed curriculum, which would include "temperance education, information against the strong peyote cult, facts on smoking, and the like." 5 On the reservation, he foresaw an opportunity to break down the boundaries between church and state and use education to raise up a generation of Godly men.Nearly four decades later in Dallas, Texas, in August 1980, the Religious Roundtable, a Christian organization that included prominent national Protestant leaders from the Campus Crusade for Christ and the National Association of Evangelicals, organized the National Affairs Briefing Conference.The conference organizers invited president Jimmy Carter and his Republican rival, former California governor Ronald Reagan, to address a group of politically and socially conservative clergy.Carter declined.Reagan accepted.When Reagan stepped to the podium at the seventeenthousand-seat Reunion Arena, he told the non-partisan group of conservative pastors and 3 Ibid.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2249109685
FWCI: 1.041
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