Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism
An intellectual history of the theologian whose fringe theocratic programme shaped homeschooling, the religious right, and arguments now heard in the mainstream.
McVicar gives a scholarly account of the theologian behind Christian Reconstructionism, tracing how a fringe theocratic programme came to shape homeschooling, the religious right, and ideas now audible in mainstream American politics. Rushdoony can be made to sound like a crank or like one of the most consequential figures in postwar conservatism, and both are defensible.
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Tyler Cowen
Another very good book no one told me about, somehow I stumbled on it browsing Amazon. You can make Rushdoony sound like a nut, but you also can make him sound like one of the most influential figures in the 20th century history of American conservatism and also libertarianism.
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