The Institutes Of Biblical Law A Chalcedon Study

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875524108

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The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 1 by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of Biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject twenty centuries and their progress. The Institutes of Biblical Law has as its purpose a reversal of the present trend. it is called "Institutes" in the older meaning of the that word, i.e., fundamental principles, here of law, because it is intended as a beginning, as an instituting consideration of that law which must govern society, and which shall govern society under God. To understand Biblical law, it is necessary to understand also certain basic characteristics of that law. In it, certain broad premises or principles are declared. These are declarations of basic law. The Ten Commandments give us such declarations. A second characteristics of Biblical law, is that the major portion of the law is case law, i.e., the illustration of the basic principle in terms of specific cases. These specific cases are often illustrations of the extent of the application of the law; that is, by citing a minimal type of case, the necessary jurisdictions of the law are revealed. The law, then, asserts principles and cites cases to develop the implications of those principles, with is purpose and direction the restitution of God's order.

Author : Rousas John Rushdoony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1244460052

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The institutes of Biblical law : a Chalcedon study by Rousas John Rushdoony Pdf

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781879998230

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The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 2 by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

The relationship of Biblical Law to communion and community, the sociology of the Sabbath, the family and inheritance, and much more are covered in the second volume. The purpose of this second volume is to point men to God and His Word for the government of their lives and our world. To serve and magnify God is the greatest of privileges and callings, as is the reconstruction of all things in terms of the Word of God. This, after all, is the purpose of life, to be conformed to God. Contains an appendix by Herbert Titus.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781879998131

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The Institutes of Biblical Law Vol. 3 by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

God's law is much more than a legal code; it is a covenantal law. It establishes a personal relationship between God and man." The first section summarizes the case laws. The author tenderly illustrates how the law is for our good, and makes clear the difference between the sacrificial laws and those that apply today. The second section vividly shows the practical implications of the law. The examples catch the reader's attention; the author clearly has had much experience discussing God's law. The third section shows that would-be challengers to God's law produce only poison and death. Only God's law can claim to express God's "covenant grace in helping us."

Author : Waldemar Janzen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664254101

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Old Testament Ethics by Waldemar Janzen Pdf

Using five different Old Testament stories as paradigms for correct ethical behavior, Waldemar Janzen provides a comprehensive way of understanding the ethical message in the Old Testament. The five models of the good life he uses are the holy life (the priestly paradigm), the wise life (the sapiential or wisdom paradigm), the just life (the royal paradigm), the serving and suffering life (the prophetic paradigm), and the familial paradigm. Janzen demonstrates that all five paradigms are linked because the familial paradigm represents the comprehensive end of all Old Testament ethics.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875528915

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The Foundations of Social Order by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

"The Foundations of Social Order was, and remains, the most unique book ever written in the history of Christendom. Nothing like it has been written before, and nothing like it has been written since. Christian and non-Christian historians have generally agreed on at least one thing about creeds and history: they are not connected in any meaningful, comprehensive way. A few non-Christian historians-Harold Berman and his Law and Revolution being a good example-have mentioned that the Christian creeds have been instrumental in shaping the legal views and therefore the legal structure of the West. But a general study of how the creeds formed the West and its unique outlook has always been lacking; the reason being that both Christian and non-Christian authors are eager to constrain the significance of the creeds to the church and the history of theology. Even Philip Schaff in his three-volume work, The Creeds of Christendom, confines their value and use to the church. The view of the creeds has been dualistic; creeds were separated from history, and history was left to follow its own course, independent from the development of Christian theology and the perfection of the faith of the saints.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony,Greg L. Bahnsen
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Symposium on Biblical Law (JCR Vol. 2 No. 2) by R. J. Rushdoony,Greg L. Bahnsen Pdf

As a result, the break-down in secular legal structures throughout the world—a legal crisis which is becoming increasingly obvious to voters, politicians, and humanistic scholars—has not brought with it a cry for the restoration of biblical law, the only alternative which has any possibility of survival in the long run.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996717758

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Christianity and the State by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

By virtue of being King of kings and Lord of lords, Christ's reign over man and government is universal and total. "He removeth kings, and setteth up kings" (Dan. 2:21) and "increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them" (Job 12:23) because the government is on His shoulders: He is the governor among the nations (Isa. 9:7, Ps. 22:28). The need today is for the church to press the crown-rights of Christ the King, confident that His government over all will increase without end: "the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this." This powerful volume sets forth a Biblical theology of the state, tracing in detail the history and consequences of both statist domination and Christian dereliction of duty. By firmly establishing the Biblical alternative to modern Christianity's polytheism, the author alerts us to the pitfalls of the past, and provides Godly counsel for both the present and future. The crystallization of decades of research, Christianity and the State is a landmark volume of 20th century Christendom.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781879998834

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Faith and Action by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

Faith and Action is the complete collection of the essays of R. J. Rushdoony written for the Chalcedon Report between 1965 and 2001 along with several transcripts of his recorded talks. The large volume The Roots of Reconstruction only contained his Chalcedon Report essays up until 1985, so most of the essays included in Faith & Action were unavailable to readers for many years until now. In order to make the author’s knowledge more accessible, this three-volume collection features some of the most extensive indexing we’ve ever done including a General Index, a History Index, a Scripture Index, a Works Cited Index, and a Chalcedon Report Directory. A total of 183 pages of indexing! This handsome set of books is a must have for any serious library. The central theme of this collection of essays is Christian Reconstruction, which to Rushdoony meant the responsibility of Christian citizenship in the Kingdom of God. For him, his central drive behind his research and writing was to move men to faith and action. Rushdoony was primarily an essayist who vigorously and prolifically wrote on a multiplicity of subjects, issues, and dis­ciplines. Despite his being critical of both the contemporary church for its compro­mise and the humanistic state for its will to be as God, these essays are replete with Rushdoony’s undying faith in the victory of God in history. Rushdoony’s “big idea” was Christian Reconstruction which centered not on a pursuit of political power but rather an equipping of Christians to take back government by means of self-government in terms of God’s law. This three-volume collection will no doubt serve the larger church for many generations as they seek first the Kingdom of God in their spheres, and in their times.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781879998056

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By What Standard? by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

An introduction into the problems of Christian philosophy. It focuses on the philosophical system of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, which in turn is founded upon the presuppositions of an infallible revelation in the Bible and the necessity of Christian theology for all philosophy. Basic to this study is the belief that presuppositions of human thought in every field must be basically one in order to arrive at any concept which both validates biblical faith and human knowledge. The sovereignty of the self-contained God is the key to every field, in that only the God of Scripture makes all things possible and explicable and is thus the basic premise not only of theology, but of philosophy, science and indeed all knowledge. In that God is the Creator of all things. He is their only valid principle of interpretation, in that they derive both their existence and meaning from His creative act. This belief is herein set forth in terms of various aspects of human thought. Again basic to this study is the belief that such a philosophy finds consistent and able exposition in the writings of Cornelius Van Til. This work, therefore, is thus both an exposition as well of Van Til's development of that philosophy, a school of thought to which the author subscribes. This is Rushdoony's foundational work on philosophy.

Author : Robert F. Cochran,David VanDrunen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830895595

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Law and the Bible by Robert F. Cochran,David VanDrunen Pdf

The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgment the Bible expresses should become the law of the land. Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians? participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns our faulty assumptions and skewed commitments rather than bolsters them. In the process, God gives us greater insight into what all of life, including law, should be. Each chapter is cowritten by a legal professional and a theologian, and focuses on a key aspect of the biblical witness concerning civil or positive law--that is, law that human societies create to order their communities, implementing and enforcing it through civil government. A foundational text for legal professionals, law and prelaw students, and all who want to think in a faithfully Christian way about law and their relationship to it.

Author : Robert Leeson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319607085

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography by Robert Leeson Pdf

F. A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. This multi-volume biography examines the evolution of his life and influence. In this ninth volume of Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek, a variety of well-known contributors discuss Hayek's views on the divine right of the market taking democratic and free-market principles into account.

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781879998438

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Leviticus by R. J. Rushdoony Pdf

The book of Leviticus has not been a popular subject of study in the modern church. Much like the book of Proverbs, any emphasis upon the practical applications of God's law is readily shunned in pursuit of more "spiritual" studies. Books like Leviticus are considered dull, overbearing, and irrelevant. To be spiritual, in the modern sense of the term, means to live on a "higher" level where today's Christian is governed more by the impressions of the heart than a carnal commandment. But man was created in God's image and is duty-bound to develop the implications of that image by obedience to God's law. In this volume, the author writes, "Man cannot develop his personhood except in terms of God and His law-word. Even as God separated man from the dust of the earth to make him a living soul (Gen. 2:7), so God summons covenant man in Leviticus to separate himself to the Covenant Lord and to become holy even as God Himself is holy. The law or justice of God is the way of holiness." The book of Leviticus contains over ninety references to the word holy. The purpose, therefore, of this third book of the Pentateuch is to demonstrate the legal foundation of holiness in the totality of our lives. In the book of Zechariah, the prophet proclaims a day when "there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD" (Zech. 14:20). This same inscription is borne upon the garments of the high priest, and pictures for us a day in which every area of life shall be made holy to the Lord. This present study is dedicated to equipping His church for that redemptive mission.

Author : Rousas John Rushdoony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Jewish law
ISBN : OCLC:15312006

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The Institutes of Biblical Law by Rousas John Rushdoony Pdf

Author : Robert Sweetman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498296823

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Tracing the Lines by Robert Sweetman Pdf

Tracing the Lines takes on the project of what Christian scholarship is, and should be, today. It does so, however, with an eye to locating similarities in the rich tradition the last nearly two thousand years of Christian scholarship has given birth to. With humility and a sympathetic ear, Sweetman traces the way certain lines of thought have developed over time, showing their strengths, their weaknesses, and their motivation for shaping Christian scholarship in particular ways. Though he locates his own thought within a particular one of these streams, he shows how all of them have contributed in different ways to the formation of the work of Christian scholarship. Offering in the end an understanding of Christian scholarship as scholarship attuned to the shape of our Christian hearts, this book reaches across disciplines to connect Christians engaged in scholarship in all areas of the academy, whether at public or private institutions.