Building God's kingdom : inside the world of Christian reconstruction / Julie J. Ingersoll. [print]

Christian reconstructionist theology -- Jurisdictional authority and sphere sovereignty -- Building a reconstructed society : Gary North's biblical blueprint series -- Raising a godly generation : Christian schooling -- Home schooling for dominion -- Creationism, mythmaking, ritual and social formation -- Building a family dynasty : Doug Phillips and vision forum -- American vision and the repackaging of Rushdoony -- David Barton, Rushdoony and the tea party -- Christian reconstruction and violence.

For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law as it is contained in both the Old and New Testaments. They challenge the legitimacy of democracy, argue that slavery is biblically justifiable, and support the death penalty for all manner of "crimes" described in the Bible including homosexuality, adultery, and Sabbath-breaking. But, as Julie Ingersoll shows in this fascinating new book, this "Biblical Worldview" shapes their views not only on political issues, but on everything from private property and economic policy to history and literature. Holding that the Bible provides a coherent, internally consistent, and all-encompassing worldview, they seek to remake the entirety of society--church, state, family, economy--along biblical lines.

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