A project to get everything RJ Rushdoony ever said (on tape) transcribed and made searchable. Update: All of the funds needed to get all 10,000,000 words transcribed have been pledged. Thank you donors!
We still need funding for programming so the results of the transcriptions can be easily searched, coordinated with the audio lessons, and tagged by users. We are calling this the “Put a Rush On It!” Project.
Larger donations requiring a tax receipt can be made through Charlotte CRC at 421 State St., Charlotte MI 48813. Please designate “Put a Rush On It! Project” in the Memo space on the check.
RJ Rushdoony probably had an IQ of around 200. He spent 14 hours a day reading and studying, 6 days a week. He read 1-3 books a day starting when he was 14 and continuing through his entire life. He spent 3 years teaching the Institutes of Biblical Law, faithfully recording every lesson. These were then sent to George Calhoun who faithfully maintained the tapes in the Mt Olive Tape Library for 35 years or so. Now they have been digitized and are presented at www.PocketCollege.com. I cannot overstate the importance of these audio lessons.
Now we are taking it to the next level: transcription. This is now under way.
When complete, you will be able to search the archive for anything Rushdoony has said, confirm quotes, get the full picture on any topic he talks about, pull quotes for a million uses, etc. The transcriptions will also have time stamps to allow instant location of a particular audio segment. There are certainly many more uses I cannot even think of right now.
More important is what this means for God’s Kingdom. Bottom line: We are looking at the body of Rushdoony’s life’s work that will form the foundation for the next stage of Christian civilization. It must be made fully accessible so that Rushdoony can be made to speak to every issue that comes up, whether to deconstruct humanism or to reconstruct that issue in terms of Christ. We need to equip an army of Christians to populate blogs and social media with Rushdoony’s thinking on every topic.
There is no escape from the formula of Scripture as regards the cure of souls, whether that of individuals or churches or nations.
a) Preaching and Teaching Biblical Law (as the standard of right and wrong)
b) Confession of Sins (violations of that standard).
c) Repentance (turning away from those sins).
d) Penance (visible acts to prove repentance).
e) Restitution (paying for the damage done and the lost productivity).
f) Healing (atonement of Christ covering the sin and giving wholeness)
See: The Cure of Souls by RJ Rushdooony (Recovering the Biblical Doctrine of Confession) http://chalcedon.edu/resea
The Ten Million Word Project is a serious positive effort to complete step a) without which we cannot proceed to the next steps.
All of this is to grow a culture of godly people that will manifest the Kingdom of God, not for just the 1-2 generations or so of the Puritan experiment, but for hundreds of generations, till the knowledge of the LORD covers the earth like the waters cover the seas.