Rousas John Rushdoony(1916-2001) was born in New York City to recently arrived Armenian immigrants who had fled the Turkish massacres of 1915-1916. Within weeks his parents moved to Kingsburg, California, where his father founded an Armenian-speaking Presbyterian church. He spent his boyhood, save for a time when his father was a pastor in Detroit, Michigan,…
Rev. R. J. Rushdoony December 1997 It is a privilege and a form of wealth to be born into a rich culture, and most Americans, although they fail to recognize it, are born rich. My father and others with an extensive knowledge of various cultures often remarked that the poor in America were richer and…
Rushdoony says in so many words that the long term answer is to produce a complete Christian culture – a reformation of culture that provides a true alternative to the institutionalized love of death culture of the public schools and humanism, a culture where everything is oriented around Christ and His LawWord. This cultural reformation…
Why the controversy over the 10 Commandments? God's Ten Commandments Do they still apply? What do they mean? Do they trump man's laws? Was Jesus Christ the walking, talking, embodiment of God's Law? How are we dead to the law? What is the yardstick for right and wrong? Is it a rubber yardstick or do…
For the United States, or for any country, to be converted to God’s Law Order the Institutes of Biblical Law lessons must be broadcast throughout the land 24 x 7. Every father is responsible to teach God’s Law Word or have these lessons taught to his family for a minimum of one lesson per day.…
Deuteronomy 6:6,7 And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. Parents have the responsibility to teach…
Saved by Grace – a gift of God Justified by Faith – a gift of God Sanctified by Law – a gift of God Rewarded by Works – a gift of God This may not be an exhaustive list of co-inherencies, nonetheless a great many errors and heresies can be understood as a mixing up…
Every area of life is impacted by the religious aspect of man’s being: educational, cultural, political, economical, reproductive, and personal. The job of Humanism, the dominant philosophy in western culture, is to push you into meaninglessness in every area of your life. Once this goal is achieved you commit suicide. The job of Christianity is to offer…
Glory belongs to God. When a flower is in its bloom and is glorious to behold, it is the creator of the flower who is to recieve the glory, not the flower itself, which is here to day and tomorrow is only fit for the garbage. Since God must be glorified and all glory belongs…
What jurisdiction? You mean this website? Not just this website. Reality. The universe. Time. Ethics. The whole enchilada. Everything. And then some. Christ (incarnate Torah) Rules through His LawWord (inscripturated Torah), gives meaning, definition, life, health, and context to all things. Thus the study of, and listening and obedience to, His LawWord is to be…
Introduction to the Law The Importance of the Law by R.J. Rushdoony When Wyclif wrote of his English Bible that “This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” his statement attracted no attention insofar as his emphasis on the centrality of Biblical law was concerned. That law…
Christ rules…everything. Welcome to ChristRules.com, the home of Van Til University, founded on the work and teachings of Cornelius Van Til, the great Dutch philosopher. You can read the book about Van Til by R.J. Rushdoony here. Here is what Rushdoony had to say about Van Til: Van Til is important because he developed the…