Indexes

Indexes

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Subject Index

“Holy Roman Emperor”, 138

 

amillennialism, 8, 12–19, 12, 15, 16, 17, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39

and allegory, 13, 15

and Augustinianism, 15, 17

and liberalism, 29

and pietism, 17

and Princeton, 36

and Warfield, 28, 31

Augustinianism, 13

classical, 18, 40

conservative, 18

contemporary, 19, 35

in Reformed theology, 25

liberal, 18

modern, 101

Rushdoony on, 34

view of the Church, 16

  1. postmillennialism, 28

Antichrist, 20, 22, 24, 37, 133, 158

Aristotle

and Aquinas, xvii, 13

and Reformed Theology, 74

Augustine

and Calvin, 126

and Catholicism, xvii, 13

and Manichaeanism, 33

and postmillennialism, 33, 105

and the chialists, 16

dualism, 27

numerus perfectus, City of God, 16

relation to Reformation, 31

relation to Reformation, 13

  1. Aquinas, 6

Augustinian, 13

amillennialism, 13, 16, 17, 21

eschatology, failure of, 27, 30

philosophy, 7

theology, assumption of, 6

theology, dualism, 33

Augustinianism

and natural theology, 6

and The Reformation, 13

eschatology, 30

eschatology, failure of, 17

authority

1 Tim 2

1, 134

abuse of (COVID), 119

and God’s Law, 109

and intercession, 133

Church, 67

family, 64

federal vs state (US), 60

in Hunt, 100

limits of, 138

limits of State, 134

messianic, 35

of demon spirits, xii

papal, xix, 162

Resurrection, 131

Romans 13, 135

scriptural, 3

terms of exercise of, 137

the Father’s, 20

autonomy

and The Enlightenment, xvii

and Van Til, 76

in the Roman Empire, 136

political, 139

  1. theonomy, 77, 127

 

Bertrand Russell

analytic philosophy, 43

and logical positivism, 44

Problems of Philosophy, 43

Bible, 123

and dispensationalism, 35

and evangelicalism, 3

and Luther, 84

and philosophy, 113

and postmillennial hermeneutics, 103

and postmillennialism, 14

and replacement theology, 13

and The Parousia, 115

and theonomy, 84

as literature, 14, 135

authority of, 73

hermeneutics, 2, 127, 147

in US schools, 69

independent scholars of, 23

Scofield Reference, 22

Business as a Mission, 93

 

Calvin

and amillennialism, 13

and Anabaptism, 134

and Augustine, 31

and Beza, Knox, Puritanism, 126

and human reason, 72

and philosophy, 114

and political involvement, 142, 159

and postmillennialism, 40, 105, 106

and premillennialism, 21

and Reformed Theology, 109

and The Reformers, Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, 121

as a tyrant, 105

as Renaissance scholar, xvii

cessationism, 26

on Papist violence, 102

on the Book of James, 84

Problem of Evil, 47

Catholic

and Charles II, 162

as degenerate, apostate, 72

charismatic, 23

Church, as an Ark, 33

hegemony, xiv, xvii, xix, 107, 162

Louis XIV, 163

NGOs, 65

rejection of Augustine, 13

scholarship, xvii

social teaching, 65

US bishops, 65

  1. Cromwell, 161
  2. Protestant thought, 6

Western Church, 12

Catholicism, 67

and the English Civil War, 163

eschatology, 13

  1. Protestantism, 6

Charles Finney, 116

and political involvement, 142

and Wheaton college, xviii

Charlie Kirk, xiv, 149

Christian experience, xii, 8, 9

personal testimony, xi

Christian Nationalism, 5, 93, 146, 148

Christianity

“Christianity and Liberalism”, 125

and Dave Hunt, 96

and J G Machen, 124, 126

and politics, 130, 132

and Rushdoony, 79

and the professions, 108

and the State, 107

apologetics, xvi

Arminian, xviii, 75, 90

Barthianism, 51

Billy Graham, 99

charismatic, 87, 152

Christianity Today, 99, 106

conservative, 51, 81

dominionism, xx, 1, 4

evangelicalism, 3

fundamentalism, 2, 51

Hellenistic, 34

in the modern period, xvii

in the Public Square, xiv, xvi

neo-orthodoxy, 19

philosophy of, 121

Postevangelicalism, 151–55

postmillennial, 32

protestant, 151

‘quiet’, 7, 68, 155

Reconstructionism, 94

Reformed, 94

revivalism, 90

Roe vs Wade, 68

‘seeker sensitive’, 154

  1. humanism, 70
  2. secular humanism, 124

YouTube, xiii

Cope, xiii, 78, 90, 127, 156

and societal reformation, 131

and theonomy, 84, 127

cultural critique, 90, 116

on dispensationalism, 156

on scripture, 128, 131

YWAM, xi, 110

 

Daniel, 24

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 112

dispensationalism, 26, 33, 40, 156

“Left Behind”, 159

and fundamentalism, 37

and mysticism, 36

and the Rapture, 21, 37, 156

and the Rapture, 157

as heterodox, 40, 104

as modern premillennialism, 100

as premillennialism, 28, 156

Daniel’s 70th Week, 22

hermeneutic tradition, 23

House, Ice, 105

in the 21st century, 158

origin of, 21

premillennialist criticism of, 104

  1. covenant theology, 35

doctrines of demons, xii, 25

dominion theology, 60–80

“making disciples”, 131

and amillennialism, 38

and Augustinianism, 6

and Catholicism, Protestantism, 6

and Christian ethics, xxi

and conservatism, 60

and different Christian traditions, 6

and eschatology, 11

and Hal Lindsey, 95

and J Gresham Machen, xix

and political involvement, 113–44

and postmillennialism, 39

and premillennialism, 37

and quiet Christians, 7

and R J Rushdoony, xix, 60–80

and Romans 13, 133

and the Millenium, 12

and the Reformation, xvi

and Theonomy, 77

and Van Til, 75

charismatic movement, xix

critiques of, 94–113

evangelicalism, 3, 4

fundamentalism, 1

growth of, 87

historical precursors of, 42–60

neopentecostalism, 108

political and social program, xii

secularism, 3

theocracy, 129

Wagner, 91

dominionism

and Dave Hunt, 96, 105

and evangelicalism, 2, 96, 101

and fundamentalism, 4, 7

and Gary North, 92

and Kingdom Now, 95

and neoevangelicalism, 108

and neo-evangelicalism, 105

and postmillennialism, 41

and premillennialism, Rapture, 11

and Reconstructionism, 146

and Rushdoony, 70

as a genus, 93

attacks on, 95

critique of, 111

critiques of, 9

effect on Pentecostal, Charismatic churches, 106

localized expressions of, 7

orthodoxy of, 1, 2

secular study of, 5

Wagner on, 91

WTS critique of, 99

Dominionism, 36–39

Dr. Rodney Howard Browne, 90

 

Edward Irving

dispensationalism, 21

on the Letters in Revelation, 21

Enlightenment, 71

and apologetics, 71

and Renaissance, xvii

presumption of, 28, 40

private vs. public, xv

epistemology, 6, 9, 45, 49, 53, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 113, 120, 146, 148

“common grace”, 147

and pluralism, 108

and postmodernism, 14

and Van Til, 76

at Princeton, 74

at WTS, 109

commonsense realism, 74

externalism, 74

faith vs. reason, 6

natural law, 109

Plantinga, Reformed, 74

Princeton, commonsense realism, 52

situational, 147

Thomas Reid, 75

eschatology, 36–39, 145

“realized”, 18

amillennialism, 13, 38

Augustine, 13

classical premillennialist, 100

definition, 11

dispensationalism, 24

Jewish, 19

Joachim of Fiore, 30

Origen, 15

postmillenialism, 34

postmillennial, 27

postmillennialism, 26

Reconstructionist, 83

Reconstructionist, criticism of, 95

Rushdoony, 39

Warfield, 17, 31

Eschatology and Dominionism, 36–39

evangelical, 1, 52, 108, 151–55

American, xiii, xv, 99

and Bahnsen, 82

and democracy, 99

and postmillennialism, 26

and Reconstruction, 86

and social action, xx

black, xix

churches, 116, 127

consciousness, 87, 101

conservative, 81

D Martyn Lloyd Jones, 112, 143

dispensationalism, 24

doctrine, 121

dominionism, 111, 112

eschatology, 59

Huntism, 96, 105

leaders, 88

neo-evangelical, 97, 106

philosophy, 60

politics, 80, 93, 115

Reformed churches, 142

Reformed Theology, 3

social gospel, 128

theologians, 42

  1. fundamentalist, 4
  2. neo-orthodoxy, 73
  3. Reconstruction, 81

evangelical, 3

evangelicalism, 151, 152, 154, 155

and dominionism, 1, 2, 92, 96

and fundamentalism, 48

and social action, 37, 97, 142

conservative, 3

dominionism , criticism of, 105

dominionism , criticism of, 108

dominionism, criticism of, 106

mainstream, 111

neoevangelicalism, 99, 105

post-evangelicalism, 151

 

Faith in the public square

Barack Obama, xix

George Bush, xix

Ronald Reagan, xix

Faith in the public square

Jimmy Carter, xix

Francis Schaeffer, 88

Christian Manifesto, 6

popular apologist, 88

freedom

and Palestinian fighters, 148

and repentance, 153

and Rorty, 120

and theonomy, 98

Christian, 114

political, 7, 138

religious, and society, 132

religious, Cromwell, 161

religious, Roger Williams, 163

religious, US, 139

religious, vs.toleration, 69

Western traditions of, 148

fundamentalism, xv, xvii, 37, 51

and Barthianism, 51

and dominionism, 1, 2

and James Barr, 3

and reconstructionism, 88

and revivalism, 9

as a sociological category, 4

as populism, 51

Fundamentalism project, 4

influence of, 22

  1. science, 48

Fundamentalism

James Barr, 48

fundamentalist, xviii, 1, 2, 4, 7, 22, 31, 51, 52, 87, 111, 116, 124, 125, 147

 

Gary North

and Rushdoony, 81

and the Tyler Reconstructionists, 85

Bahnsen’s criticism of, 98

Germany

and Nietzsche, 49

National Socialism, 49

Nazi economics, Lord Keynes, 49

 

Hal Lindsey

and imminent return, 156

and the Rapture, 21

on postmillennialism, 95

humanism, 4, 8

and modernism, 53

and Rushdoony, 107

Christian, 36

dominionism, as a response to, 60

post-WWII, 50

secular-, 51, 52, 88, 116

US, 68

  1. Christianity, 70

Huss, 121, 139

 

Islam

and mass immigration, 98

as a rejection of democracy, 98

as a worldview, 99

in the US, 91

in the West, 116, 149

radical, 48

 

Jerry Falwell, 6

John Nelson Darby

and dispensationalism, 104

Plymouth Brethren, 21

 

Kant, 73

on Religion, 73

reason and faith, 73

Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 22, 90

Kenneth E. Hagin, 22, 90

Kenneth Hagin, 90

Kingdom Now, 90, 93, 95, 145, 146, 147

and Gerald Coates, xiii

kingdom of God

ambassadors of, 159

and amillennialism, 32, 33, 35

and Augustine, 31

and British liberals, 29

and Christian culture, 33

and earthly citizenship, 115

and neoevangelism, 96

and parousia, 122, 131

and postmillennialism, 30, 36, 39

and power evangelism, 91

and sociopolitical action, 122, 144

and the Law of Moses, 110

and the Millenium, 32

and the Social Gospel, 62

as the Messianic kingdom, 36

Coming on Earth, 156, 157, 159

meaning of, 118

Rushdoony on, 63

  1. evangelism, 90

Warfield on, 38

Knox, 126, 139, 171

Koine, 11

Kuyper

and amillennialism, 12

and antithesis, 72

and Colson, 107

and J Gresham Machen, 124

and modernity, xviii

and neocalvinism, xviii

and pluralism, 97

and Rushdoony, 97

and Van Til, 72

at Princeton, xix

Free University of Amsterdam, 107, 124

on Nietzsche, 49

sacred vs. secular, 124

sphere sovereignty, 67

 

liberty, 89

1st Amendment, 61

and conservatism, 62

and John Dewey, 61

civil, 132

in COVID, 122, 142

individual, 130

of conscience, 114

religious, 143

Renaissance, xvii

self-defense, 138

US, 139

liberty:, 69

Lloyd-Jones, 3, 5, 52, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 139, 141, 169

Luther, 123

and amillennialism, 13

and antisemitism, 102

and Augustine, 31

and civil disobedience, 132

and Erasmus, human reason, 72

and human reason, 72

and political involvement, 142, 159

and postmillennialism, 21, 40, 105

and Reformed Theology, 84, 109

and The Reformers, Wycliffe, Huss, Calvin, 121

on the Book of James, and canonicity, 84

  1. Anabaptism, 134

 

Melanchthon, 13

modernism, 43, 170

and Abraham Kuyper, xviii

and postmillennialism, 28

and postmodernism, 53, 56

and totalitarianism, 52

Christian reactions to, xviii

Nazism, Communism, 54, 57

  1. modernity, 43

modernism, 5

mysticism

and amillennialism, 38, 40

and dispensationalism, 40

and modern eschatology, 36

and premillennialism, 36

Jewish, 158

prophetic, 159

 

New Atheism, 48, 49

and scientism, 48

North

700 Club, 99

 

Oliver Cromwell, 140, 161

 

Paul

And Agrippa, 115

and Peter, 133, 157

and Timothy, 25

as Roman citizen, 115

before Festus, 140

Eschatology, 115

gospel of, 153

letters to the Corinthians, 122

on conscience, 152

on intercession for rulers, 133

on Scripture, 127

on taxes, 141

on Truth, 120

parousia—Return of the Lord, 157

Pope John II, 65

Romans 13, 132

spirit, soul and body, 122

Spiritual warfare, xi

vs James, 84

Pentecostal, vii, xv, xx, 1, 22, 87, 90, 118, 151

“speaking in tongues”, 26

and dominionism, 147

and Reconstructionism, 87, 92, 106

and reform movements, 100

churches, 89

denominations, 90

neo-Pentecostal, 108, 151

Pentecostalism, xi, 22, 87, 90, 158

and Reconstructionism, 89–92

Plato

and early Christian thought, xvii

and Western philosophy, 74

political philosophy, xx, 112

and dominionism, 142

and Landa Cope, 127

and the English Civil War, 161

and the Gospel, 116

and the Judeo-Christian assumption, 119

and theonomy, 148

problems with, 117

relevant scriptures, 133

positivism, 18, 43, 44, 45

and naturalism, 48

and physicalism, 46

and science, 19

and The Vienna Circle, A.J. Ayer, 44

logical and paleo-, 43

Quine’s rebuttal of, 45

postmillennialism, 8, 25–36, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 36, 39

and Augustinianism, 30

and Calvin, 106

and Daniel Whitby, 96

and Greg Bahnsen, 104

and Joachim of Fiore, 21

and modernism, 28

and preterism, 35

and Princeton, 38

and Rauschenbusch, 63

and Reconstructionism, 104

and Walvoord, 103

and Warfield, 3, 31

conservative, 30, 31, 40

criticism of, 95

critique of, 27

liberal, 29

psychology of, 39

view of the Church, 16, 33

  1. amillennialism, 17, 27, 28
  2. premillennialism, 32

postmodernism, 43, 57

and Art, 53

and marxism, critical theory, 56

and neo-marxism, 57

and Nietzsche, 55

and postmodernity, 43

and Rorty, 55

and the West, 54

criticism of, 53

paralogicism, 56

philosophical, 14, 53

  1. modernism, 57

Postmodernism, 5359

premillennialism, 8, 14, 19–25, 20, 22, 23, 24, 37

and Christian victory, 40

and Reconstructionism, 100

and social action, 104

as heterodox, 156

classical, primitive, 40, 100, 104

modern, dispensational, 100, 104, 156

Premillennialism, 19–25

Protestant

churches, and the charismatics, 23

convergence, 87

dispensationalists, 33

dissent, 140

Enlightenment, xvii

hegemony, 107

orthodoxy, 71

Pentecostals, 89

revolutionaries, 161

thought, 6

tradition of  political involvement, 146

US churches, 87

protestantism, 51

  1. Catholicism, xiv

Protestantism

and Augustinianism, 6

and Rushdoony, 34

Scottish, English, 163

state protestantism, 162

Puritanism

and egalitarianism, 161

and Roger Williams, 163

and the US founding, 139

English, 140

Scots vs. English, 161

Westminster Confession, 126

 

rapture, xii, xiii, 21, 24, 32, 33, 37, 96, 157

1948 reformation of the state of Israel, 97

88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988, 157

Antichrist, 133

Armageddon, 101

Chuck Missler, 158

Daniel’s 70th Week, 22

dispensationalism, 156

Hal Lindsey, 101

Jerusalem, 158

Jonathan Cahn, 158

Joshua Mhlakela, xiii

Left Behind, 159

Pastor Ade Abraham, xiii

Pastor Metuh, xiii

pre, post, mid Tribulation, 11

Rev 4

1, 22

Second Coming, 115

reason

“Darwin’s Doubt”, 48

and apologia, xvi, 121

and early modern period, 28

and marxism, nazism, 50

and moral significance, 128

and natural law, evidentialism, 147

and naturalism, 48

and postmodernism, 53

and rationality, 53

and science, xvii

and subjection, 136

and The Holocaust, 54

and Van Til, 74

autonomous, unaided, 71

autonomy vs. theonomy, 76

Christian view of, 40

Enlightenment view of, 40

faith, the foundation of, 58

in Aquinas, Augustine, 6

in Plantinga, 58

in Renaissance, Enlightentment, xvii

in Sartre, 128

Kant’s view of, 73

practical, ethical, 14

Reformation critique of, 72

Reformation vs. Aquinas, 72

unregenerate, 72

  1. faith, 6

Reconstructionism, 42, 59, 66, 77, 81–87, 81, 83, 85, 86, 93, 94, 100, 103, 146, 168, 173

“Federal Vision”, 84

“Fifth Wave” churches, 91

and Christianity Today, 99

and democracy, 106

and fundamentalism, 88

and Gary North, 86, 87

and Greg Bahnsen, 81

and Jimmy Swaggart, 106

and neo-evangelicalism, 105

and premillennialism, 100

and Premillennialism, 95

and Theonomy, 81

and Wagner, 91

Kingdom Now!, 95

theonomy, 99

wider influence of, 87, 111

reform

Anabaptism, Radical Reformation, 134

and fundamentalism, 116

and the WEA, WMC, 140

political, 79, 117

political, sociological, xix, 17, 27, 132, 145

Puritanism, 163

Reconstructionism, 92

sociological, 79, 100, 107

sociological, political, 108, 116

Reformation, xvi, xvii, xxiv, 19, 31, 100, 148

and Catholic scholarship, xvii

and eschatology, 21

and Kuyper, 72

and scientific progress, 121

and socio-political involvement, 159

and the vocations, xviii, 105

as Augustinian, 17

Calvinistic, 36

churches, denominational, 38

extended influence of, 142

Kuyper, neocalvinism, 72

logic of salvation, 121

on papist violence, 102

radical, Anabaptist, 102, 134

relation to Renaissance, xvii

  1. Aquinas, 72
  2. Enlightenment, 71

reformed

communion, 67

Reformed

Denominations, 13, 25, 75, 85, 92

Dutch Reformed, 125

Presbyterianism, 87

Seminaries, 82, 94

Theology, xi, xviii, xx, 3, 6, 7, 13, 26, 52, 74, 75, 76, 83, 84, 87, 88, 95, 103, 109, 110, 111, 112, 126, 127, 134, 142, 145, 146, 147

Renaissance, 19

French, German, Jewish, xvii

origins of, xvii

revivalism

Charles Finney, xviii

Revivalism, 9, 37, 90, 116

and social action, 37

Rhema

and Pentecostalism, 90

Rhema Bible Training Center, 22

Roe vs. Wade, 68

and religious conservatives, 89

and religious conservatives, xix

reversal, 68

Rushdoony, xix, 9, 26, 39, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 76–79, 76, 81

700 Club, 99

and American conservatism, 62

and American conservatism, 69

and American history, 107

and amillennialism, 38

and biblical law, 79

and charismatic Christianity, 87, 91

and controversy, 93

and dispensationalism, 37

and Gary North, 85, 86, 87, 107

and Greg Bahnsen’s Theonomy, 82, 110

and Kuyper, 107

and postmillennialism, 104

and premillennialism, 40

and the Social Gospel, 63, 79

and theonomy, 76, 77, 81, 92, 98, 109

and Van Til, 76, 125

as a development of Van Til, 76

as Reformed, Orthodox Presbyterian, 95

Chalcedon Foundation, 85

Christianity Today, 99

criticism of, 97

ecclesiology, 67

eschatology, 40

influence of, 86, 106, 108, 145

Institutes, 78, 81, 126

Mark Rushdoony on his father, 62

on economics, 49

on reason, 40, 45

on science, 43

philosophy of science, 71

postmillennialism, 24, 34

Reconstructionism, xix, 88, 146

Rutherford Institute, 89

sociological reform, 79, 110

 

science, 48

and ‘brute’ facts, 71

and Auguste Comte, 43

and culture, xi, xiii

and Kuyper, 73, 124

and non-science, verificationism, 45

and Paul Feyerabend, 46

and postmodernity, 57

and Quine on empiricism, 45

and religion, 44

and the Enlightenment, xv

and Thomas Kuhn, 46

and worldview, 49

Christians in, 107

evolutionism, 28

medieval, 121

naturalism, 47

naturalism, Darwinism, 48

positivism, 19

public perception of, 49

Renaissance, Enlightenment, xvii

scientism, 46

scientism and Bertrand Russell, 44

theology as a, 71

theology as a, 5, 71

tranny of, 46

  1. religion, 48
  2. scientism, 8

Science, 4349

scientism, 8

and Auguste Comte, 43

and evolutionary science, 42

and logical postivism, 44

and New Atheism, 48

and Paul Feyerabend, 46

Scripture, 4, 15, 168

and allegory, 13, 17

and allegory, existentialism, 51

and Calvin, 114

and Christian ethics, 11

and COVID, xv

and D Martyn Lloyd Jones, 114

and Darwinism, 42, 51

and postevangelicalism, 154

and postmillennialism, 35, 36, 101

and premillennialist hermeneutics, 23

and relativism, 118

and slavery, 137

and socialism, 64

and sphere sovereignty, 67

and theocracy, 129

and theology, 123

authority of, 3, 123

canonicity, 155

Christian resistance, 136

continuity of covenants, xiii

dominion mandate, 78

enduring principles of, 110

God of Love vs. God of Justice, 154

in covenant theology, 35, 110, 131

in Machen, 126

in Machen vs. fundamentalism, 124

in Rushdoony, 76, 79

in Van Til, 73, 75

inerrancy and infallibility, 52

interpretation of, 2, 117

Peter vs. Paul, 133

political patterns in, 137

political theology, 132–42

promises of, 40

restitution, punishment, 128

status of, 2, 121

  1. secularism, xvi

sphere sovereignty, xviii

and dominion theology, 108

and Rushdoony, 67

and Van Til, xix

Kuyper, 107

Stark, 96, 101, 117, 162

strongholds

spiritual, mental, xi

spiritual, mental, xii

Supreme Court, 60, 68, 88, 89

 

theocracy, xiv

and ancient Israel, 143

and Rushdoony, 107

controversy regarding, 112

definition of, 129

  1. democracy, 130
  2. representative government, 79

theonomy, 9, 76, 77, 82, 95, 110, 127

and Greg Bahnsen, 81–83, 94, 98, 110, 126, 127

and J Gresham Machen, 109

and Mosaic Law, 79

and neo-evangelicalism, 97

and political ethics, 129

and Rushdoony, 76–79

as Chrstian ethics, 128

as Reformed Theology, 109, 126

criticism of, 108, 111

Rushdoony, Van Til, 76

  1. legalism, 108

Westminster Theological Seminary, 99

Westminster’s critique of, 111

Trump

and Christian Nationalism, 148

and response of Christians, xiv, 119

and shared values, 119

and socialism, 125

and US Catholic Church, 65

European evangelical response, 93

Federal vs. State authority, 68

prophetic critique of, 117

the Trump problem, 116, 117

 

Van Til, 72, 76, 126

and antithesis, 72

and Bahnsen, friendship with, 76

and Bahnsen, North, 81

and Machen, WTS, 125

and Machen, WTS, 125

and sphere sovereignty, xix

and the apologetic task, 74

and the Schaeffers, 88

and WTS, xix

applied by Rushdoony, 76

Bahnsen as successor, 109

Bahnsen as successor, 82

Bahnsen on, 98

Bahnsen, Rushdoony, 110

brute facts, 71

certainty, 75

Christian apologetics, 9, 71

Christian ethics, 109

factuality, 73

on Arminianism, 75

on Barth, neoorthodoxy, 73

presuppositionalism, 88, 98

the logic of salvation, 75

truth, 74

  1. Plantinga, 74

WTS, 99

Van Til vs. Kuyper, apologetic task, 72

verification principle, 44

Quine’s critique of, 44, 45

Vienna Circle

and logical positivism, 44

and religious experience, 43

 

Wagner, 90, 91

and dominionism, 112

and John Wimber, 91

and Reconstructionist, 93

NAR, 146

Reformer’s Pledge, 93

Westminster Confession

and God’s Law, 94

Puritanism, 126

Whisenant, 157

Whitby, Daniel, 28, 96

Wittgenstein, 6

and logical positivism, 44

and The Tractatus, 57

on philosophy, 14

Word of Faith, 22, 90, 100, 145, 146, 147

and dominionism, 101

worldview, 113

and dominionism, 154

and rationality, 49

and the apologetic task, 73

and The Reformation, xvii

Christian, 49

in Machen, 124

non-Christian, 73

Wycliffe, 121, 139

 

YWAM, xi, xxvi, 90, 110, 156, 160

 

Index of Names

 

Aquinas, Thomas, xvii, 6, 13, 72

Aristotle, xvii, 13, 74

Augustine of Hippo, xvii, 6, 13, 16, 27, 31, 33, 47, 105, 126, 165, 170, 172, 174

Ayer, A.J., 43, 44, 165

Bahnsen, Greg L., 13, 24, 40, 51, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 92, 94, 98, 100, 103, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 125, 126, 127, 146, 165, 174

Barr, James, 3, 4, 31, 37, 48, 52, 125

Barth, Karl, 73, 154, 175

Beza, Theodore, 126

Bush, George, xix, 175

Cahn, Jonathan, 158, 166

Calvin, Jean, xvii, 13, 21, 26, 31, 40, 51, 72, 84, 102, 104, 105, 106, 109, 114, 121, 126, 134, 142, 159, 165, 166, 168

Carter, Jimmy, xix

Charles II, King, 161, 162

Coates, Gerald, xiii, 108, 147, 166, 167

Colson, Chuck, 97, 106, 107, 108, 167

Comte, Auguste, 43

Cope, Landa, xi, xiii, 33, 51, 78, 84, 90, 91, 110, 116, 123, 127, 128, 131, 147, 148, 156, 160, 167

Copeland, Kenneth, 22, 90

Craig, William Lane, 6, 71

Cromwell, Oliver, 134, 140, 161, 162

Darby, John Nelson, 21, 104

Darwin, 48, 50

Dawkins, Richard, 48, 50, 171

DeMar, Gary, 60, 65, 66, 76, 82, 83, 85, 87, 97, 106, 146, 167, 172

Dennett, Daniel, 48

Dewey, John, 61, 63, 125, 167

Erasmus, Desiderius, 72

Falwell, Jerry, 6, 106, 112, 167

Feyerabend, Paul, 46, 167

Finney, Charles, xviii, 111, 116, 142

Flew, Anthony, 47, 167

Gould, Stephen J., 50, 167

Graham, Billy, 99, 152, 167

Hagin, Kenneth E., 22, 90

Harris, Sam, 48

Hitchens, Christopher, 48

House, Tommy, 86, 95, 97, 98, 100

Howard-Browne, Rodney, 142

Hunt, Dave, 96, 99, 100, 105, 106, 108, 167, 168

Huss, John, 121, 139

Ice, Tommy, 4, 35, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 105, 168

Irving, Edward, 21

Joachim of Fiore, 21, 30, 31, 165, 168

Kant, Immanuel, 73, 168

Keynes, John Maynard, 49

Kirk, Charlie, xiv, 149

Knox, John, 126, 139, 171

Kuhn, Thomas, 46, 169

Kuyper, Abraham, viii, xviii, xix, 12, 49, 67, 72, 73, 97, 107, 124, 166, 169

Lindsey, Hal, 2, 21, 95, 101, 102, 103, 105, 156, 160, 169, 172, 173

Lloyd-Jones, 3, 5, 52, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 139, 141, 169

Louis XIV, King, 163

Luther, Martin, 13, 21, 31, 40, 72, 84, 102, 105, 109, 121, 123, 132, 134, 142, 159, 168, 169

Machen, J Gresham, xviii, xix, 3, 52, 71, 109, 111, 124, 125, 126, 142, 170

Mackie, John Lesley, 47, 170

Melanchthon, Phillip, 13

Missler, Chuck, 21, 24, 61, 158, 160, 171

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 49, 55, 171

North, Gary, vii, xx, xxiii, 5, 6, 8, 24, 36, 60, 65, 76, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 92, 95, 97, 98, 99, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 136, 146, 157, 170, 171, 172, 173

Obama, Barack, xix, 119

Origen of Alexandria, 15

Plantinga, Alvin, 5, 6, 47, 48, 74, 75, 128, 170, 172, 174

Quine, Willard V. O., 44, 45, 46, 71, 74, 172

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 18, 37, 63, 64, 65, 172

Reagan, Ronald, xix, 29

Reid, Thomas, 74

Rorty, Richard, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 120, 173

Rushdoony, Mark, 62

Rushdoony, Rousas, xix, 2, 9, 24, 26, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 125, 126, 145, 146, 157, 171, 173, 174

Russell, Bertrand, 43, 44, 173

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 128

Schaeffer, Francis, 6, 88, 89, 112, 165, 167

Stark, Emma, 96, 101, 117, 162, 174

Swaggart, Jimmy, 65, 106

Van Til, Cornelius, xix, xxv, 9, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82, 88, 98, 99, 109, 110, 125, 126, 165, 167, 173, 174

Wagner, C. Peter, 6, 7, 42, 90, 91, 92, 93, 99, 112, 175

Warfield, B. B., 3, 17, 28, 31, 33, 38, 51, 52, 175

Whisenant, Edgar C., 157, 175

Whitby, Daniel, 28, 29, 96

Williams, Roger, 163

Wimber, John, 91, 92

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 6, 14, 44, 57, 175

Wycliffe, John, 121, 139, 173

 

 

“Holy Roman Emperor”, 138

 

amillennialism, 8, 12–19, 12, 15, 16, 17, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39

and allegory, 13, 15

and Augustinianism, 15, 17

and liberalism, 29

and pietism, 17

and Princeton, 36

and Warfield, 28, 31

Augustinianism, 13

classical, 18, 40

conservative, 18

contemporary, 19, 35

in Reformed theology, 25

liberal, 18

modern, 101

Rushdoony on, 34

view of the Church, 16

  1. postmillennialism, 28

Antichrist, 20, 22, 24, 37, 133, 158

Aristotle

and Aquinas, xvii, 13

and Reformed Theology, 74

Augustine

and Calvin, 126

and Catholicism, xvii, 13

and Manichaeanism, 33

and postmillennialism, 33, 105

and the chialists, 16

dualism, 27

numerus perfectus, City of God, 16

relation to Reformation, 31

relation to Reformation, 13

  1. Aquinas, 6

Augustinian, 13

amillennialism, 13, 16, 17, 21

eschatology, failure of, 27, 30

philosophy, 7

theology, assumption of, 6

theology, dualism, 33

Augustinianism

and natural theology, 6

and The Reformation, 13

eschatology, 30

eschatology, failure of, 17

authority

1 Tim 2

1, 134

abuse of (COVID), 119

and God’s Law, 109

and intercession, 133

Church, 67

family, 64

federal vs state (US), 60

in Hunt, 100

limits of, 138

limits of State, 134

messianic, 35

of demon spirits, xii

papal, xix, 162

Resurrection, 131

Romans 13, 135

scriptural, 3

terms of exercise of, 137

the Father’s, 20

autonomy

and The Enlightenment, xvii

and Van Til, 76

in the Roman Empire, 136

political, 139

  1. theonomy, 77, 127

 

Bible, 123

and dispensationalism, 35

and evangelicalism, 3

and Luther, 84

and philosophy, 113

and postmillennial hermeneutics, 103

and postmillennialism, 14

and replacement theology, 13

and The Parousia, 115

and theonomy, 84

as literature, 14, 135

authority of, 73

hermeneutics, 2, 127, 147

in US schools, 69

independent scholars of, 23

Scofield Reference, 22

Business as a Mission, 93

 

Calvin

and amillennialism, 13

and Anabaptism, 134

and Augustine, 31

and Beza, Knox, Puritanism, 126

and human reason, 72

and philosophy, 114

and political involvement, 142, 159

and postmillennialism, 40, 105, 106

and premillennialism, 21

and Reformed Theology, 109

and The Reformers, Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, 121

as a tyrant, 105

as Renaissance scholar, xvii

cessationism, 26

on Papist violence, 102

on the Book of James, 84

Problem of Evil, 47

 

Catholic

and Charles II, 162

as degenerate, apostate, 72

charismatic, 23

Church, as an Ark, 33

hegemony, xiv, xvii, xix, 107, 162

Louis XIV, 163

NGOs, 65

rejection of Augustine, 13

scholarship, xvii

social teaching, 65

US bishops, 65

  1. Cromwell, 161
  2. Protestant thought, 6

Western Church, 12

Catholicism, 67

and the English Civil War, 163

eschatology, 13

  1. Protestantism, 6

Christian experience, xii, 8, 9

personal testimony, xi

Christian Nationalism, 5, 93, 146, 148

Christianity

“Christianity and Liberalism”, 125

and Dave Hunt, 96

and J G Machen, 124, 126

and politics, 130, 132

and Rushdoony, 79

and the professions, 108

and the State, 107

apologetics, xvi

Arminian, xviii, 75, 90

Barthianism, 51

Billy Graham, 99

charismatic, 87, 152

Christianity Today, 99, 106

conservative, 51, 81

dominionism, xx, 1, 4

evangelicalism, 3

fundamentalism, 2, 51

Hellenistic, 34

in the modern period, xvii

in the Public Square, xiv, xvi

neo-orthodoxy, 19

philosophy of, 121

Postevangelicalism, 151–55

postmillennial, 32

protestant, 151

‘quiet’, 7, 68, 155

Reconstructionism, 94

Reformed, 94

revivalism, 90

Roe vs Wade, 68

‘seeker sensitive’, 154

  1. humanism, 70
  2. secular humanism, 124

YouTube, xiii

Cope, Landa, xiii, 78, 90, 127, 156

and societal reformation, 131

and theonomy, 84, 127

cultural critique, 90, 116

on dispensationalism, 156

on scripture, 128, 131

YWAM, xi, 110

Cromwell, Oliver, 140, 161

 

Daniel, 24

Darby, John Nelson

and dispensationalism, 104

Plymouth Brethren, 21

dispensationalism, 26, 33, 40, 156

“Left Behind”, 159

and fundamentalism, 37

and mysticism, 36

and the Rapture, 21, 37, 156

and the Rapture, 157

as heterodox, 40, 104

as modern premillennialism, 100

as premillennialism, 28, 156

Daniel’s 70th Week, 22

hermeneutic tradition, 23

House, Ice, 105

in the 21st century, 158

origin of, 21

premillennialist criticism of, 104

  1. covenant theology, 35

doctrines of demons, xii, 25

dominion theology, 60–80

“making disciples”, 131

and amillennialism, 38

and Augustinianism, 6

and Catholicism, Protestantism, 6

and Christian ethics, xxi

and conservatism, 60

and different Christian traditions, 6

and eschatology, 11

and Hal Lindsey, 95

and J Gresham Machen, xix

and political involvement, 113–44

and postmillennialism, 39

and premillennialism, 37

and quiet Christians, 7

and R J Rushdoony, xix, 60–80

and Romans 13, 133

and the Millenium, 12

and the Reformation, xvi

and Theonomy, 77

and Van Til, 75

charismatic movement, xix

critiques of, 94–113

evangelicalism, 3, 4

fundamentalism, 1

growth of, 87

historical precursors of, 42–60

neopentecostalism, 108

political and social program, xii

secularism, 3

theocracy, 129

Wagner, 91

dominionism

and Dave Hunt, 96, 105

and evangelicalism, 2, 96, 101

and fundamentalism, 4, 7

and Gary North, 92

and Kingdom Now, 95

and neoevangelicalism, 108

and neo-evangelicalism, 105

and postmillennialism, 41

and premillennialism, Rapture, 11

and Reconstructionism, 146

and Rushdoony, 70

as a genus, 93

attacks on, 95

critique of, 111

critiques of, 9

effect on Pentecostal, Charismatic churches, 106

localized expressions of, 7

orthodoxy of, 1, 2

secular study of, 5

Wagner on, 91

WTS critique of, 99

Dominionism, 36–39

 

Enlightenment, 71

and apologetics, 71

and Renaissance, xvii

presumption of, 28, 40

private vs. public, xv

epistemology, 6, 9, 45, 49, 53, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 113, 120, 146, 148

“common grace”, 147

and pluralism, 108

and postmodernism, 14

and Van Til, 76

at Princeton, 74

at WTS, 109

commonsense realism, 74

externalism, 74

faith vs. reason, 6

natural law, 109

Plantinga, Reformed, 74

Princeton, commonsense realism, 52

situational, 147

Thomas Reid, 75

eschatology, 36–39, 145

“realized”, 18

amillennialism, 13, 38

Augustine, 13

classical premillennialist, 100

definition, 11

dispensationalism, 24

Jewish, 19

Joachim of Fiore, 30

Origen, 15

postmillenialism, 34

postmillennial, 27

postmillennialism, 26

Reconstructionist, 83

Reconstructionist, criticism of, 95

Rushdoony, 39

Warfield, 17, 31

Eschatology and Dominionism, 36–39

evangelical, 1, 52, 108, 151–55

American, xiii, xv, 99

and Bahnsen, 82

and democracy, 99

and postmillennialism, 26

and Reconstruction, 86

and social action, xx

black, xix

churches, 116, 127

consciousness, 87, 101

conservative, 81

D Martyn Lloyd Jones, 112, 143

dispensationalism, 24

doctrine, 121

dominionism, 111, 112

eschatology, 59

Huntism, 96, 105

leaders, 88

neo-evangelical, 97, 106

philosophy, 60

politics, 80, 93, 115

Reformed churches, 142

Reformed Theology, 3

social gospel, 128

theologians, 42

  1. fundamentalist, 4
  2. neo-orthodoxy, 73
  3. Reconstruction, 81

evangelical, 3

evangelicalism, 151, 152, 154, 155

and dominionism, 1, 2, 92, 96

and fundamentalism, 48

and social action, 37, 97, 142

conservative, 3

dominionism , criticism of, 105

dominionism , criticism of, 108

dominionism, criticism of, 106

mainstream, 111

neoevangelicalism, 99, 105

post-evangelicalism, 151

 

Faith in the public square

Barack Obama, xix

George Bush, xix

Ronald Reagan, xix

Faith in the public square

Jimmy Carter, xix

Falwell, Jerry, 6

Finney, Charles, 116

and political involvement, 142

and Wheaton college, xviii

Francis Schaeffer, 88

Christian Manifesto, 6

popular apologist, 88

freedom

and Palestinian fighters, 148

and repentance, 153

and Rorty, 120

and theonomy, 98

Christian, 114

political, 7, 138

religious, and society, 132

religious, Cromwell, 161

religious, Roger Williams, 163

religious, US, 139

religious, vs.toleration, 69

Western traditions of, 148

fundamentalism, xv, xvii, 37, 51

and Barthianism, 51

and dominionism, 1, 2

and James Barr, 3

and reconstructionism, 88

and revivalism, 9

as a sociological category, 4

as populism, 51

Fundamentalism project, 4

influence of, 22

  1. science, 48

Fundamentalism

James Barr, 48

fundamentalist, xviii, 1, 2, 4, 7, 22, 31, 51, 52, 87, 111, 116, 124, 125, 147

 

Germany

and Nietzsche, 49

National Socialism, 49

Nazi economics, Lord Keynes, 49

 

Hagin, Kenneth E., 22, 90

Howard Browne, Rodney, 90

humanism, 4, 8

and modernism, 53

and Rushdoony, 107

Christian, 36

dominionism, as a response to, 60

post-WWII, 50

secular-, 51, 52, 88, 116

US, 68

  1. Christianity, 70

Huss, 121, 139

 

Irving, Edward

dispensationalism, 21

on the Letters in Revelation, 21

Islam

and mass immigration, 98

as a rejection of democracy, 98

as a worldview, 99

in the US, 91

in the West, 116, 149

radical, 48

 

 

Kant, Immanuel, 73

on Religion, 73

reason and faith, 73

Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 22, 90

Kingdom Now, 90, 93, 95, 145, 146, 147

and Gerald Coates, xiii

kingdom of God

ambassadors of, 159

and amillennialism, 32, 33, 35

and Augustine, 31

and British liberals, 29

and Christian culture, 33

and earthly citizenship, 115

and neoevangelism, 96

and parousia, 122, 131

and postmillennialism, 30, 36, 39

and power evangelism, 91

and sociopolitical action, 122, 144

and the Law of Moses, 110

and the Millenium, 32

and the Social Gospel, 62

as the Messianic kingdom, 36

Coming on Earth, 156, 157, 159

meaning of, 118

Rushdoony on, 63

  1. evangelism, 90

Warfield on, 38

Kirk, Charlie, xiv, 149

Knox, John, 126, 139, 171

Koine, 11

Kuyper, Abraham,

and amillennialism, 12

and antithesis, 72

and Colson, 107

and J Gresham Machen, 124

and modernity, xviii

and neocalvinism, xviii

and pluralism, 97

and Rushdoony, 97

and Van Til, 72

at Princeton, xix

Free University of Amsterdam, 107, 124

on Nietzsche, 49

sacred vs. secular, 124

sphere sovereignty, 67

 

liberty, 89

1st Amendment, 61

and conservatism, 62

and John Dewey, 61

civil, 132

in COVID, 122, 142

individual, 130

of conscience, 114

religious, 143

Renaissance, xvii

self-defense, 138

US, 139

Lindsey, Hal

and imminent return, 156

and the Rapture, 21

on postmillennialism, 95

 

Lloyd-Jones, 3, 5, 52, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 139, 141, 169

Luther, 123

and amillennialism, 13

and antisemitism, 102

and Augustine, 31

and civil disobedience, 132

and Erasmus, human reason, 72

and human reason, 72

and political involvement, 142, 159

and postmillennialism, 21, 40, 105

and Reformed Theology, 84, 109

and The Reformers, Wycliffe, Huss, Calvin, 121

on the Book of James, and canonicity, 84

  1. Anabaptism, 134

 

Melanchthon, 13

modernism, 43, 170

and Abraham Kuyper, xviii

and postmillennialism, 28

and postmodernism, 53, 56

and totalitarianism, 52

Christian reactions to, xviii

Nazism, Communism, 54, 57

  1. modernity, 43

modernism, 5

mysticism

and amillennialism, 38, 40

and dispensationalism, 40

and modern eschatology, 36

and premillennialism, 36

Jewish, 158

prophetic, 159

 

New Atheism, 48, 49

and scientism, 48

North, Gary

700 Club, 99

and Rushdoony, 81

and the Tyler Reconstructionists, 85

Bahnsen’s criticism of, 98

 

Paul

And Agrippa, 115

and Peter, 133, 157

and Timothy, 25

as Roman citizen, 115

before Festus, 140

Eschatology, 115

gospel of, 153

letters to the Corinthians, 122

on conscience, 152

on intercession for rulers, 133

on Scripture, 127

on taxes, 141

on Truth, 120

parousia—Return of the Lord, 157

Pope John II, 65

Romans 13, 132

spirit, soul and body, 122

Spiritual warfare, xi

vs James, 84

Pentecostal, vii, xv, xx, 1, 22, 87, 90, 118, 151

“speaking in tongues”, 26

and dominionism, 147

and Reconstructionism, 87, 92, 106

and reform movements, 100

churches, 89

denominations, 90

neo-Pentecostal, 108, 151

Pentecostalism, xi, 22, 87, 90, 158

and Reconstructionism, 89–92

Plato

and early Christian thought, xvii

and Western philosophy, 74

political philosophy, xx, 112

and dominionism, 142

and Landa Cope, 127

and the English Civil War, 161

and the Gospel, 116

and the Judeo-Christian assumption, 119

and theonomy, 148

problems with, 117

relevant scriptures, 133

positivism, 18, 43, 44, 45

and naturalism, 48

and physicalism, 46

and science, 19

and The Vienna Circle, A.J. Ayer, 44

logical and paleo-, 43

Quine’s rebuttal of, 45

postmillennialism, 8, 25–36, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 36, 39

and Augustinianism, 30

and Calvin, 106

and Daniel Whitby, 96

and Greg Bahnsen, 104

and Joachim of Fiore, 21

and modernism, 28

and preterism, 35

and Princeton, 38

and Rauschenbusch, 63

and Reconstructionism, 104

and Walvoord, 103

and Warfield, 3, 31

conservative, 30, 31, 40

criticism of, 95

critique of, 27

liberal, 29

psychology of, 39

view of the Church, 16, 33

  1. amillennialism, 17, 27, 28
  2. premillennialism, 32

postmodernism, 43, 53–59

and Art, 53

and marxism, critical theory, 56

and neo-marxism, 57

and Nietzsche, 55

and postmodernity, 43

and Rorty, 55

and the West, 54

criticism of, 53

paralogicism, 56

philosophical, 14, 53

  1. modernism, 57

premillennialism, 8, 14, 19–25, 20, 22, 23, 24, 37

and Christian victory, 40

and Reconstructionism, 100

and social action, 104

as heterodox, 156

classical, primitive, 40, 100, 104

modern, dispensational, 100, 104, 156

Premillennialism, 19–25

Protestant

churches, and the charismatics, 23

convergence, 87

dispensationalists, 33

dissent, 140

Enlightenment, xvii

hegemony, 107

orthodoxy, 71

Pentecostals, 89

revolutionaries, 161

thought, 6

tradition of  political involvement, 146

US churches, 87

protestantism, 51

  1. Catholicism, xiv

Protestantism

and Augustinianism, 6

and Rushdoony, 34

Scottish, English, 163

state protestantism, 162

Puritanism

and egalitarianism, 161

and Roger Williams, 163

and the US founding, 139

English, 140

Scots vs. English, 161

Westminster Confession, 126

 

rapture, xii, xiii, 21, 24, 32, 33, 37, 96, 157

1948 reformation of the state of Israel, 97

88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988, 157

Antichrist, 133

Armageddon, 101

Chuck Missler, 158

Daniel’s 70th Week, 22

dispensationalism, 156

Hal Lindsey, 101

Jerusalem, 158

Jonathan Cahn, 158

Joshua Mhlakela, xiii

Left Behind, 159

Pastor Ade Abraham, xiii

Pastor Metuh, xiii

pre, post, mid Tribulation, 11

Rev 4

1, 22

Second Coming, 115

reason

“Darwin’s Doubt”, 48

and apologia, xvi, 121

and early modern period, 28

and marxism, nazism, 50

and moral significance, 128

and natural law, evidentialism, 147

and naturalism, 48

and postmodernism, 53

and rationality, 53

and science, xvii

and subjection, 136

and The Holocaust, 54

and Van Til, 74

autonomous, unaided, 71

autonomy vs. theonomy, 76

Christian view of, 40

Enlightenment view of, 40

faith, the foundation of, 58

in Aquinas, Augustine, 6

in Plantinga, 58

in Renaissance, Enlightentment, xvii

in Sartre, 128

Kant’s view of, 73

practical, ethical, 14

Reformation critique of, 72

Reformation vs. Aquinas, 72

unregenerate, 72

  1. faith, 6

Reconstructionism, 42, 59, 66, 77, 81–87, 81, 83, 85, 86, 93, 94, 100, 103, 146, 168, 173

“Federal Vision”, 84

“Fifth Wave” churches, 91

and Christianity Today, 99

and democracy, 106

and fundamentalism, 88

and Gary North, 86, 87

and Greg Bahnsen, 81

and Jimmy Swaggart, 106

and neo-evangelicalism, 105

and premillennialism, 100

and Premillennialism, 95

and Theonomy, 81

and Wagner, 91

Kingdom Now!, 95

theonomy, 99

wider influence of, 87, 111

reform

Anabaptism, Radical Reformation, 134

and fundamentalism, 116

and the WEA, WMC, 140

political, 79, 117

political, sociological, xix, 17, 27, 132, 145

Puritanism, 163

Reconstructionism, 92

sociological, 79, 100, 107

sociological, political, 108, 116

Reformation, xvi, xvii, xxiv, 19, 31, 100, 148

and Catholic scholarship, xvii

and eschatology, 21

and Kuyper, 72

and scientific progress, 121

and socio-political involvement, 159

and the vocations, xviii, 105

as Augustinian, 17

Calvinistic, 36

churches, denominational, 38

extended influence of, 142

Kuyper, neocalvinism, 72

logic of salvation, 121

on papist violence, 102

radical, Anabaptist, 102, 134

relation to Renaissance, xvii

  1. Aquinas, 72
  2. Enlightenment, 71

reformed

communion, 67

Reformed

Denominations, 13, 25, 75, 85, 92

Dutch Reformed, 125

Presbyterianism, 87

Seminaries, 82, 94

Theology, xi, xviii, xx, 3, 6, 7, 13, 26, 52, 74, 75, 76, 83, 84, 87, 88, 95, 103, 109, 110, 111, 112, 126, 127, 134, 142, 145, 146, 147

Renaissance, 19

French, German, Jewish, xvii

origins of, xvii

revivalism

Charles Finney, xviii

Revivalism, 9, 37, 90, 116

and social action, 37

Rhema

and Pentecostalism, 90

Rhema Bible Training Center, 22

Roe vs. Wade, 68

and religious conservatives, 89

and religious conservatives, xix

reversal, 68

Rushdoony, Rousas, xix, 9, 26, 39, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 76–79, 76, 81

700 Club, 99

and American conservatism, 62

and American conservatism, 69

and American history, 107

and amillennialism, 38

and biblical law, 79

and charismatic Christianity, 87, 91

and controversy, 93

and dispensationalism, 37

and Gary North, 85, 86, 87, 107

and Greg Bahnsen’s Theonomy, 82, 110

and Kuyper, 107

and postmillennialism, 104

and premillennialism, 40

and the Social Gospel, 63, 79

and theonomy, 76, 77, 81, 92, 98, 109

and Van Til, 76, 125

as a development of Van Til, 76

as Reformed, Orthodox Presbyterian, 95

Chalcedon Foundation, 85

Christianity Today, 99

criticism of, 97

ecclesiology, 67

eschatology, 40

influence of, 86, 106, 108, 145

Institutes, 78, 81, 126

Mark Rushdoony on his father, 62

on economics, 49

on reason, 40, 45

on science, 43

philosophy of science, 71

postmillennialism, 24, 34

Reconstructionism, xix, 88, 146

Rutherford Institute, 89

sociological reform, 79, 110

 

Russell, Bertrand

analytic philosophy, 43

and logical positivism, 44

Problems of Philosophy, 43

 

science, 43–49

and ‘brute’ facts, 71

and Auguste Comte, 43

and culture, xi, xiii

and Kuyper, 73, 124

and non-science, verificationism, 45

and Paul Feyerabend, 46

and postmodernity, 57

and Quine on empiricism, 45

and religion, 44

and the Enlightenment, xv

and Thomas Kuhn, 46

and worldview, 49

Christians in, 107

evolutionism, 28

medieval, 121

naturalism, 47

naturalism, Darwinism, 48

positivism, 19

public perception of, 49

Renaissance, Enlightenment, xvii

scientism, 46

scientism and Bertrand Russell, 44

theology as a, 71

theology as a, 5, 71

tranny of, 46

  1. religion, 48
  2. scientism, 8

scientism, 8

and Auguste Comte, 43

and evolutionary science, 42

and logical postivism, 44

and New Atheism, 48

and Paul Feyerabend, 46

Scripture, 4, 15, 168

and allegory, 13, 17

and allegory, existentialism, 51

and Calvin, 114

and Christian ethics, 11

and COVID, xv

and D Martyn Lloyd Jones, 114

and Darwinism, 42, 51

and postevangelicalism, 154

and postmillennialism, 35, 36, 101

and premillennialist hermeneutics, 23

and relativism, 118

and slavery, 137

and socialism, 64

and sphere sovereignty, 67

and theocracy, 129

and theology, 123

authority of, 3, 123

canonicity, 155

Christian resistance, 136

continuity of covenants, xiii

dominion mandate, 78

enduring principles of, 110

God of Love vs. God of Justice, 154

in covenant theology, 35, 110, 131

in Machen, 126

in Machen vs. fundamentalism, 124

in Rushdoony, 76, 79

in Van Til, 73, 75

inerrancy and infallibility, 52

interpretation of, 2, 117

Peter vs. Paul, 133

political patterns in, 137

political theology, 132–42

promises of, 40

restitution, punishment, 128

status of, 2, 121

  1. secularism, xvi

sphere sovereignty, xviii

and dominion theology, 108

and Rushdoony, 67

and Van Til, xix

Kuyper, 107

Stark, 96, 101, 117, 162

strongholds

spiritual, mental, xi

spiritual, mental, xii

Supreme Court, 60, 68, 88, 89

 

theocracy, xiv

and ancient Israel, 143

and Rushdoony, 107

controversy regarding, 112

definition of, 129

  1. democracy, 130
  2. representative government, 79

theonomy, 9, 76, 77, 82, 95, 110, 127

and Greg Bahnsen, 81–83, 94, 98, 110, 126, 127

and J Gresham Machen, 109

and Mosaic Law, 79

and neo-evangelicalism, 97

and political ethics, 129

and Rushdoony, 76–79

as Chrstian ethics, 128

as Reformed Theology, 109, 126

criticism of, 108, 111

Rushdoony, Van Til, 76

  1. legalism, 108

Westminster Theological Seminary, 99

Westminster’s critique of, 111

Trump, President Donald

and Christian Nationalism, 148

and response of Christians, xiv, 119

and shared values, 119

and socialism, 125

and US Catholic Church, 65

European evangelical response, 93

Federal vs. State authority, 68

prophetic critique of, 117

the Trump problem, 116, 117

 

Van Til, Cornelius 72, 76, 126

and antithesis, 72

and Bahnsen, friendship with, 76

and Bahnsen, North, 81

and Machen, WTS, 125

and Machen, WTS, 125

and sphere sovereignty, xix

and the apologetic task, 74

and the Schaeffers, 88

and WTS, xix

applied by Rushdoony, 76

Bahnsen as successor, 82, 109

Bahnsen on, 98

Bahnsen, Rushdoony, 110

brute facts, 71

certainty, 75

Christian apologetics, 9, 71

Christian ethics, 109

factuality, 73

on Arminianism, 75

on Barth, neoorthodoxy, 73

presuppositionalism, 88, 98

the logic of salvation, 75

truth, 74

  1. Plantinga, 74

WTS, 99

Van Til vs. Kuyper, apologetic task, 72

verification principle, 44

Quine’s critique of, 44, 45

Vienna Circle

and logical positivism, 44

and religious experience, 43

 

Wagner, 90, 91

and dominionism, 112

and John Wimber, 91

and Reconstructionist, 93

NAR, 146

Reformer’s Pledge, 93

Westminster Confession

and God’s Law, 94

Puritanism, 126

Whisenant, 157

Whitby, Daniel, 28, 96

Wittgenstein, 6

and logical positivism, 44

and The Tractatus, 57

on philosophy, 14

Word of Faith, 22, 90, 100, 145, 146, 147

and dominionism, 101

worldview, 113

and dominionism, 154

and rationality, 49

and the apologetic task, 73

and The Reformation, xvii

Christian, 49

in Machen, 124

non-Christian, 73

Wycliffe, John 121, 139

 

YWAM, xi, xxvi, 90, 110, 156, 160

 

Index of Scriptures

Exod 18:21–22   129

Lev 24:14–46     140

Psa 24:1 32

Dan 2:37           118

Dan 4:17           122

Isa 2:1–5           20

Isa 11–12           32

Isa 53                20

Matt 5:17          82

Matt 6:10          122

Matt 6:33          122

Matt 24:32–34   96n9, 157

Matt 28:18–20   122, 131

Mar 16:15         32

Luke 19:13–27   157

Luke 19:13        xiii

John 3:31          122

John 14:6          120

Acts 1:6–7         20, 130

Acts 4:19           xv

Acts 16:37         115

Acts 18:6           15

Acts 22:25         115

Acts 23:3           138

Acts 25:12         141

Acts 25:16         138

Rom 8:7            90

Rom 8:2            39, 90

Rom 9–11          122n32

Rom 9:17          122

Rom 13:1–7       135, 139, 139, 161

Rom 14:1–23     114

1 Cor 1:12         114

1 Cor 7: 26–35   115

1 Cor 12            26

2 Cor 10:4–5      xi

Gal 2:9              xv

Gal 4:9–11         78

Gal 6:15–16       32,

Eph 5:21           136

Eph 6:10–18      xi

Phil 3                120

Col 3:1–2          122

Col 4:1              137

1 Tim 2             133, 142

1 Tim 2:1          134

1 Tim 4:1          xii, 25

1 Tim 6:15         137

2 Tim 3:16         127

2 Tim 4:16         xvi, 121

1 and 2 Th         115

Heb 10:34         141

1 Pet 2              132

1 Pet 4:13          20

2 Pet 3:1–4        133

2 Pet 3:15          133

Rev 3                156

Rev 17:14          137

Rev 18–21         14, 137

Rev 19:16          137