…that thirty years ago I was rather involved in something called ‘Christian Reconstructionism’, which was similar in many ways, from a Calvinist point of view. I confess I don’t really…
…moved away from what the Reformed often called “pietism” and I like to call Great Commission Utilitarianism. I can testify that one reason I was captivated by Christian Reconstructionism in…
…cultivated at Fieldstead ever since. North was fairly sensible in those days; he got nuttier as he got older. The chief failure of Christian Reconstructionism was that they did not…
…second was my introduction to ‘Reconstructionism’ and my subsequent move beyond it. The third was my exposure to the writings of Francis Fukuyama. As a child, I attended Sunday School…
…about specific punishment for failure to tithe, or much about business and economics except condemning outright theft; no program of state-imposed redistribution. Therefore Reconstructionism acquired a position of combining a…