The Chalcedon problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the origins of Christian reconstructionism. From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2008| Author: Worthen, Molly | COPYRIGHT 2008 American Society of Church History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ACCORDING to the town criers of liberal American journalism, readers must wake up and do something. Hide your children--there is a movement afoot among conservative Christians to take over our country and give America a theocratic makeover. A slew of magazine articles and books--with apocalyptic titles such as American Theocracy and The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us (1)--announced conservative Christians' backward views on social and political...