The Witness of the False Prophet

R.J Rushdoony The Witness of the False Prophet In analyzing the work of the false prophet (Deut. 18:9-22), we saw that the purpose of the magic, sacrifice, divination, and related rites of false prophecy is prediction. The prediction involved in the rites described...

The Foundations of Social Order

R.J Rushdoony The Foundations of Social Order (Reprinted from The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church [Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1998], 181-186.) Every social order rests on a creed, on a concept of life and law,...

Publisher’s Foreword: Chalcedon

R.J Rushdoony Publisher’s Foreword: Chalcedon October 1995 The story of Chalcedon is really my life’s story. Being an Armenian, many of whose family members died for the faith, and coming from a long line of clergymen, the faith was identical to life for me. Before my...

First the Blade

R.J Rushdoony | May 4, 2017 First the Blade (Taken from Roots of Reconstruction, p. 374; Chalcedon Position Paper No. 88) One of the very important and much neglected verses of Scripture is Mark 4:28: “For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself: first the blade,...

Dictatorship and Freedom

R.J Rushdoony | May 21, 2017 Dictatorship and Freedom In almost every instance that totalitarianism has taken over a major country, it has done so in the name of liberty. People welcome tyranny in the belief that their liberties are being greatly increased. In only...

The Choice

R.J Rushdoony | July 8, 2017 The Choice In Joshua 24:15, Joshua summons Israel to make up its mind whom they will serve, whether it be God, or something else. He begins with these words, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will...