About Faith and Action: The Collected Articles of R. J. Rushdoony, 1965-2004
Faith and Action is the complete collection of the essays of R. J. Rushdoony written for the Chalcedon Report between 1965 and 2001 along with several transcripts of his recorded talks. The large volume The Roots of Reconstruction only contained his Chalcedon Report essays up until 1985, so most of the essays included in Faith & Action were unavailable to readers for many years until now.
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R.J. Rushdoony
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education · religion & spirituality · society & culture
In “Social Justice,” Rushdoony argues that modern social justice is not a Biblical concern but a humanistic doctrine rooted in the self-deification of intellectual elites who replace God’s law with their own autonomous reason, making justice whatever they declare it to be. Whereas Biblical law flows from the nature and authority of the sovereign God repeatedly grounded in the declaration “I am the Lord” social justice arises from man as the ultimate judge, turning law into a weapon of moral absolutism wielded by those who see themselves as virtue incarnate and their opponents as evil or subhuman. Historically embodied in revolutionary movements from Robespierre to Marx, social justice justifies unlimited coercion, purges, and the destruction of church, family, and economic freedom in the name of moral progress. Rushdoony contends that churches have been especially compromised, eagerly baptizing social justice because they too have shifted from God-centered justice to man-centered compassion. The result is not greater humanity but deeper division, dehumanization, and tyranny, for when justice is severed from God’s law, it becomes an instrument of injustice, reducing entire classes of people to expendable enemies rather than sinners in need of regeneration.
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30 Sept 2026
The Modern State, an Ancien Regime
In “The Modern State, an Ancient Regime,” Rushdoony argues that the modern humanistic state is not a new creation but a revival of ancient pagan sovereignty, claiming to be both the incarnation of man and the ultimate source of law and morality, thereby usurping the role of God and mirroring—by inversion—the Biblical doctrine of Christ as the true Adam and federal head of redeemed humanity. By making itself the lawgiver, the state becomes the arbiter of good and evil, demanding religious allegiance and imposing moral reform through bureaucratic agencies rather than divine law, while steadily encroaching on family, church, education, and vocation. Although once trusted as a substitute for the church and a guarantor of freedom and security, the modern state has become increasingly oppressive, ineffective, and self-serving, an obsolete ancien régime whose power grows even as its usefulness declines. Like pre-revolutionary France, it survives largely by inertia and coercion, not by service. Rushdoony insists that its collapse is inevitable; the real question is whether Christians will be prepared to replace it—not with another statist order, but with a godly reconstruction grounded in Christ’s lordship, Biblical law, Christian education, and renewed scholarship.
#ModernState #AncientRegime #Statism #Sovereignty #ChristTheKing #GodsLaw #ChristianReconstruction #KingdomOfGod #BiblicalWorldview
25 Sept 2026
Justice and the State
Our prisons have become breeding grounds for violence and extortion, as illustrated by a young man murdered for refusing to pay $5 a week to a gang in Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail, highlighting that the humanistic assumption that prisoners are “good at heart” blinds us to their evil nature; misjudging criminals as unfortunate or reformable only endangers society, and true safety requires recognizing sinfulness and holding offenders accountable. #PrisonCrisis #CriminalJustice #HumanNature #PrisonViolence #Accountability
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