CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Part One:
Theonomy
Salvation is by the grace of God through faith; sanctification is by the law of God.... Those who are in the covenant are in a covenant of grace which is also a covenant of works. The grace enables them to perform the works which are required of them....
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Such is the natural propensity of man's heart to the way of the law, in opposition to Christ, that, as the tainted vessel turns the taste of the purest liquor put into it, so the natural man turns the very gospel into law, and transforms the covenant of grace into a covenant of works. — Thomas Boston
Chapter One
An Overview of Historic Covenant Theology
Chapter Two
Views of the Mosaic Covenant Within the Reformed Tradition
Chapter Three
An Overview of the Theonomic System
Chapter Four
Theonomy and the Covenant of Works
Chapter Five
Theonomy's Doctrine of Covenantal Nomism
Chapter Six
The Object and Cause of True Sanctification
Chapter Seven
The Law Established "In Exhaustive Detail"
Chapter Eight
The Biblical Doctrine of the Law
Part Two:
Reconstructionism
The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. Every law-order is a state of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of warfare....
— Rousas John Rushdoony
...[T]here are some who deny that any commonwealth is rightly framed which neglects the law of Moses, and is ruled by the common law of nations. How perilous and seditious these views are, let others see: for me it is enough to demonstrate that they are stupid and false.... — John Calvin
Chapter Nine
The Philosophical Foundation of Reconstructionism
Chapter Ten
Common Grace, Natural Law, and Civil Government
Chapter Eleven
An Implicit Denial of Common Grace
Chapter Twelve
The Appeal to Deuteronomy 4:6-8
Chapter Thirteen
Reconstructionism's Commitment to Mosaic Penology
Chapter Fourteen
The Covenantal Sanctions of Deuteronomy 28
Chapter Fifteen
How Does God Bless the Nations?
Chapter Sixteen
Theonomic Postmillennialism and the Bible
Chapter Seventeen
Reconstructionism's Theocratic Kingdom
Chapter Eighteen
Cultural Work and Kingdom Proclamation
Chapter Nineteen
The Nature of the Christian's Inheritance
Chapter Twenty
Reconstructionism's Gospel of World Dominion
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix One:
Historic Testimony Against Theonomy and Reconstructionism
Appendix Two:
The Moral Law Displayed in the Form
of a Covenant of Works on Mount Sinai
by John Colquhoun
Appendix Three:
On the Abolition of the Whole Law of Moses by the New Covenant
by John Milton
Appendix Four:
The Distinction Between the Law and the Gospel
by Theodore Beza
Appendix Five:
The Relation of the State to Christ
by James Henley Thornwell
Appendix Six:
Church and State: A Response to James Henley Thornwell
by Thomas E. Peck
Appendix Seven:
Are There Two Peoples of God? An Amillennial Response to Dispensationalism
by Greg Loren Durand
Bibliography
Glossary