In Everyday Romanticism, Rushdoony warns that popular Romanticism, far from being harmless sentiment, is a destructive mindset that replaces God’s reality with self-created dreams and demands instant fulfillment without responsibility, patience, or discipline. Whether expressed in distorted expectations of love, career, or revolution, Romanticism insists on life “on my terms,” erupting into rage, despair, or victimization when reality intrudes. Rushdoony shows how this temperament fuels broken marriages, personal failure, and even political terror by seeking regeneration through emotion or revolution rather than through God’s transforming grace. Only a biblical faith, he concludes, can shatter Romantic illusions, restore humility, and teach men and women to live faithfully, fruitfully, and responsibly within God’s real world. #EverydayRomanticism #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #Romanticism #BiblicalWisdom #Discipleship

In Subversion of Words, Rushdoony argues that revolutionary movements advance by corrupting language, redefining familiar terms like republic, love, and especially God to mask humanism, statism, and rebellion against biblical truth. He contends that apart from orthodox Christianity, most religions are effectively atheistic, replacing the personal, sovereign God with man, fate, nothingness, or the state, while still exploiting biblical language to maintain credibility. Modern churches, he warns, often participate in this deception by preaching revolution under Christian vocabulary, substituting socialism for salvation and statism for God. Tracing this linguistic corruption through thinkers like Nietzsche and Hegel, Rushdoony frames the conflict as Christ versus Caesar, insisting that true reform begins with restoring honest language grounded in Scripture and submitting once again to the living and triune God revealed in His Word. #SubversionOfWords #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #BiblicalTruth #Statism #Humanism #ChristVsCaesar #Theology #FaithAndCulture

In The Marxist Separation of Church and State, Rushdoony clarifies the stark contrast between the historic American understanding of the First Amendment and the Marxist reinterpretation now increasingly accepted in public life and even within the church. Marxism defines “separation” as the enforced isolation and impotence of the church, barring it from education, public influence, and moral authority, while granting the state total jurisdiction over all spheres of life. By contrast, the American view restrains the state, not the church, protecting the church from state control rather than silencing its voice. Rushdoony warns that courts, legislators, and even pastors have embraced this humanistic presupposition, treating biblical teaching on abortion, sexuality, and public morality as forbidden “politics.” Against this retreat, he insists that God’s sovereignty knows no boundaries, that Scripture commands the church to speak God’s law to rulers and nations, and that silencing the church in the name of neutrality is not orthodoxy but surrender. #ChurchAndState #Rushdoony #BiblicalWorldview #ChristianWitness #GodsSovereignty #Humanism #FaithInPublicLife #BiblicalLaw

In Suicidal Humanism, Rushdoony exposes the deadly illusion behind modern humanism: the belief that eliminating God, guilt, and divine law through technology, psychology, and the socialist state will usher in a perfect world. Drawing on figures like Bertrand Russell and Freud, he shows how humanism seeks to medicalize sin, erase religion, and enthrone man as his own god, only to produce despair, lawlessness, and self-destruction instead of peace. Far from solving humanity’s problems, technological power intensifies them, because the core issue is not systems or science but sinful man himself. The tragic rise in suicide, violence, and moral collapse—especially among youth—reveals humanism’s suicidal end, while the biblical alternative calls men back to God’s law as the true foundation for order, blessing, and hope, affirming that rejecting God is ultimately a love of death, but obedience to His Word brings life. #SuicidalHumanism #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #BiblicalLaw #Humanism #FaithAndCulture #GodsLaw #MeaningAndHope

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.

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.

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.

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.