Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction

by Julie Ingersoll

Book Overview

For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law as it is contained in both the Old and New Testaments. They challenge the legitimacy of democracy, argue that slavery is biblically justifiable, and support the death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199913781
• ISBN13: 9780199913787
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"