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The Politics of God and the Politics of Man - Reconstructionist Radio (Audiobook) Stephen Perks
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According to Augustine of Hippo, “True justice has no existence save in that republic whose founder and ruler is Christ.” Augustine went on to spell out in no uncertain terms what this means for a proper understanding of the nature and authority of governments: “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, ‘What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor’ ” (City of God, Bk. II.21, IV.4).
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Chapter 1
Introduction
Section 1: Christianity and Politics
Section 2: The Establishment Principle
Section 3: The Function of the State
Section 4: The Secular State and Persecution
Section 5: Conclusion
Excursus – Definition of Terms
Section 1: Church
Section 2: Religion
Section 3: Politics, Political, Political Sphere, Political Realm
Section 4: State, Civil Government, Magistrate
Section 5: Multiculturalism
Section 6: World-View -
Chapter 2
The Politics of God and The Politics of Man
Section 1: Politics and Religion
Section 2: Politics as a General Category for Understanding the Christian Faith
Section 3: Politics as a Specific Form of Social Action
Section 4: Practising the Politics of God
Section 5: Conclusion
Excursus
The Grammar of the Great Commission -
Chapter 3
A Christian View of Social Order and the State
Section 1: Absolute Power and Authority
Section 2: The Christian Doctrine of Social Order
Section 3: The Christian Doctrine of the State
Section 4: Reforming the Modern State
Section 5: Conclusion
Excursus
Section 1: Terms Used for Tax in the New Testament
Section 2: The Terminology of the English Education System -
Chapter 4
Total Depravity and Social Order
Section 1: The Reformed Doctrine of the Reformers
Section 2: The Roman Catholic Doctrine
Section 3: That Modern Protestant Doctrine
Section 4: The Armenian Doctrine
Section 5: The Biblical Doctrine
Section 6: Conclusion -
Chapter 5
Socialism
Section 1: Historical Misconceptions
Section 2: Socialism and Revolution
Section 3: Socialism and Slavery
Section 4: Socialism and Christianity
Section 5: Capitalism and Christianity
Section 6: Socialism as Religion
Section 7: Socialism, Mammon and Patronage
Section 8: Conclusion
Excursus – Some Neglected Aspects of Marxist Ideology
Section 1: Marxist Communism and Socialism
Section 2: Marxism and Sexual Communism
Section 3: Marxist Communism and the Family
Section 4: Marxism, Libertarianism and Idolatry
Section 5: Marxism, Fascism and Socialism -
Chapter 6
Communism in the New Testament
Section 1: The Jerusalem Commune as a Political Paradigm
Section 2: Communism, the Family and Economic Validity
Section 3: The Jerusalem Commune Reconsidered
Section 4: Conclusion
Excursus
Office, Ministry and the Ritualization of Christianity