{"product_id":"building-gods-kingdom-inside-the-world-of-christian-reconstruction-hardcover","title":"Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie J. Ingersoll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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 penalty for all manner of \"crimes\" described in the Bible including homosexuality, adultery, and Sabbath-breaking. But, as Julie Ingersoll shows in this fascinating new book, this \"Biblical Worldview\" shapes their views not only on political issues, but on everything from private property and economic policy to history and literature. Holding that the Bible provides a coherent, internally consistent, and all-encompassing worldview, they seek to remake the entirety of society--church, state, family, economy--along biblical lines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the movement from its mid-twentieth-century origins in the writings of theologian and philosopher R.J. Rushdoony to its present-day sites of influence, including the Christian Home School movement, advocacy for the teaching of creationism, and the development and rise of the Tea Party, Ingersoll illustrates how Reconstructionists have broadly and subtly shaped conservative American Protestantism over the course of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Drawing on interviews with Reconstructionists themselves as well as extensive research in Reconstructionist publications, \u003cem\u003eBuilding God's Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e offers the most complete and balanced portrait to date of this enigmatic segment of the Christian Right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulie J. Ingersoll\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of North Florida. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eEvangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles\u003c\/em\u003e (2003).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9.49 x 6.03 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45259657412710,"sku":"9780199913787","price":50.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OGRGUWhtWVNsY29TQVdCMDRVa3E3Zz09.webp?v=1773849036","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/building-gods-kingdom-inside-the-world-of-christian-reconstruction-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}