The word “primacy” implies that there is something secondary the word “only” implies that there is nothing else. Notice the words “only,” “primacy” “reduce,” and “ideology.” Apparently because he could quote no greater, he quotes himself saying, “ ‘to discuss religion only in terms of ideas or doctrine is to reduce religion to an ideology.’ A true presuppositionalist will not fall into the trap of the ‘primacy of the intellect and doctrine.’ “ (x). Jordan wastes no time launching an attack on Christianity. Jordan says that he is relying on “two schools of thought”: “Vantillian presuppositionalism and Christian Reconstructionism” (1). Jordan also thanks Vern Poythress (a Van Tilian and member of the Westminster faculty), Ray Sutton (a Van Tilian Reconstructionist and president of the Philadelphia Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church), Lewis Bulkeley (then an elder of the Reconstructionist church in Tyler, Texas), Geddes MacGregor (neo-orthodox), Louis Boyer (Roman Catholic charismatic), Alexander Schmemann (Russian Orthodox), Gary North (a Van Tilian Recon), Michael Gilstrap (a Van Tilian Recon), Craig Bulkeley, Robert Dwelle, and David Chilton (a Van Tilian Recon). (Norman Shepherd was removed from the Seminary’s faculty for his views regarding justification by faith.) Norman Shepherd of Westminster Seminary tremendously reoriented my thinking about the covenant and the sacraments” (xi). Frame at Westminster Theological Seminary. Jordan discloses that “My intellectual formation as a presuppositionalist has been due to the writings of Cornelius Van Til and Rousas John Rushdoony, and also to various classes I was privileged to take under Greg Bahnsen at Reformed Theological Seminary and John M. He was editor of Christianity and Civilization, and his essays are currently published by Gary North’s Institute for Christian Economics. Jim is one of these ‘Theonomists’ or ‘Christian Reconstructionists’ who believes that these mysterious biblical laws are still binding, even upon New Testament believers.” Jordan has been a prolific writer for the Reconstructionist movement, producing several books, scores of essays, and functioning as a pastor of the Reconstructionist church in Tyler, Texas. Frame has described him as “one of the most interesting and able students I ever taught at Westminster Theological Seminary. M., where he studied under another Master of Theology, John M. Jordan holds two degrees from Westminster Seminary, the M.A.R. Lewis, Billy Graham, Cornelius Van Til, and Reformed and Westminster Theological Seminaries. His family was variously Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, and Moravian he attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and was shaped by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart he was confirmed in a Lutheran church later he was influenced by Campus Crusade, the Navigators, Francis Schaeffer, C. Jordan includes an eight page Preface that furnishes us with some insight into the influences on his thought. Some of the essays were previously published. God’s Hospitality and Holistic Evangelism 12. Christian Zionism and Messianic Judaism 9. The Sociology of the Church: A Biblico-Historical Approach 4. The Sociology of the Church: A Systematic Approach 3. Reconstructing the Church: A Conservative Ecumenical Agenda 2. This book is a collection of fourteen essays: 1. The Sociology of the Church: Essays in Reconstruction, James B. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your system please click here onĭownload the E-Book version of this review.ĭownload the Kindle version of this review. The Reconstructionist Road to Rome John W.
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