CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Part One:
Theonomy

Salvation is by the grace of God through faith; sanctification is by the law of God.... Those who are in the covenant are in a covenant of grace which is also a covenant of works. The grace enables them to perform the works which are required of them....
— Rousas John Rushdoony

Such is the natural propensity of man's heart to the way of the law, in opposition to Christ, that, as the tainted vessel turns the taste of the purest liquor put into it, so the natural man turns the very gospel into law, and transforms the covenant of grace into a covenant of works. — Thomas Boston

Chapter One
An Overview of Historic Covenant Theology

Chapter Two
Views of the Mosaic Covenant Within the Reformed Tradition

Chapter Three
An Overview of the Theonomic System

Chapter Four
Theonomy and the Covenant of Works

Chapter Five
Theonomy's Doctrine of Covenantal Nomism

Chapter Six
The Object and Cause of True Sanctification

Chapter Seven
The Law Established "In Exhaustive Detail"

Chapter Eight
The Biblical Doctrine of the Law

Part Two:
Reconstructionism

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. Every law-order is a state of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of warfare....
— Rousas John Rushdoony

...[T]here are some who deny that any commonwealth is rightly framed which neglects the law of Moses, and is ruled by the common law of nations. How perilous and seditious these views are, let others see: for me it is enough to demonstrate that they are stupid and false.... — John Calvin

Chapter Nine
The Philosophical Foundation of Reconstructionism

Chapter Ten
Common Grace, Natural Law, and Civil Government

Chapter Eleven
An Implicit Denial of Common Grace

Chapter Twelve
The Appeal to Deuteronomy 4:6-8

Chapter Thirteen
Reconstructionism's Commitment to Mosaic Penology

Chapter Fourteen
The Covenantal Sanctions of Deuteronomy 28

Chapter Fifteen
How Does God Bless the Nations?

Chapter Sixteen
Theonomic Postmillennialism and the Bible

Chapter Seventeen
Reconstructionism's Theocratic Kingdom

Chapter Eighteen
The Nature of the Christian's Inheritance

Chapter Nineteen
Reconstructionism's Gospel of Restitution

Conclusion

Appendices

Appendix One:
A Response to Brian Schwertley

Appendix Two:
Reformed Testimonies Against Theonomy and Reconstructionism

Appendix Three:
The Moral Law Displayed in the Form of a Covenant of Works on Mount Sinai
by John Colquhoun

Appendix Four:
The Relation of the State to Christ
by James Henley Thornwell

Appendix Five:
A Response to James Henley Thornwell
by Thomas E. Peck

Bibliography