Rousas John Rushdoony’s 3-volume Institutes of Biblical Law explains the meaning and impact of biblical law—not only in its original context, but also in its modern application. Rushdoony explains why God’s law has enormous relevance for today. Combining Old Testament scholarship with legal theory, The Institutes of Biblical Law shows how Old Testament law is important not only for biblical scholarship, but for understanding the fundamental nature of human identity.

The 5-volume Commentary on the Pentateuch by Rousas John Rushdoony recovers the meaning and purpose of the Pentateuch for modern readers. These verse-by-verse commentaries return the Pentateuch to its rightful place—as central to our understanding of both humanity and God. Rushdoony makes sensible the genealogies, legal codes, and rituals. He recounts the lives of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses and Aaron, and the other central figures of the first books of the Bible. The Commentary on the Pentateuch helps restore the significance of these important Old Testament for scholars, pastors, and ordinary readers.

Theology belongs in the pulpit, the school, the workplace, the family, and everywhere. Society as a whole is weakened when theology is neglected. Systematic theology helps people approach the Bible with a clear and coherent picture of God’s revelation. Theology helps us discover the nature and person of God. Rushdoony’s 2-volume Systematic Theology is designed to assist in the application of the Word of God to every area of life and thought.

First published in 1970, Thy Kingdom Come helped spur the modern rise of postmillennialism. Genesis 3 describes the fall of man into sin and death. Revelation counters that with man’s victory in Christ over sin and death, and though the details of Revelation are perplexing, even baffling at times, it’s meaning is clear: it is a book about victory.

The Bible is God’s Word for everyone—in family life, church, state, school business, arts, sciences, law, economics, politics, and all things else. The 3-volume Rushdoony New Testament Commentary Collection contains commentaries on six books of the New Testament. These commentaries affirm the Bible’s ability to speak authoritatively in all areas of life. These detailed, verse-by-verse commentaries explore the meaning of key New Testament themes, from Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection, to the countless Old Testament parallels in the Romans and Hebrews, to the implications of the law and of grace in the church today.

The Rushdoony Biblical Studies Collection (8 Vols.) contains studies of Elijah and Elisha, topical commentaries on the books of Daniel and Revelation, and a study of moral standards in the Old Testament. This collection also contains books which examine the entire Bible to produce a biblical philosophy of history and a biblical philosophy of psychology. Rushdoony also outlines the doctrine of God’s sovereignty, based on a thorough examination of Scripture, and examines both confession and atonement as it is depicted in the Bible.

This text explores the notion that every social order rests on a creed—a concept of life and law—and represents a religion in action. The basic faith of a society means growth in terms of that faith. Rushdoony argues that because of its indifference to its creedal basis in biblical Christianity, Western civilization is today facing death in its struggle with humanism. Just as when a foundation is provided, the general form of a building is determined, when a creed is accepted, a social order is determined. Rushdoony goes on to suggest that there can be no reconstruction of the Christian civilization of the West except on Christian creedal foundations.

Explore seven texts by twentieth-century American theologian Rousas John Rushdoony, founder of Christian Reconstructionism. Examine his writings on topics of ethics in society and culture. In this collection you can find books from his very first—an analysis of Cornelius Van Til’s philosophy, crucial to the development of his thought—through later texts discussing foundations of the social order, the state, and personal charity. Access texts discussing Christian curriculum, the effect of Neoplatonism on Christianity, and more.

Get everything you need to take your study of Romans to the next level. The Romans Collection features the renowned commentaries from Pillar, the New American Commentary, the New Beacon Bible Commentary, the College Press NIV Commentary, the Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, the International Critical Commentary, and many, many more. Including classics by Charles Hodge, John Calvin, Henry Cowles, J. B. Lightfoot, Charles Gore, and Albert Barnes, as well as modern commentaries by N. T. Wright, Craig S. Keener, R. C. Sproul, Leon Morris, and Ben Witherington III, this collection goes above and beyond merely commenting on Paul’s words. It provides an intense, thorough, and all-encompassing library of the textual history, theological implications, cultural background, contemporary application, and denominational interpretations of each verse of Romans.

The goal of fallen man is self-deification, to be as God (Gen. 3:5), whereas the goal of redeemed man is to be God's covenant man. Christ's perfect humanity is our standard, not his deity. We cannot have Christ as our God if we will not have him as our true man, as our federal head. In the first Adam, we are born into sin and death; in the last Adam, we are born into justice or righteousness and life. Jesus is the true bread of life, come down from heaven. His flesh, his true humanity, is our bread of life; this he gives for the life of the world. We are in him no longer the sinful and death-bound sons of fallen Adam, but the just and life-bound people of the last Adam. Christ gives us his flesh, his glorious humanity, so that we are remade into people of righteousness and eternal life.

For the orthodox Christian who grounds his philosophy of history on the doctrine of creation, the wellspring of that history is God. Time rests on the foundations of eternity, on the eternal decree of God. Time and history, therefore, have meaning because they were created in terms of God’s perfect and comprehensive plan.

Hypocrisy replaces virtue when people try to cover their sins rather than confess them to God. This is all too common when the biblical doctrine of confession is not preached or practiced. In The Cure of Souls, Rousas John Rushdoony examines the biblical teaching on confession and explaining the errors of Romanism and the neo-Freudianism of modern Christian counseling.

To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject twenty centuries and their progress. The Institutes of Biblical Law has as its purpose a reversal of the present trend. It is called "Institutes" in the older meaning of the word—fundamental principles, here of the law—because it is intended as a beginning, as an instituting consideration of the law which must govern society, and which shall govern society under God.

The great problem in the church's interpretation of Scripture has been its ecclesiastical orientation, as though God speaks only to the church, and commands only the church. The Bible is God's Word for everyone in family life, church, state, school, business, arts, sciences, law, economics, politics, and all things else. If we turn loose the whole Word of God onto the church and the world, we shall see with joy its power and glory—in all areas of life. Toward this end is the purpose of Rushdoony's commentaries on Romans and Galatians written.

R.J. Rushdoony’s first book, published originally in 1959, gives an analysis of the philosophy of Cornelius Van Til. Central to this study is the belief that the presuppositions of human thought in every field must be basically one in order to arrive at any concept which both validates biblical faith and human knowledge. The sovereignty of the self-contained God is the key to every field, in that only the God of Scripture makes all things possible and explicable—and is thus the basic premise not only of theology, but also of philosophy, science and all knowledge. As God is the creator of all things, he is their only valid principle of interpretation—all things derive both their existence and meaning from his creative act. Rushdoony supports and expands on Van Til’s philosophy.

There is a marked resemblance between our time and that of Elijah and Elisha. Chariots of Prophetic Fire shows how many of today’s Christians are again guilty of Baal worship, loose morals due to inflation-fed prosperity, and syncretism. Once again, as in the days of Elijah and Elisha, it is considered virtuous to tolerate evil and condemn those who do not.

There is a resounding call in Hebrews which we cannot forget without going astray: "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach" (13:13). This is a summons to break with Judaism, i.e. the reigning, commanding culture of the Hebrews, and to serve Christ, the Redeemer-King, fully and faithfully, without compromise. In our time, it calls for a break, not only with the prevailing culture of humanistic statism and its messianic claims and pretensions, but also with a wayward church that has made itself the handmaiden to Christ's enemies.

God's law is much more than legal code. It is covenantal law. It establishes a personal relationship between God and man. The first section of this volume summarizes case laws. The author tenderly illustrates how the law is for our good, and makes clear the difference between the sacrificial laws and those that apply today. The second section vividly shows the practical implications of the law. The examples catch the reader's attention, as Rushdoony draws from his experience of practicing and discussing God's law. The third section shows that would-be challengers to God's law produce only poison and death. Only God's law can claim to express God's covenant grace in helping us.

There is no separation of history and theology in Genesis, nor in all the Bible. Our choice is between God and chance, between total meaning and total meaninglessness. Genesis is the starting point of sound theology because it declares God to be the Creator and therefore the determiner of all things. Without this premise, Christianity begins to disintegrate. The restoration of a strong faith begins with the recognition of the centrality of Genesis to theology.

This work provides R.J. Rushdoony’s take on how Christians can come to view every area of life from a biblical perspective—working from the premise that “you can’t legislate morality” is a half truth. He then provides a framework for how he sees these areas being brought under the dominion of Christ and the government of the Bible.

In this text, Rushdoony—a major advocate of Christian homeschooling—discusses Christian curriculum. He works from the principle that curriculum cannot be neutral—suggesting that it is either a course in humanism or training in a God-centered faith and life. The liberal arts curriculum means literally that course which trains students in the arts of freedom. This raises the key question: is freedom in and of man or Christ? The Christian art of freedom, what Rushdoony terms the Christian liberal arts curriculum, is not the same as the humanistic one. He designs this text to help Christian educators rethink the meaning and nature of their curriculum.

Revolt Against Maturity is a study of biblical psychology. Bible-based Christian psychology assumes that man is created in the image of God not indirectly shaped through theistic—or any other kind of—evolution. It believes that man has already been determined and defined by God.

In this text Rushdoony argues that one of the most neglected but pervasive threats to the Christian worldview is that of Neoplatonism. He suggests that basing Christianity on this false Neoplatonic idea will always shift the faith away from the biblical perspective, leading Christians to believe they can escape sin if they can escape the material world. But Scripture says all of man fell into sin, not just his flesh. The text looks at the nature and effect of Neoplatonism on contemporary Christian thought.

For centuries, humanistic philosophers have produced an endless array of books and treatises that attempt rationalize man and his thought processes without acknowledging God, the mediatory work of Jesus, or man’s sin. God holds all such efforts in derision and subjects their authors and adherents to futility.

The Reformed Portfolio library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Reformed Portfolio Library takes everything in the Reformed Diamond Library and adds even more to your library. The Reformed Portfolio LIbrary contains key sets including Tyndale Commentaries | TOTC/TNTC (47 vols.), Barth’s Church Dogmatics (31 vols.), The Works of Jonathan Edwards (41 vols.), Pillar New Testament Commentary | PNTC (17 vols.), and many more. The Reformed Portfolio Library is excellent for academic research or advanced exegesis.

The purpose of Law and Society, this second of three volumes of The Institutes of Biblical Law, is to show how God's law applies to every aspect of our lives and the world. There are in God's word specified consequences, curses, and blessings for disobedience and obedience. We cannot understand history apart from that fact.

Theology belongs in the pulpit, the school, the workplace, the family, and everywhere. Society as a whole is weakened when theology is neglected. Systematic theology helps people approach the Bible with a clear and coherent picture of God’s revelation. Theology helps us discover the nature and perso...

If you desire to understand the core of Rushdoony's thinking, this commentary on Deuteronomy is a volume you must read. The covenantal structure of this last book of Moses, its detailed listing of both blessings and curses, and its strong presentation of godly theocracy provided Rushdoony with a solid foundation from which to summarize the central tenets of a truly biblical worldview—one that is solidly established upon biblical law, and one that is assured to shape the future.

Study the beginning through John’s eyes with a library tailored to exegete and analyze this unique gospel. John stands miles apart from his synoptic counterparts, providing a vastly different lens through which to see Jesus and his ministry—and yet, he tells the same story. Nearly 100 verse-by-verse commentaries offer insight to every word of John’s Gospel, providing multifaceted and multidenominational approaches to the beloved apostle’s theological story.

The resources included in the Systematic Theology Collection works in conjunction with the Systematic Theology Cross-References Dataset to bring these resources to the Passage Guide. Study a passage, and the Systematic Theologies section reports where your systematic theologies refer to the verse, and further organizes them by denomination and category of systematic study. Whether the verse is used in section reporting soteriological beliefs or in the prolegomena, you’ll see before digging in. And with so many systematic theologies for Logos to search through, you’ll never miss a verses’ use in theological proof in any denomination.