Salvation and Godly Rule
Overview
The full meaning of salvation cannot be understood without considering what it means to reign. Paul’s frequent use of the word “reign in the book of Romans” makes clear the kingship and dominion in the doctrine of redemption. Man was called to dominion (Gen. 1:26–28) and to establish his reign over the world. Through his fall, man allowed death to reign in the world. But Paul has declared that we are now “more than conquerors” and that “we reign in life” because of our salvation through Christ. In Salvation and Godly Rule, Rushdoony shows how the biblical doctrine of salvation requires us to take our rightful place as kings and queens under God, through grace and the gift of righteousness.
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- Examines the biblical doctrine of salvation
- Analyzes the Buddhist plan of salvation
- Discusses the doctrine of propitiation
Top Highlights
“Christian worship celebrates salvation and victory; if it fails to do this, it is not worship. In pagan temples there is no celebration of either personal or corporate salvation. Instead, there is a transaction which is in essence the purchase of insurance.” (Page 11)
“The Biblical doctrine of salvation is so clearly one of victory, that it must be emphatically stated that salvation is not escape.” (Page 1)
“In paganism, man seeks an escape from his problems, or a retirement into sensual bliss from the world’s work and responsibility. By failing to recognize his rebellion against the sovereign God as his essential problem as well as his sin, pagan man wants not salvation but escape. To admit the real problem, his sin, is to admit that there is no way of escape, only the way of salvation through God’s regenerating grace.” (Page 5)
“Salvation in Scripture is neither a promise of escape, nor an insurance guaranteeing immunity against tribulation. It is rather the assurance of victory in the warfare of life.” (Pages 13–14)
“To act as though something we do is a magnanimous surrender of something on our part to God is Phariseeism” (Page 92)
- Title: Salvation and Godly Rule
- Author: Rousas John Rushdoony
- Publisher: Ross House Books
- Publication Date: 1983
- Pages: 661
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) was was a well-known American scholar, writer, and author of over thirty books. He earned degrees from the University of California, received theological training at the Pacific School of Religion, and received an honorary Doctorate from Valley Christian University for his book The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum.
Rushdoony was an ordained minister and served as pastor at two California churches. He served for almost nine years as a missionary to the Shoshone and Paiute Indians in a remote area of Nevada. It was during this time as a missionary that Rushdoony began writing. The Institutes of Biblical Law and Commentary on the Pentateuch are just a few of the titles that Rushdoony has penned.
The Chalcedon Foundation, an educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and cogent communication of a distinctively Christian scholarship to the world at large, was founded by Rushdoony in 1965. He served as the editor of The Chalcedon Report, the monthly magazine of the Chalcedon Foundation.
Rushdoony also published the Journal of Christian Reconstruction and was an early board member of the Rutherford Institute which was founded by John W. Whitehead.