Deuteronomy (Commentaries on the Pentateuch)
Overview
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.
This is why the book of Deuteronomy is central to a Gospel of victory in time and eternity. The redemptive power of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit are the enabling forces for a people to once again live faithful to God's covenant—and Deuteronomy provides the details for that covenant. Rushdoony's study of Deuteronomy represents a sizable deposit into securing the obedience of the church.
Top Highlights
“The feast before the Lord was not to be a chore, done out of a sense of duty, but it was to be celebrated as an aspect of the joy of life.” (Page 193)
“God’s conditional love and covenant had sentenced a generation to die in the wilderness” (Page 4)
“No society in a fallen world can exist without fear as an aspect of government. Without the fear of God, the fear of the state prevails. Since the French Revolution especially, the fear of the state has prevailed. It provides no order; it furthers tyranny, and it is the companion of moral anarchy. Modern man regards the fear of God as obsolete and primitive, but he is increasingly governed by a variety of humanistic fears and terrors that are reducing his life to misery; he is haunted by the fear of both man and the state.” (Page 38)
“The doctrine is not a teaching that needs to be drilled into unwilling minds, because it is like dew or like rain falling on a thirsty earth and on wilting plants.” (Page 496)
“When Ruth gave birth to a son by Boaz, it was legally Naomi’s son, and Naomi named the boy Obed (Ruth 4:16–17).” (Page 419)
- Title: Commentaries on the Pentateuch: Deuteronomy
- Author: Rousas John Rushdoony
- Series: Rushdoony Commentaries on the Pentateuch
- Publisher: Mark R. Rushdoony
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2010
- Pages: 512
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Deuteronomy › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781879998506, 1879998505
- Resource ID: LLS:COMPENT05DE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-09T21:21:14Z
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.
