In Women, Rushdoony argues that the Enlightenment’s exaltation of autonomous reason resulted in the social and legal downgrading of women by redefining man as reason incarnate and woman as emotion or unreason. This distortion fractured the complementary relationship between the sexes, weakened the family, and fostered both romanticized irresponsibility and modern feminism’s pursuit of the same lawless “freedom” from God and responsibility claimed by men. Rushdoony contends that this false liberation has produced social atomism, moral collapse, and increasing vulnerability for women rather than dignity or protection. True liberty, he concludes, is found not in autonomy but in submission to God’s order, where men and women alike flourish in responsibility, purpose, and the blessings of living in God’s world. #Women #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #BiblicalOrder #Family #Humanism #TrueFreedom

In Women, Rushdoony argues that the Enlightenment’s exaltation of autonomous reason resulted in the social and legal downgrading of women by redefining man as reason incarnate and woman as emotion or unreason. This distortion fractured the complementary relationship between the sexes, weakened the family, and fostered both romanticized irresponsibility and modern feminism’s pursuit of the same lawless “freedom” from God and responsibility claimed by men. Rushdoony contends that this false liberation has produced social atomism, moral collapse, and increasing vulnerability for women rather than dignity or protection. True liberty, he concludes, is found not in autonomy but in submission to God’s order, where men and women alike flourish in responsibility, purpose, and the blessings of living in God’s world. #Women #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #BiblicalOrder #Family #Humanism #TrueFreedom

In Everyday Romanticism, Rushdoony warns that popular Romanticism, far from being harmless sentiment, is a destructive mindset that replaces God’s reality with self-created dreams and demands instant fulfillment without responsibility, patience, or discipline. Whether expressed in distorted expectations of love, career, or revolution, Romanticism insists on life “on my terms,” erupting into rage, despair, or victimization when reality intrudes. Rushdoony shows how this temperament fuels broken marriages, personal failure, and even political terror by seeking regeneration through emotion or revolution rather than through God’s transforming grace. Only a biblical faith, he concludes, can shatter Romantic illusions, restore humility, and teach men and women to live faithfully, fruitfully, and responsibly within God’s real world. #EverydayRomanticism #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #Romanticism #BiblicalWisdom #Discipleship

In Existentialism, Rushdoony argues that modern law, politics, and education are increasingly governed by an existentialist worldview that denies the binding authority of God, history, and objective law, replacing them with the arbitrary demands of the present moment. By treating the past as irrelevant and truth as situational, existentialism dissolves law into power and planning into improvisation, leaving society ruled by expediency rather than justice. Rushdoony contrasts this drift with the biblical foundation of law rooted in God’s sovereignty and covenant over all of history, warning that when Christians restrict Christ’s lordship to the church alone, they surrender culture, law, and hope to humanism. Against the emptiness of existential rule, he affirms that Christ reigns over all things, that His covenant encompasses every sphere of life, and that history itself moves inexorably toward the triumph of His Kingdom. #Existentialism #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #BiblicalLaw #ChristIsKing #FaithAndCulture #GodsSovereignty

In Reason and Politics, Rushdoony argues that modern thought has distorted humanity by redefining man as an autonomous, rational, and political animal, replacing his identity as a creature made in God’s image and turning politics into a false means of salvation. This shift exalted reason as the supreme judge, politicized all of life, marginalized women and families, and reduced most men to “human cattle” needing re-creation through statist education and scientific planning. By severing man from Christianity and subordinating family, church, and faith to the state, modern society sought to remake humanity through politics and science. Yet Rushdoony sees a growing counter-movement in Christian schools and families, signaling a decisive conflict between statism and biblical faith, a struggle ultimately governed not by human power but by the sovereign purpose of the triune God. #ReasonAndPolitics #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #Statism #BiblicalAuthority #FaithAndCulture #ChristianEducation #GodsSovereignty

In Reason and Politics, Rushdoony argues that modern thought has distorted humanity by redefining man as an autonomous, rational, and political animal, replacing his identity as a creature made in God’s image and turning politics into a false means of salvation. This shift exalted reason as the supreme judge, politicized all of life, marginalized women and families, and reduced most men to “human cattle” needing re-creation through statist education and scientific planning. By severing man from Christianity and subordinating family, church, and faith to the state, modern society sought to remake humanity through politics and science. Yet Rushdoony sees a growing counter-movement in Christian schools and families, signaling a decisive conflict between statism and biblical faith, a struggle ultimately governed not by human power but by the sovereign purpose of the triune God. #ReasonAndPolitics #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #Statism #BiblicalAuthority #FaithAndCulture #ChristianEducation #GodsSovereignty

In Diderot: The Gardener and the Worm, Rushdoony exposes how humanism, by abolishing God and absolute law, inevitably replaces divine sovereignty with rule by an elite who exercise power over men reduced to expendable “worms.” Drawing on Diderot, Nietzsche, and the French Revolution, he shows that declaring all men equal apart from God does not elevate humanity but strips life of meaning, leaving power as the only remaining value. In such a world, law is no longer God-given but imposed by self-appointed “gardeners” who decide who may live or die in the name of liberty and equality. Against this nihilistic vision, Rushdoony affirms the biblical truth that God alone is the head gardener, that man is made in His image rather than a worm, and that true freedom, dignity, and dominion exist only under God’s sovereign law. #Diderot #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #Humanism #Statism #BiblicalLaw #ChristVsCaesar #FaithAndCulture