The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Rushdoony, Bahnsen and Van Til

J_Edwards said:
Van Til's [influenced by Kuyper and Bavinck] students included Francis Schaeffer, R.J. Rushdoony, and Greg Bahnsen. I am assuming you are looking into FV and/or Reconstruction. Thus, even though Reconstructionists often claim Dutch Reformed theologian Cornelius Van Til as the forerunner of their movement, the true “father” of Reconstructionism was the late Rousas John Rushdoony, a former ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church who published the “bible” of the movement — Institutes of Biblical Law — in 1973. About the same time, Greg L. Bahnsen wrote his Th.M. thesis entitled "The Theonomic Responsibility of the Civil Magistrate," which was later published as Theonomy in Christian Ethics. This work caused an uproar throughout the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, of which body Bahnsen was also an ordained minister. Both Rushdoony and Bahnsen are now deceased, but their work is continued by The Chalcedon Foundation in Vallecito, California, The Southern California Center for Christian Studies in Placentia, California, and The Bahnsen Theological Seminary, which offers theological degrees through its correspondence courses. (Judicial Warfare)