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4.3/5 AbeBooks Publication date 1973 Originally published 1973 Page count 890 | 4.3/5 Goodreads Publisher The Craig Press Pages 890 Subject Theonomy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Institutes of Biblical Law is a book by Rousas John Rushdoony, published in 1973. It is the first volume of a three-volume work, also referred to by the same title, which is modeled after Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The Institutes of Biblical Law expounds the Ten Commandments, adopting a theonomic perspective. John Frame notes that the major thesis of the book is that "almost all of the Old Testament civil law is literally normative for civil governments today."
The Institutes of Biblical Law is a major work in Christian Reconstructionism. It provides an outline of a program for establishing a Christian theocracy. Joe Bageant suggests that if the United States experiences a fourth "Great Awakening", historians may one day "document it as beginning in 1973 with the publication of R. J. Rushdoony's seminal The Institutes of Biblical Law."