Protect Civilization. Strengthen the Church. Defend the Family.
CONSERVATISM
Is Oikophilia Biblical?
"Love of home" is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend that Oikophilia is a biblical concept.
Refuting Relativism
Russell Kirk said, "Our twentieth-century world has experienced the hideous consequences of the collapse of belief in a moral order." If we in society exchange belief in objective morality --a transcendent moral order-- for clever sophism is indubitably to commit moral suicide.
The Reformation Principle
If we are to defeat the Revolution, we must have the Gospel stripped of all hindrances and set free from the superstitions in which Rome has sunk and distorted it.
Gun Rights, Protestant History, and Modern Research
Protestants have generally held a pro-life position. It is impracticable and infeasible to protect life when you are unarmed and helpless.
Solution to the Revolution
What is capable of guaranteeing the social order after the great masses have reconsidered its foundations? What is the solution to our revolution?
LIBERALISM
Catholicism’s Impotence and the Liberal Revolution
Never forget that most of the abuses of the Roman Church are inextricably bound up with its doctrines, and that its so-called infallibility renders it incorrigible.
A Depraved New World
Sex is one of the most foundational issues in our culture today. Read more to see what caused the dramatic shift in our culture’s attitude towards sex.
What is the Revolution?
Revolution is the characteristic world-political signature of our age, the establishment of society on man's will rather than God's order and providence.
Are Calvinists “Nice?”
Christians mistake difference of etiquette for gracelessness. Does being nice equal love? Should Calvinists sacrifice genuine unity for short-term accord?
Why are Men Opting Out of Marriage?
If the family is a bedrock of society and if men are responsible for the family, it behoves us to seriously consider the reasons why men are opting out of marriage, career, and family.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Augustine On Social Justice
To Augustine, we have two ways of acquiring justice: transcendent and immanent. Some describe imminent justice as legal justice and transcendent justice as religious justice. However, the Social Justice movement conflates the two.
Capitalism and the Exploitation of the Working Class
Within capitalism, is exploitation necessary and unavoidable and therefore endemic to the system? Dr. Ronald Nash navigates this question with a fair trial.
Marcuse’s Hypocritical Neo-Socialism
Marcuse, with his Neo-Socialism, believed that men need to be freed from false needs and consciousness. Read how his theory, in the end, was hypocritical.
Kuyper and Poverty: The Christian Solution
Kuyper provides a Biblical answer to poverty; a nuanced position to include the collective and the individual. Poverty is neither new, nor always a result of sin, but it must be addressed by the compassionate Christian.
Correcting John Rawls’s Social Justice
Conservative Christians must know John Rawls. His philosophy has bled into our theology and is in the church. Is justice without social justice possible?
POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Augustine On Social Justice
To Augustine, we have two ways of acquiring justice: transcendent and immanent. Some describe imminent justice as legal justice and transcendent justice as religious justice. However, the Social Justice movement conflates the two.
Is Oikophilia Biblical?
"Love of home" is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend that Oikophilia is a biblical concept.
John Rawls’s Technodicy
Rawls seems to have thought that one must choose between believing in an omnipotent and good God who cares for human beings or hoping for a more just world through human effort. Choosing the first meant resigning oneself to living in a world filled with egotism and evil.
Westminster Divines on Private Property
In 1534 the Dutch radical reformer John of Leyden took control of the nearby German city of Münster. He sought to establish an eschatological utopia, outlawing private property.
The Authority of the State
In our efforts to shape culture according to an Authority in which the world does not believe, too many Christians have it backwards. We ask others to submit to God while rebelling ourselves.