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The presuppositions and the outline of theonomy's proposals appeared in the 17th century in the New England colonies.

In the 1970s, in the works of Rousas John Rushdoony ( 1973, The Institutes of Biblical Law ), and Greg Bahnsen ( 1977, Theonomy in Christian Ethics ) revived these sentiments.

These two works, together with other writings, influenced a number of Christian political activists and prolific writers, who proposed their own elaborations of the idea, developing specific answers to contemporary social, political and economic issues, on the basis of their understandings of Biblical Law.