Rousas John Rushdoony, one of the founders of Christian Reconstructionism, was North's father-in-law, and North is a Christian Reconstructionist.

In the 20th century, Imbolc was resurrected as a religious festival in Neopaganism, specifically in Wicca, Neo-druidry and Celtic Reconstructionism.

In the 20th century, Imbolc was resurrected as a religious festival in Neopaganism, specifically in Wicca, Neo-druidry and Celtic Reconstructionism.

Christian Reconstructionism was originally formulated as a practical expression of Postmillennial Christian Eschatology, though the distinctive tenets of the school of thought ( generally referred to as Theonomic Ethics ) are purported to be compatible with other eschatological viewpoints within conservative Christianity.

Rousas John Rushdoony ( 1916 – 2001 ) was the intellectual founder of Christian Reconstructionism, a postmillennial form of theocratic Dominion Theology.

Greg Bahnsen's vocal advocacy of Christian Reconstructionism and theonomy was highly controversial during his lifetime, and a public disputation pertaining to theonomy led to his dismissal from the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.

Mordecai Kaplan's religious naturalism ( Reconstructionist Judaism ) used to have an influential place in the movement, but since Reconstructionism developed as an independent movement, this influence has waned.

Frustrated by the perceived dominance of the more traditionalist voices at JTS, Kaplan's followers decided that the ideas of Reconstructionism would be better served through the creation of a separate denomination.

Although such influence ( particularly of Reconstructionism ) has been described by many authors, full adherents to Reconstructionism are few and marginalized among conservative Christians.

Greek religion has experienced a number of revivals, in the arts, humanities and spirituality of the Renaissance as well as with the contemporary Hellenic Reconstructionism, or " Hellenismos " as it is sometimes called ( a term first used by the last pagan Roman emperor Julian the Apostate ).

Some Christian scholars, such as Gleason Archer and Norman Geisler, have dedicated much of their time to the attempt to resolve these perceived difficulties, while others have argued that just punishments ( divine or human ), even capital punishments, are not genocide or murder because murder and genocide are unjustified by definition ( see Christian Reconstructionism ).

In the United States, the most prominent and organized forms of postmillennialism are based on Christian Reconstructionism and hold to a reconstructionist form of postmillennialism advanced by Gary North, Kenneth Gentry, and Greg Bahnsen.

The expression is used by modern Christian scholars, such as Ziesler and Mount, whose interest is in the recovery of Christian origins and the contribution made by Paul to Christian doctrine, Christian Reconstructionism and Restorationism.

The social structure advocated by Christian Reconstructionism would have the clergy, laity and government, individually and corporately, to be in ultimate submission to the moral principles of the Bible, including the Old Testament, while retaining their separate jurisdictional spheres of authority and roles in society as inferred from principles of biblical law, both Old and New Testaments.

It is the claim of Christian Reconstructionism that even as under the Davidic administration of the Israelites, the Priests ( Levitical line ) and Kings ( Davidic line ) were distinguished by their scopes of authority ( e. g., the King could not offer sacrifices for others and the Priests could not pass or enforce legislation ) and their roles in society ( e. g., the King maintained the social welfare and the Priests maintained personal welfare ), so it should be in a modern Christian Reconstructionist society.

While many Christians believe that biblical law is a guide to morality and public ethics, when interpreted in faith, Reconstructionism is unique in advocating that civil law should be derived from and limited by biblical law.

The Protestant theologian Francis Schaeffer is linked with the movement by some critics, but some Reconstructionist thinkers are highly critical of Schaeffer's positions and he himself disavowed any connection or affiliation with Reconstructionism, though he did cordially correspond with Rushdoony on occasion.

The most prominent modern formulation of Dominion Theology is Christian Reconstructionism, founded by R. J. Rushdoony in the 1970s.

Since the mid-1970s, the term Theonomy has been most often used in Protestant circles to specifically label the ethical perspective of Christian Reconstructionism, a perspective that claims to be a faithful revival of the historic Protestant view of the Old Testament law as espoused by many European Reformers and Puritans.

" Author Karen Armstrong sees a potential for fascism in Christian Reconstructionism, and claims that the system of dominion envisaged by Christian Reconstructionist theologians R. J. Rushdoony and Gary North is totalitarian: " There is no room for any other view or policy, no democratic tolerance for rival parties, no individual freedom.

* What we mean by Celtic Reconstructionism: Statement from Imbas

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

* April 25 – R. J. Rushdoony, American founder of Christian Reconstructionism ( d. 2001 )

As such, various modern scholars have begun to apply the term to three groups of separate faiths: Historical Polytheism ( such as Celtic polytheism, Norse Paganism, the Cultus Deorum Romanorum and Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism also called Hellenismos ), Folk / ethnic / Indigenous religions ( such as Chinese folk religion and African traditional religion ), and Neopaganism ( such as Wicca and Germanic Neopaganism ).

Although many authors have described such influence ( particularly of Reconstructionism ),

It had ties to a number of other groups including World MAP ( Ralph Mahoney ), California ; Christian Growth Ministries, Fort Lauderdale ; and Rousas Rushdoony, the father of Christian Reconstructionism in the United States.

Celtic Reconstructionism represents a polytheistic reconstructionist approach to Celtic Neopaganism, emphasising historical accuracy over eclecticism such as is found in many forms of Neo-druidism.

In Celtic Reconstructionism, Lughnasadh is seen as a time to give thanks to the spirits and deities for the beginning of the harvest season, and to propitiate them with offerings and prayers not to harm the still-ripening crops.

* Possibly coined the term " Pagan Reconstructionism ", though the communities in question would later diverge from his initial meaning.

Protection of property and life needs grounding in biblical law, according to Reconstructionism, or the state set free from the restraint of God's law will take what it wishes at a whim.

Dave Hunt, Hal Lindsey, and Thomas Ice specifically criticize Christian Reconstructionism from a Christian viewpoint, disagreeing on theological grounds with its theocratic elements as well as its Calvinism and postmillennialism.

On the Neopagan continuum from eclectic to reconstructionist, Celtic Wicca is at the eclectic end: as historically inaccurate as most forms of Neo-druidism, and contrasting firmly with Celtic Reconstructionism, which emphasizes cultural focus and historical accuracy.

It differentiated itself from Reformed preterism and Christian Reconstructionism in view of postmodern issues facing the Emerging Church and the need to forward its scholarship in the context of historical Jesus studies.

Greek Reconstructionism.

Reconstructionism rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

* Samhain: Season of Death and Renewal-Celtic Studies and Reconstructionism.

* Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis, on the premise that all the main movements are legitimate expressions of Judaism, will accept the legitimacy of other rabbis ' leadership, though will not accept their views on Jewish law, since Reform and Reconstructionism reject Halakha as binding.

Reconstructionism denies that God is either personal or supernatural.

* Platform on Reconstructionism FRC Newsletter, Sept. 1986

In the early 1990s, sociologist Sara Diamond and journalist Frederick Clarkson defined dominionism as a movement that, while including Dominion Theology and Reconstructionism as subsets, is much broader in scope, extending to much of the Christian Right.

Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism ( also Hellenic Reconstructionism ) refers to various reconstructionist movements that revive ancient Greek religious practices, emerging since the 1990s.

Hellenic Reconstructionism exists in Greece and in other countries.

Arguably, Spinozan Averroism went on to influence Jewish Conservatism and Reconstructionism.