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The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This text explores the notion that every social order rests on a creed—a concept of life and law—and represents a religion in action. The basic faith of a society means growth in terms of that faith. Rushdoony argues that because of its indifference to its creedal basis in biblical Christianity, Western civilization is today facing death in its struggle with humanism. Just as when a foundation is...

seems senseless to those who fail to realize that destruction is basic to revolutionary faith. This hatred of certainty was a major factor in the Roman Empire and its anti-Christianity, and it was a major aspect of the infiltrating humanism then and now. The humanistic parties did everything possible to bring uncertainty to the faith, to render vague the doctrines of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, to cloud with uncertainty the doctrines of creation, salvation, and judgment.
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