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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...

centering on the divine power and glory of the emperor. Everything was done to suggest the glory of God in the person of the emperor. A bronze tree, gilded over, whose branches were filled with mechanical gilded birds which uttered cries according to their species, stood before the throne. The throne was surrounded by mechanical lions which roared and beat their tails, and the throne arose toward the ceiling while the mortals approaching the throne made their three obeisances to the emperor with
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