Editing Reformed Christianity (section)

=== Christian Reconstructionism ===
{{Main|Christian Reconstructionism}}
Christian Reconstructionism is a [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalist]]<ref>{{cite conference |title=Moses' Law for Modern Government |last=Duncan |first=J. Ligon III |url=http://www.reformed.org/ethics/index.html?mainframe=/ethics/ligon_duncan_critique.html |date=15 October 1994 |conference=Annual national meeting of the Social Science History Association |location=Atlanta, U.S. |author-link=Ligon Duncan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130075203/http://www.reformed.org/ethics/index.html?mainframe=%2Fethics%2Fligon_duncan_critique.html |archive-date=30 November 2012  |access-date=23 August 2013}}</ref> Calvinist [[theonomic]] movement that has remained rather obscure.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Religiously Motivated Violence in the Abortion Debate |pages=316–317 |last=Ingersoll |first=Julie |title=The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence |author-link=Julie Ingersoll|year=2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |editor1-first=Mark |editor1-last=Juergensmeyer |editor1-link=Mark Juergensmeyer |editor2-first=Margo |editor2-last=Kitts |editor3-first=Michael |editor3-last=Jerryson |location=New York |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0020 |isbn=978-0-19-975999-6 }}</ref> Founded by [[R. J. Rushdoony]], the movement has had an important influence on the [[Christian right|Christian Right]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clarkson |first=Frederick |author-link=Frederick Clarkson |chapter=Christian Reconstructionism |editor-last=Berlet |editor-first=Chip |editor-link=Chip Berlet |title=Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash |year=1995 |location=Boston |publisher=[[South End Press]] |page=73 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fl6Ix9HFKQEC&pg=PA73 |isbn=978-0-89608-523-7 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ingersoll |first=Julie |editor1-last=Brint |editor1-first=Steven |editor2-last=Schroedel|editor2-first=Jean Reith |title=Evangelicals and Democracy in America: Religion and politics |volume=2 |chapter=Mobilizing Evangelicals: Christian Reconstructionism and the Roots of the Religious Right |year=2009 |location=New York |publisher=[[Russell Sage Foundation]] |page=180 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-QRWP4FlVEC&pg=PA180 |isbn=978-0-87154-068-3 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> The movement peaked in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Worthen |first1=Molly |author-link=Molly Worthen |doi=10.1017/S0009640708000590 |title=The Chalcedon Problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the Origins of Christian Reconstructionism |journal=[[Church History (magazine)|Church History]] |volume=77 |issue=2 |year=2008 |pages=399–437 |s2cid=153625926}}</ref> However, it lives on in small denominations such as the [[Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States]] and as a minority position in other denominations. Christian Reconstructionists are usually [[postmillennialist]]s and followers of the [[presuppositional apologetics]] of [[Cornelius Van Til]]. They tend to support a decentralized political order resulting in [[laissez-faire]] capitalism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=North |first1=Gary |title=Christian Reconstruction: What it Is, what it Isn't |last2=DeMar |first2=Gary |date=1991 |publisher=Institute for Christian Economics |location=Tyler, Texas, U.S. |page=81 |language=en-us}}</ref>