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Baptized Patriarchalism: The Cult of the Family Paperback – January 1, 1995

by Gary North (Author)

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Institute for Christian Econom (January 1, 1995)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 77 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0930464710
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0930464714
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces

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Darkzach

Required reading for anyone familiar with R.J. Rushdoony

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2014

This book should be required reading for anyone who likes or has read R.J. Rushdoony. This book chronicles his changes in orthodox protestant theology in the 1960's to that of Anabaptist/family cult theology by the 1990's. He went from a classical view of the Church to a racist low-church ecclesiology that made the blood of the family equal to the covenant. Dr. North shows John Calvin's doctrines to contrast Rushdoony's views of the Church.

Rushdoony came to believe that marrying someone of another race is prohibited and equivalent to marrying an unbeliever - something that goes in the face of us being an adopted family of God by the waters of baptism, where there is neither Jew nor Greek. He also came to believe that fathers should baptise and give the Lords supper to their children, and that family patriarchalism is the way to combat state power. This leads to Warlordism/Mafiaism. If every father is a priest and the absolute ruler of his own miniature home church, making his own laws, and refuses accountability to anyone above him, how is this not different from the concept of the Roman pater familias, where the father controlled the life and death of the entire family?

The answer is that the Church is central to community life, with accountability to elders. Only the Christian Church can combat both the ancient pagan heresy of racial/family patriarchalism *and* the all powerful civil state. The blood family is not eternal, and it should not be made a cult. The adopted family of God though, is eternal through the blood of Christ. The water of baptism is thicker than blood.

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C. Vernon Crisler

Baptized Ecclesiocentricism

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013

Unfortunately, what might have been a valuable critique of some of Rushdoony's teachings is marred by the fact that North, when writing the book, was an advocate of "Tyler theology" or what is now known as the "Federal Vision." This theological outlook has been condemned by the OPC, PCA, and by a number of Reformed thinkers. It is essentially ecclesiastical tyranny.

Readers should also be warned that North had a personal grudge against Rushdoony (his father-in-law). Rushdoony "fired" North for promoting some weird stuff written by James B Jordan -- who has been called the "godfather" of the Federal Vision.

Rushdoony had a number of problems but one overriding aspect of his thought that comes through more than ever -- and one that I noticed long ago, and a trait that the EARLY North shared with Rushdoony -- was an unyielding opposition to legalism in all its forms. It is too bad North lost that early opposition and decided to write a book which is legalistic to the core.