General Subject Headings

The "Archetypes" of Micah's Prophecy

• The Vine & Fig Tree Vision:
  • No State
  • No Church
  • Godly People -- Everywhere
• History
  • Patriarchy: The History of the Family vs. Church & State
  • Anabaptists
  • Vine & Fig Tree in history
• Law
  • Death Penalty
  • Debasement of the Currency
  • Separation of Church and State
  • Christians for a Test Oath
  • Ten Commandments
• New Society
  • Pacifism
  • CAUSE -- Christians Against the U.S. Empire
  • Virtue
  • Christian Conciliation Manifesto
• Theology
  • Predestination
• Definitions

1. Victory

The Kingdom is Now.
The Gospel is not Escape

2. Catholicism

The Future is Glorious
The Kingdom is not the Church

3. Theonomy

Law: God's is Life; Man's is Death
God's Law has not been abolished

4. Peace

Peace is possible
The State is not divine

5. Family

The Home is Central
The Family is not "Victorian"

6. Garden

Eden is being restored
The City is not Normal

7. Community

Faith Works through Love

The Individual is not an Island

95 Theses Against the New World Order

• Index to The Christmas Conspiracy
• The Archetypes of The Christmas Conspiracy
• The Christmas Conspiracy - Contents
• The Christmas Conspiracy FAQ

• The Bible
• The Kingdom
• The Victory
• God's Law
• Peace
• Family
• Garden
• Community

ONE: VICTORY

TWO: "POSTMILLENNIALISM" --
The Universal Triumph of the Gospel in History

2. Who Were the Anabaptists?
Different Groups Distinguished * New Sources of Anabaptist History * The Medieval Church * The Medieval Reformers

3. In Praise of Humanism
The Tenets of Humanism * Humanism and the Establishment * Reformation and Accreditation

4. Anabaptists and Heresy
Anarchy * Revolution * Pacifism * Communism * Perfectionism

5. Anabaptists and Orthodoxy
Biblicism * Trinitarianism * Justification * Sanctification * Humility

6. Baptism and Statism
Mode of Baptism * Members of the Church * Infant Baptism

7. When Did Protestantism Begin?
The Great Reformation Flip-Flop * Waiting for the State (or someone like him) * Acts 5:29

8. Pagan Education and the Reformers
Calvin: Ambition * Seminary * Law School * Classics * Parallels in Zwingli:

9. The De-Education of the Anabaptists
Ambition * University * Education under Zwingli * Rejection of Paganism * Berean Mentality (Acts 17:11) * Obedience and Systems

10. Politics from Seneca to Calvin
Conversion and Humanism * State and Freedom * State and Spirit * The Organic State * The State Glorified * Parallels in Zwingli

11. Theonomy and Justification by Faith
The Church vs. The Gospel * Living Faith * Doctrine and Obedience

12. Statism and Justification by Faith
Doctrinal Diversions * Doctrine from the Outside

13. From Victory to Defeat: The Reformers and Theonomy
Westminster and Fascism * Natural Law * The Expansion of the Faith * Lang * Rushdoony * Nelson

14. Should We Celebrate Reformation Day?
Universal Priesthood and Reform * The Myths of Theology * Rome and Justification

15. Deformed Reform
The Early Reformers * The Threatened Reformers * The Later Reformers

16. The State as Pastor
Calvin and the "Reconstructionists" * The Ninth Commandment * Crushing the Opposition

17. Macho Theology
Verbal Pyrotechnics * Intimidation * Coercion * Politics and Put-Downs

18. Police State, Police Church
Omnipotent Regulation * Socialism as Discipline * Winning Through Intimidation

19. Plato and Calvin: Artistry in Dictatorship
Plato's Laws * Empire Medieval * Roman Law and Plato's Laws * Momentary Reform * Power vs. Reform * "Anabaptists!" * Plato Resurrected

20. A Legacy of Compulsion
Through One Man's Eyes * Luther * Calvin * The Puritans * The Pendulum Swings

21. Fascism and the Reformation
Fascism Defined * Westminster's Arguments Against God's Law * Fascism and the New "Christian Right"

• Patriarchy, Church and Worship
• Patriarchy and Obedience
• The Duties of the Pastor
• Ordination and Patriarchy
• The Pastoral Functions of an Attorney at Law

A Summary of Each Essay Below is Found Here

Essay No.

1.  INTRODUCTION

PATRIARCHY, CHURCH, AND WORSHIP

2.  Life-as-worship vs. Institutional "Worship"
3.  Patriarchy and Community
4.  Revolution, Repentance, and Redemption

5.  Revolution and Church History
6.  History and the Hidden Patriarchs

7.  Who Were the True Reformers? (The Priesthood of All Believers)

9.  Objection -- Believer-Priests in the Old Testament

11.  Christian Radicalism

PATRIARCHY AND OBEDIENCE

12.  Authority, Submission, and Obedience in the New Covenant

14.  Objection -- On Being "Willing to Obey"

15.  "The Depravity of Man" and the Fear of Patriarchy
16.  Spontaneous Obedience
17.  The Promise of World-Wide Patriarchy
18.  The End of Teachers
19.  "The Pastor" vs. The Patriarch

THE DUTIES OF THE PASTOR

Duties Relating to Scripture Dissemination

20.  The Bible: Monopolies and Famines
21.  Pastors Must Pray
23.  Pastors Must Read the Bible
25.  Pastors Must Feed the Flock
27.  Pastors Must Catechize
29.  Pastors Must Comfort
31.  Pastors Must Exhort
33.  Pastors Must Convince
35.  Pastors Must Teach

37.  Are You "Apt to Teach"?

Pastors Must Preach

38.  Word Study

39.  Objection -- The delivery of Religious Lectures

40.  Lexical Observations by Craig A. Evans
41.  Biblical Styles of Preaching and Teaching

42.  Pulpits and Peripatetics - The Greek Origin of the Sermon

44.  The Primacy of the Preacher (by James B. Jordan).

45.  What is "Authoritative Preaching"?
46.  Who Should Excommunicate?

47.  Pastors Must be Mysterious

Duties Relating to Rule and Discipline [?]

48.  Pastors Must Administer the Sacraments

Traditional Considerations

50.  Objection -- "Sacerdotalism"
51.  What is Sacerdotalism?
52.  The Sacraments as "Discipline"
53.  Sacramental Retrogression?

Sacraments in the New Age

54.  Sacraments and the Sacral Society
55.  Baptism: Spirit vs. Water
56.  "Till I Come": The Parousia and the "Christian Passover"
57.  Footwashing and Shallow Sacramentalism

58.  Pastors Must Bless
59.  Pastors Must Take Care of the Poor

60.  Charity and Church Government

61.  Pastors Must Be An Example
63.  Pastors Must "Oversee"

65.  Objection -- Clergy in I Peter 5:1-6
66.  Objection -- Office or Function?

68.  Pastors Must Lord it Over the Flock

69.  Statism in the Churches
70.  Objection -- Elders in the Old and New Testaments
71.  Objection -- Spiritual vs. Appointed Elders
72.  Objection -- Pastors: Among vs. Over.
73.  Equality as a training ground for Leadership
74.  Robes in Review

75.  Pastors Are Worthy of Double Honor

ORDINATION AND PATRIARCHY

76.  Ordination

77.  Objection -- On God's Desire for Empires

79.  Ordination in the Westminster Standards

80.  The Laying on of Hands

81.  Objection -- Its True Purpose

82.  Study Questions -- Hands and Voting

83.  Are Presbyterians Democrats? 

84.  Perpetual and Ordinary Officers

85.  Ad Hoc Authority vs. Institutionalism

86.  Natural Ordination

87.  Amateurism and Professionalism

88. CONCLUSIONS

APPENDICES

151.  Gary North: "Family Authority vs. Protestant Sacerdotalism"

152.  James B. Jordan: "God's Hospitality and Holistic Evangelism"

Every man a Lawyer -- No man a lawyer
THE CHRISTIAN LAWYER AND THE LAW OF GOD
Showing the Pastoral Functions of an Attorney at Law

In their own way, every vocation has pastoral responsibilities. The Attorney is but one example.

 

189.  What is "Theonomy"?

190.  What is "Law"?

191.  Every Man a Lawyer

192.  The "Theonomic" Lawyer

193.  The "Judicial Law"

194.  Unconditional Surrender and the "Attorney"

195.  The Sacerdotal Attorney

THE DUTIES OF THE PATRIARCH/LAWYER

Now we parallel our discussion of the "Pastor's" duties by examining the same list of duties in "The Form of Presbyterial Government" and showing how those responsibilities are particularly incumbent upon any who would take upon themselves the mantle of "Christian Attorney."

Duties Relating to the Dissemination of Scripture

196.  Lawyers: Keys and Closed Doors

197.  The Shepherding Lawyer Must Pray

199.  The Pastoring Lawyer Must Read the Bible.

200.  The Pro-nomian Pastor Must Feed the Flock

202.  Pastoral Lawyers Must Catechize

204.  Christ-like Attorneys Must Comfort

206.  Shepherding Lawyers Must Exhort

208.  Pro-Nomian Patriarchs Must Convince.

210.  Shepherding Attorneys Must Teach

212.  Pastoral Lawyers Must Preach

214.  Christian Attorneys Must NOT Be Mysterious

Duties Relating to Rule and Discipline [?]

215.  Shepherding Lawyers Must Administer the Sacraments

Traditional Considerations

216.  Baptism -- The Covenant Sign of Unconditional Attorn

218.  The Lord's Supper -- Communion and Government 

Sacraments in the New Age

219.  Jeremiah 31: The End of Sacraments

220.  Theo-Nomic Pastors Must Bless 

221.  Pastoral Lawyers Must Take Care of the Poor

122.  Justice and Poverty

224.  Shepherding Attorneys Must Be an Example

226.  Patriarch/Lawyers Must "Oversee"

228.  The Servant-Lawyer Must Shepherd

230.  Doctrinally-sound Attorneys are Worthy of Double Honor

231.  Law and Doctrine

232.  Working for a Living

THE LEGAL MINISTER
PATRIARCHY AS RIVAL GOVERNMENT/LAW-SYSTEM

234.  Law, Religion, and State

The Attorney as Patriarch

235.  Government and the Patriarch

236.  Elders, Lawyers, and Judges

237.  Levites and Lawyers

The Lawyer as "Church Officer"

238.  The Myth of the "Separation of Church and State"

239.  The Lawyer as Priest

240.  The Magisterial Pastor

241.  The War of the Pastors

242.  Excommunication and the Lawyer

The Lawyer as Reconciler

243.  The Legal Pimp

244.  The Theonomic Lawyer

245.  Resolving Disputes in the Home Church

Legal Mediation and Arbitration in I Corinthians 6

246.  The Arbitrators

247.  State Enforcement of Church Arbitration

248.  Arbitration and the "Rash Vow"

249.  The "Local Church" vs. The Christian Conciliation Service

250.  Punishment, Criminal Defense, and Patriarchy 

THREE: GOD'S LAW-WORD

FOUR: PEACE

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