At 33 years of age Dr. Adi Schlebusch has revealed himself to be someone God has raised up for his generation to continue the work of post tenebras lux for Western Civilization and unto the end of counter-revolution for the current Endarkenment West. Dr. Schlebusch is the real McCoy in a time where real McCoys are uncommon.
Adi’s latest effort is a small book titled, “Assailing the Gates of Hell; Christianity at War with the Left.” This book serves as an excellent primer that condenses a great deal of history in a general sweep for the purpose of giving the reader a birds eye view of where we currently are in the West, how we got here, who our main enemies are, and the Church’s responsibility to take the war to the enemy, hammer and tong so that the enemy is given no rest.
Dr. Schlebusch is just the right person to have written this book. He is a polymath who has read his Groen van Prinsterer, his Kuyper, his Dabney, his Rushdooney and a host of other counter-revolutionaries from history who before us fought the long battle against the darkness. Quotes from these luminaries are sprinkled throughout the work. That Dr. Schlebusch is familiar with these heroes of the faith is important because the need to do the work of the counter-revolutionary requires being familiar with the saints who have gone before us and in the warp and woof of historical theology there are not that many anti-revolutionaries to whom we can turn.
As, already noted this book is not intended to be exhaustive on the subject. It is intended to be a primer. If someone desires to dig deep there are any number of other works that can be accessed. Allow me to list some of those for the hungry reader. Books like Dr. C. Gregg Singer’s “From Rationality to Rationalism,” is a good history of ideas in the West book. Dr. Glenn R. Martin’s “Prevailing Worldviews of Western Society Since 1500,” is another great book that explains how we got here. Francis Nigel Lee’s “Communist Eschatology,” explains exhaustively the mindset and intent of the enemy. Dr. Groen Van Prinsterer’s “Unbelief and Revolution,” should also be consulted. Next, R. L. Dabney’s “Secular Discussions” is a must read for this subject matter. Finally, Dr. R. J. Rushdoony’s work should be consulted when trying to understand the times and what should be done. Anybody wanting to go deeper in what Dr. Schelbusch begins to explore would do well to find their big boy reading glasses and give these books their friendship.
Dr. Schlebusch works in keeping with these heroes of the faith. His book is condensed into five tight chapters following the opening Introduction;
1.) Liberalism; The History of an Idea
2.) Marxism: The Revolution Against Revelation
3.) Cultural Marxism’s Subversive Onslaught Against Christianity
4.) How the Current Crisis Came to Be
5.) A Declaration of War: Our Calling and Duty as the Church Militant
In the Introduction Dr. Schlebusch makes a connection between Leftism and Liberalism that finds him arguing that Liberalism was the chicken that laid the egg of leftism. He notes how the period of the Endarkenment is a continuous piece connecting the French Government of 1794 with the Canadian government of 2022. Dr. Schlebusch briefly teases this out to tell us that the purpose of the book is to counter the subversive strategies of the Left that have been pursued to destroy Christianity while at the same time embracing strategies that will flip the script so that the Christian church might go on the offensive to the end of utterly pulverizing the enemies of the kingdom of God. The “how did we get here” parts of the book are only prologue to the “we need to smash and grind into powder the enemies of Christ and the Church,” part of the book.
Chapter 1 finds Dr. Schlebusch connecting the history of liberalism with the lie of the serpent in the garden. In the garden the serpent told man he could be his own God by ignoring God, and so make himself the measure of all things (Homo Mensura). That same lie was at the foundation of the so-called Enlightenment project and like the triumph of that lie in the garden so the Enlightenment was the historical incarnation of the triumph of the lie in history. Dr. Schlebusch explains that the Enlightenment was in point of fact a Endarkenment of the human soul raised as it was against the previous Reformation historical epoch. Dr. Schlebusch gives us the philosophical roots of the ascent of the godless self demonstrating how that Western Philosophy was in contradiction to Biblical Christianity. Along the way Dr. Schlebusch gives us the origins of the impulse toward our current plague of egalitarianism. He also undresses chaps like Dr. Kevin DeYoung who has no business seeking to speak authoritatively on this subject preferring instead the counsel of Rushdoony, Voetius, Augustine, and Bernard of Clairvaux.
Dr. Schlebusch then fastens the French Revolution as the natural and inevitable consequence of the Enlightenment, while at the same time exposing that the Enlightenment gets far too much credit for Western civilization. Here Schlebusch invokes the help of Rushdoony, Dabney, van Prinesterer, Lee and Nesta Webster’s classic work. Dr. Schlebush lists “the Reforms” brought into France upon the fall of the aristocracy demonstrating that what resulted was a Republic set on the principles of humanism established in hatred of Christianity. Reality was sat on its head. The porn of the Marquis de Sade was esteemed. Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality only existed as informed by the structures of an anti-Christ world and life view. A anti-biblical family mindset was established and politics would always be from the left even when pursued from “the right.”
In this Introduction and first chapter Dr. Schlebusch has quickly laid down the the fact that we are where we are now because everything is being interpreted through a Mephistophelian world and life view as established by the overturning of the 1st and 2nd Reformations by the hilariously mislabeled “Enlightenment.”
