Reading List On Christian Political Theory

Rev. Bret L. McAtee,

I did a quick perusal on your blog but didn’t see anything, do you have anywhere a reading list for Christian political theory?

Dear Casey,

Here are a few books I’ve read that come immediately to mind;

Institutes of Biblical Law –Rushdoony
Law & Revolution (Two Volumes) — Harold Berman
Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger & the Covenantal Tradition – McCoy/Baker
Lex Rex — Samuel Rutherford
The Law — Frederic Bastiat
The Hebrew Republic: The Matrix for America’s Civil Government — E. C. Wines
Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
The One & The Many — Rushdoony
The One, the Three and the Many — Colin Gunton
Considerations on France — Joseph de Maistre
The Dispossessed Majority — Wilmot Robertson
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning & Destiny of Liberalism — James Burnham

Leviathan & It’s Enemies — Samuel T. Francis
Christianity & Civilization (III Volumes) — James Jordan / Gary North
Millennialism and Social Theory — Dr. Gary North

I would also add something on how Bagels are a canker that eat away at Christian political order.

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I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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