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FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 168 episodes available.
July 02, 2026Prophet, Priest, King & Education (Remastered)This address defends Christian education as obedience to Christ’s total lordship, rejecting the charge that it “deflects from the gospel” by insisting that no area of life or knowledge is neutral and that Christ, not the state, is Lord. Because all creation belongs to God, every subject—science, mathematics, medicine, language, and the arts—must be taught in submission to His Word, not treated as autonomous or secular. Humanistic education falsely claims neutrality, redefines freedom apart from Christ, treats all problems as social rather than theological, and turns schooling into a rival system of salvation aimed at self-realization rather than the glory of God. By contrast, Christian education flows from Christ’s kingship and the believer’s calling to be priest, prophet, and king: priests who dedicate every subject to God, prophets who interpret all knowledge by Scripture, and kings who exercise dominion under Christ. The lecture argues that Christian schools are raising leaders rather than rebels, that humanism inevitably produces barbarism even among the highly educated, and that compromise reduces the gospel to mere “fire insurance.” Faithful education therefore proceeds from necessity, not preference, advancing the Kingdom with confidence that the Church is on the offensive and that the gates of hell cannot hold out against Christ’s lordship.#ChristianEducation #ChristIsLord #NoNeutralFacts #BiblicalWorldview #PriestProphetKing #AgainstHumanism #Dominion #KingdomOfGod #EducationAndFaith #GatesOfHell...more38minPlay
June 30, 2026The Biblical Approach to Economics (Remastered)This lecture presents economics as inherently religious, showing that humanism begins in Genesis 3:5 with man’s desire to be his own god and expresses itself today through fiat law, fiat money, and fiat economics, all of which create inflation, disorder, and false wealth. In contrast, biblical economics flows from the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:26–28 and rests on four foundations: faithful obedience and godly character, knowledge as an aspect of the image of God, productive labor as a blessing rather than a curse, and capital built through patience, saving, and intergenerational stewardship. Economic decline follows when faith collapses, envy replaces discipline, and productivity is destroyed, while humanistic systems substitute political power and “works of law” for real work, producing unemployment and social decay and demanding state control of education and knowledge. Christians are therefore not called to pursue wealth as an end in itself, but to use wealth as a tool of stewardship, bringing every area of economic life into submission to God rather than to man-made authority.#BiblicalEconomics #DominionMandate #NoFiatMoney #FaithAndWork #ChristianWorldview #Stewardship #AgainstHumanism #GodsLaw #EconomicsAndFaith #BiblicalAuthority...more48minPlay
June 25, 2026History as a Theological Science (Remastered)This session argues that faith reshapes every area of life, so education cannot be neutral: Christianity produces “history” (meaningful, ordered, God-governed events), while humanism produces “social science” (man’s attempt to control and predestine society without God). True history assumes God’s sovereign acts—Creation, Incarnation, and the Second Coming—as the frame and direction of all events, so providence turns even man’s wrath to God’s praise and all things to good for God’s people; humanism, denying that order, treats events as chance and therefore demands total state planning, making “freedom obsolete” because an experiment requires control. History must therefore be taught as a theological science with Scripture as its basic framework, including its essential chronology, and even terms like “Renaissance” and “Enlightenment” are shown as humanistic propaganda describing a long revolution “from Christ to Adam,” i.e., from supernatural man to natural man. The lecture contrasts Isis’s veil-over-the-future with Christ as Alpha and Omega, insists that God and His Word judge all things (not the other way around), and frames the conflict as total war between God-as-absolute and man-as-absolute, with Psalm 2 as the biblical philosophy of history: nations conspire, God laughs, the Son reigns, and rulers are commanded to submit. In Q&A, Lincoln is described as a Deist reshaped by reading systematic theology but not clearly converted; the Reformation is presented as largely anti-Renaissance because the Renaissance papacy was openly humanistic; modern humanism is linked strongly to Plato and Aristotle’s state-centered ethics; and both Franklin and Jefferson are sharply criticized as overrated Deists, while Patrick Henry is held up as a decisive, openly Christian statesman whose faith and strategic action secured America’s westward future.#HistoryAsTheologicalScience #NoNeutralEducation #BiblicalWorldview #Providence #Predestination #AgainstHumanism #Psalm2 #ChristianEducation #SocialScienceVsHistory #ChristIsLord...more54minPlay
June 23, 2026Mathematics (Remastered)This session argues that mathematics is inherently religious, not neutral, because every fact, number, and law of logic exists within a God-created order and bears witness to its Creator. Rejecting the Enlightenment myth of autonomous reason, it shows that mathematics depends on the biblical solution to the problem of the one and the many, resolved only in the doctrine of the Trinity, without which numbers collapse either into meaningless unity or chaotic plurality. Modern “new math” and relativistic science are exposed as deliberate attempts to deny a pre-established world, enthroning man as creator and reducing mathematics to a mental game detached from reality, truth, and meaning. Against this, the Christian position insists that the order of the human mind corresponds to the order of the physical world because both are created by the same sovereign God, making mathematical truth possible, intelligible, and applicable. The conclusion is stark and practical: mathematics must be taught as part of God’s revealed order, not as an atheistic abstraction, because when numbers are divorced from God, they lose meaning, coherence, and ultimately their power to explain or govern the world.#BiblicalWorldview #PhilosophyOfMathematics #NoNeutralFacts #TheOneAndTheMany #TrinitarianFoundation #ChristianEducation #AgainstNewMath #GodCreatedOrder #FaithAndReason #AllTruthIsGods...more45minPlay
June 18, 2026Economics, Money, and Hope: Part III (Remastered)This session contends that economics rises or falls with the strength of the trustee family, not with state policy or abstract theory, exposing the Enlightenment myth that “reason” and social order exist only apart from God as ideological nonsense designed to justify hostility toward any institution not created by human fiat. Drawing on Zimmerman and Unwin, the argument shows that civilizations flourish when the family governs property, inheritance, children, welfare, and education, weaken when the state intrudes, and collapse when the atomistic family replaces covenantal continuity, sexual discipline erodes, and loyalty to past and future is severed. The trustee family is presented not merely as a household but as a corporate, covenantal entity—a living trust that outlasts individuals and serves as the primary engine of capitalization, productivity, and social energy, explaining both why totalitarian systems seek to destroy it and why disciplined Christian families consistently produce the most resilient, productive citizens. The remedy is practical and strategic: recover family-held property, strengthen community and trust structures, reclaim education and welfare from the state, and recognize that the reconquest of society through economics begins not with centralized power but with restored families exercising dominion under God.#TrusteeFamily #BiblicalEconomics #FamilyAsPowerCenter #Recapitalization #ChristianReconstruction #CovenantalOrder #AgainstStatism #PropertyAndInheritance #Dominion #KingdomEconomics...more44minPlay
June 16, 2026Economics, Money, and Hope: Part II (Remastered)This session exposes inflation as a moral disease before it is an economic one, rooted in fiat money, statist power, and a humanistic belief that value can be created by decree rather than by work, thrift, and godly character. When money is severed from real wealth, it becomes a tool of theft, rewarding debtors, punishing the faithful, and financing cultural decay—from foreign Marxist regimes to domestic moral revolutions—while quietly enslaving nations through unpayable loans. Inflation is shown not as an accident or policy mistake, but as institutionalized larceny, driven by bad theology, antinomianism, and the rejection of God’s law-order. Yet the message is not despair: the lecture insists that true recovery comes through recapitalization of people, beginning with repentance, Christian education, disciplined households, and the rebuilding of character-capital that can sustain a godly economy. As statist systems rot under their own madness, a counter-movement is already rising—Christian families, schools, and churches preparing to reclaim the future because the earth, and its wealth, still belong to the Lord.#MoneyAndMorality #InflationIsTheft #FiatMoney #BiblicalEconomics #DebtSlavery #AgainstStatism #ChristianReconstruction #CapitalAndCharacter #LawOfGod #FaithAndFinance #Chalcedon #TheEarthIsTheLords...more38minPlay
June 11, 2026Economics, Money, and Hope: Part I (Remastered)This opening session argues that economic collapse is not accidental but moral, the predictable fruit of a statist, fiat-driven world that has abandoned God’s created order. Using Christ’s parable of the steward, the teaching confronts Christian other-worldliness and insists that faithful stewardship of money is a spiritual requirement, not a worldly distraction. Humanistic economics treats reality as something man can remake by decree—fiat money, fiat law, fiat planning—but Scripture declares a law-governed universe where debt enslaves, inflation punishes thrift, and judgment is built into disobedience itself. The modern debt mountain—personal, corporate, and governmental—is portrayed as borrowing against a future that is now running out, making inflation the false “salvation” of a bankrupt order. Yet this crisis is framed as a salvation-judgment: God clearing the ground for reconstruction. The Christian hope is not political tinkering but recapitalization—material, moral, and spiritual—through hard money, thrift, work, character, and obedience to God’s law, laying the foundation for a renewed Christian social order.#BiblicalEconomics #ChristianReconstruction #DebtAndJudgment #AgainstFiatMoney #Stewardship #GodsLawOrder #EconomicCrisis #HardMoney #ThriftAndWork #FaithAndEconomics #Chalcedon #HopeThroughObedience...more36minPlay
June 09, 2026Abraham and Sarah: A Normative Marriage (Remastered)This session presents Abraham and Sarah as Scripture’s model—or “normative”—marriage, not because it was easy or sentimental, but because it was forged through responsibility, obedience, and costly decision-making under God. Sarah, whose very name signifies authority, was no passive figure; she commanded decisively when right and submitted faithfully when obedience to God required it, even in terrifying circumstances like Egypt. Abraham’s much-criticized decision is reframed as an act of covenant responsibility, not cowardice—choosing life, calling, and the messianic promise over suicidal idealism. The lesson cuts against modern chivalric myths and romanticized marriage: biblical manhood is not self-destruction for emotion’s sake, but burden-bearing leadership accountable to God, while biblical womanhood is neither silence nor domination, but faithful alignment with God’s order. Together, Abraham and Sarah show that marriage is refined through trial, discipline, and maturity, revealing that true authority is never abdicated, never autonomous, and never separated from obedience to God’s redemptive purposes.#AbrahamAndSarah #NormativeMarriage #BiblicalMarriage #AuthorityAndResponsibility #CovenantLife #HeadshipUnderGod #SarahAsModel #BiblicalManhood #BiblicalWomanhood #FaithUnderFire #ResponsibilityMatters #MarriageAndCalling...more23minPlay
June 04, 2026Marriage and Property (Remastered)This session delivers a forgotten truth with explosive relevance: in Scripture, marriage and property are inseparable, because God owns the earth and entrusts stewardship not to the state or the individual, but to the family. Biblical property is future-oriented, covenantal, and stabilizing—designed to capitalize God’s Kingdom through responsible households and godly heirs. The dowry system forced maturity, patience, restitution, and accountability, protecting women, children, and marriage far better than modern courts ever could. By tying marriage to capital, inheritance, and hope, God’s Law curbed irresponsibility, restrained lust, and anchored families to both past and future. When modern society severed marriage from property, it also severed responsibility from love—producing instability, despair, and rootlessness. The takeaway is sharp: God’s law understood human nature better than modern economics, and a rebuilt society begins where Scripture begins—with marriage as a stewarded covenant, not a romantic impulse.#MarriageAndProperty #BiblicalEconomics #FamilyStewardship #GodOwnsItAll #CovenantMarriage #Dowry #LawWord #ChristianReconstruction #FamilyFirst #FutureGenerations #AgainstStatism #BiblicalWorldview...more26minPlay
June 02, 2026Marriage and the Image Mandate (Remastered)Marriage, this lesson insists, is not a “natural arrangement” built on biology or romance, but a vocation rooted in the image of God—a covenant designed to reveal God’s order, authority, and love in the world. Reading Genesis 2 and Ephesians 5 together, it pushes back against “Old Testament is primitive” thinking and says Scripture is one unified Word: Adam is left alone long enough to discover his calling under God, and Eve is given as a “help as his front”—a mirror-partner in dominion, not a mere outlet for desire. Paul’s key is analogical reality: we don’t project “father” and “family” language upward onto God; God’s Fatherhood is the pattern that all human authority must echo (Eph. 3:14–15), which means headship is never absolute, never tyrannical, and always accountable to Christ’s self-giving love. The Fall, then, is portrayed as role-rebellion and responsibility-fatigue—Eve tempted to seize rule, Adam tempted to abdicate—and the result is marriage warped into power-struggle, pain, and frustration; yet redemption restores the original purpose: husbandly authority modeled on Christ’s sacrifice, and wifely submission modeled on the church’s faithful allegiance—both bound to God’s Word so that marriage becomes a living parable of Christ and His people, an “image mandate” enacted in daily life, not a fairy tale sustained by feelings.#BiblicalMarriage #ImageOfGod #Ephesians5 #Genesis2 #ChristAndTheChurch #CovenantNotContract #Dominion #HeadshipAndLove #SubmissionInTheLord #AuthorityUnderGod #AgainstModernMyths #MarriageAsVocation...more44minPlay
FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 168 episodes available.