Just found this fascinating article by David Boscovic at One Way Purpose entitled "The Dumbest Attack on Homeschooling." It raises some really, really interesting points.
I was pleased to see the article mentioned RJ Rushdoony. Has anyone ever read any of his books? What did you think?
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Thanks for the link!
Actually, I don't believe I talked about Rushdooney much in my article. There's bunch of stuff going on in the comments section now though. :D
If these people who like to slam homeschoolers actually knew many real homeschoolers, they would know what are the REAL problems in the movement - and we have them.
Too many homeschool parents think that taking their kids out of public school was 50% of the job, and they fail to pursue true excellence in education.
KK:
I have read nearly all of RJ Rushdoony's (RJR) many books in the time period of 1978-to the mid 1980s. He was the grandfather of Reconstructionism, a Calvinist philosophy bent on applying "biblical law" to all of culture with a postmillential hope of its success. This means the penal sanctions of the Mosaic law as well. His magum opus is Institutes of Biblical Law (1973): 890 pages. He failed to win over most Reformed people on this doctrine, myself included.
RJR was also often a deeply insightful social critique, something along the lines of Francis Schaeffer, but more scholarly. RJR, however, was quite polemical and partison, unlike Schaeffer. In some ways he was the mastermind behind much of the Christian Right, and his influence can be seen in Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, although they do not share his Calvinism.
RJR was also a defender of Cornelius Van Til's presuppositional form of apologetics. See his, By What Standard. For a critique of Van Til, see Gordon Lewis, "Testing Christianity's Truth Claims."
I hope this helps.
Best,
Doug Groothuis
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