Ben House's Review of Rushdoony's "Cure of Souls"
R. J. Rushdoony once sought to establish a Christian university. In this vision, he both failed and succeeded. While there exists no actual campus, Rushdoony did something greater. In books, essays, sermons, and lectures, he reasserted the unity of truth. For such a unity to exist, all truth must have a common basis. For Rushdoony, building upon the foundations of Augustine, Calvin, and Kuyper, that foundation was Scripture. Visualized graphically, Rushdoony’s university resembles a wagon wheel where the hub of the wheel is God’s revelation to us the Bible and every academic department is a spoke connected to that central revelation. Read more.
