While Publik Skooling continues to be dominant, Christians are increasingly turning to these two options; or at least giving them serious consideration. This is a hopeful development for the future of American society, and in this small-but-growing part of the public sphere, Rishdoony and Bahnsen were giants.
Yes.. you’re correct; Dr. Rushdoony was solidly behind the Home School Movement, he’s written some very astute observations regarding Progressive Education..he appeared constantly in court, defending Home Schoolers as an expert witness..Rushdoony was a brilliant man, yet hardly anyone in Evangelical Christianity is familiar with him these days. This is really too bad, since, intellectually, Rushdoony is on the level of perhaps a Cornelius Van Till, or a Francis Schaeffer. His main area of interest was the application of Biblical Law in todays world.
On the other hand, Dr. Greg Bahnsen wasn’t involved too much in the Home School Movement, rather, his expertise and influence was in the area of Logic, Philosophy, and Pre-Suppositional Apologetics. Dr. Bahnsen was the protoge’ of Dr. Cornelius Van Till, at Westminster Theological Seminary, who is often called “The Father of Presuppositional Apologetics”..Bahnsen continues to be influential in this area..
Yes..Both men were Christian Reconstructionists. For GOOD reasons. (see Bahnsen’s work, “BY THIS STANDARD”..you’ll see what I mean.)
By the way, a good rule of thumb is, whenever Progressives slander and smear a person or a movement..they often MISCHARACTERIZE that person or movement...this is often a good indication that they are FRIGHTENED of what this person or movement stands for.
With this in mind...what Progressives say about Christian Reconstructionism and the people associated with it, is obviously FALSE.