"The Cowboy State remains one of the most viable places in the world to start rebuilding the New Christendom because of its Christian, rural and homogeneous population, and now even more so in light of its growing isolation from globalist centres of power. The Wyomingite nation desperately needs to capitalize on Cheney’s defeat by focusing their energies on building healthy local socio-political institutions and structures which can help ensure a greater autonomy for the state and the communities which constitute it.
And a first step towards building those institutions and structures is strengthening the necessary social cohesion by celebrating Cheney’s defeat with neighbors, friends and family."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/liz-cheney-s-defeat-is-truly-worth-celebrating-even-if-harriet-hageman-s-victory-isn-t
And a first step towards building those institutions and structures is strengthening the necessary social cohesion by celebrating Cheney’s defeat with neighbors, friends and family."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/liz-cheney-s-defeat-is-truly-worth-celebrating-even-if-harriet-hageman-s-victory-isn-t
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Liz Cheney’s defeat is truly worth celebrating, even if Harriet Hageman’s victory isn’t - Pactum Institute
Pactum Institute research fellow Rev Bret McAtee on the need to practice censorship in accordance with Biblical Law:
http://ironink.org/2022/08/in-favor-of-censorship-having-eyes-wide-open-on-what-liberty-means/
http://ironink.org/2022/08/in-favor-of-censorship-having-eyes-wide-open-on-what-liberty-means/
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In Favor of Censorship & Having Eyes Wide Open on What Liberty Means
Should Christians desire to win the culture wars against the WOKE cultural Marxists crowd they have to be done with classical liberalism as a worldview and embrace censorship once in power while su…
"The Pactum Institute strongly condemns this humanist perspective as at odds with Christian orthodoxy and as a view which inevitably leads to the divination of the state."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/pretoria-conference-on-church-and-state-a-major-disappointment
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/pretoria-conference-on-church-and-state-a-major-disappointment
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Pretoria Conference on Church and State a Major Disappointment - Pactum Institute
In his latest scholarly paper, dr Adi Schlebusch challenges "outdated and oversimplistic narratives of secularity based upon a false dichotomy of the religious as theistic and the secular as anti-theistic" by pointing out that "in the establishment of the public policy, there is always a normative framework at work which functionally operates in the same way with regard to its epistemic sanction, regardless of the worldview or moral standard which underpins it." He also notes that "the legal ratification of religious liberty does not in itself preclude the public establishment and government enforcement of that which, if not in theory, then at least in practice amounts to religious norms as legal framework for the public domain."
Dr Schlebusch concludes that "even modern liberal democratic states have enshrined values which functionally amount to established religious presuppositions which shape their public life, and in that sense, are essentially theocratic in nature."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/research-publications/is-theocracy-inescapable-presuppositionalism-the-public-domain-and-post-secular-theory
Dr Schlebusch concludes that "even modern liberal democratic states have enshrined values which functionally amount to established religious presuppositions which shape their public life, and in that sense, are essentially theocratic in nature."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/research-publications/is-theocracy-inescapable-presuppositionalism-the-public-domain-and-post-secular-theory
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Is Theocracy inescapable?
Presuppositionalism, the public
domain and post-secular theory - Pactum Institute
Presuppositionalism, the public
domain and post-secular theory - Pactum Institute
Journal for Christian Scholarship 58(1-2) 2022, pp. 79-95.
Our Technical Consultant, Jacob Tyler, has converted dr Schlebusch' publication on Familialism from a few months back into an attractive-looking e-book, which is now available at the link below. This e-book can be freely distributed to families, local church councils, political office holders and community leaders for educational purposes. At the end of the e-book there is also a link to our merchandise store where you will be able to find only the highest quality Pactum Merch for the Militant Church!
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/research-publications/the-role-of-familialism-in-counter-enlightenment-social-ontology
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/research-publications/the-role-of-familialism-in-counter-enlightenment-social-ontology
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The Role of Familialism in Counter-Enlightenment Social Ontology - Pactum Institute
Journal for Christian Scholarship 57(3-4) 2021, pp. 135-147.
In the first episode of our new vlog, The Free Speech Impediment, Dr Schlebusch discusses the energy crisis, and the need for energy independence. He also provides a few tips for navigating electricity blackouts.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-1
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-1
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The Free Speech Impediment, Episode I - Pactum Institute
The Pactum Institute is pleased to announce that Professor Mark R. Kreitzer, a former Associate Professor at Grand Canyon University's School of Theology and world-renowned scholar in the field of missiology has joined our team as a research fellow.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/who-we-are
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/who-we-are
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Who We Are - Pactum Institute
"It recently came to light that for three decades, between 1978 and 2008, a group of leading German psychologists in collaboration with the local government in Berlin, purposefully placed dozens of the city’s orphans in the care of convicted male pedophiles. The rationale behind this project was the theory that exposure to the children would be good for the pedophiles’ re-integration into society and also contribute to the sexual liberation of the children themselves. This horrendous theory and practice was, until very recently, advocated by some of most well-educated psychologists in the world—”experts” who have received their psychology degrees from some of the world’s leading universities both in Germany and internationally.
This is but one example showing why the key to societal flourishing is not education as such, but the interpretation of facts within the context of a Biblical worldview."
https://www.christrules.com/the-basics-of-a-christian-philosophy-of-education/
This is but one example showing why the key to societal flourishing is not education as such, but the interpretation of facts within the context of a Biblical worldview."
https://www.christrules.com/the-basics-of-a-christian-philosophy-of-education/
Christ Rules
The Basics of a Christian Philosophy of Education
By Adi Schlebusch
Our worldview shapes our perspective on everything. If your worldview isn’t founded on the central axiom that God is both the Source and the End of reality itself (Romans 11:36), your philosophies will ultimately be inconsistent, weak…
Our worldview shapes our perspective on everything. If your worldview isn’t founded on the central axiom that God is both the Source and the End of reality itself (Romans 11:36), your philosophies will ultimately be inconsistent, weak…
Pactum Institute research fellow, Rev Bret McAtee exposing the gnostic error underpinning Doug Wilson's arguments against Kinism:
"I still insist that there is a stream of the Gnostic in Doug. Doug seems to think that if the black man and the white man would alike properly worship the same God that would eliminate all the differences between race. I do not believe that is true. I believe that the races were created by God to be distinct and different and those distinctions and differences remain even when they all worship the one true God in the proper manner."
http://ironink.org/2022/09/mcatee-contra-doug-wilson-on-charges-of-skinism-and-other-theological-points/
"I still insist that there is a stream of the Gnostic in Doug. Doug seems to think that if the black man and the white man would alike properly worship the same God that would eliminate all the differences between race. I do not believe that is true. I believe that the races were created by God to be distinct and different and those distinctions and differences remain even when they all worship the one true God in the proper manner."
http://ironink.org/2022/09/mcatee-contra-doug-wilson-on-charges-of-skinism-and-other-theological-points/
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McAtee Contra Doug Wilson on Charges of “Skinism” and Other Theological Points
“One collection of folks who excel at both racial vainglory and racial animosity is a group that call themselves kinists. I call them skinists…” The thing that requires me to iden…
Dr Schlebusch concisely lays out what the societies which will make up the new Christendom will look like.
https://www.christrules.com/the-characteristics-of-a-christian-society/
https://www.christrules.com/the-characteristics-of-a-christian-society/
Christ Rules
The Characteristics of a Christian Society
by Adi Schlebusch
In his 2021 book, The Confessional County: Realizing the Kingdom through Local Christendom, the senior executive fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Raymond Simmons describes the logic of social Christian covenantal confessionalism…
In his 2021 book, The Confessional County: Realizing the Kingdom through Local Christendom, the senior executive fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Raymond Simmons describes the logic of social Christian covenantal confessionalism…
"The assault on racial distinctions is nothing more than an assault on the Creator of those distinctions—the One who sustains all distinctions by means of his decrees and providence."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/doug-wilson-the-pactum-institute-and-ethnic-complementarianism
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/doug-wilson-the-pactum-institute-and-ethnic-complementarianism
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Doug Wilson, the Pactum Institute and Ethnic Complementarianism - Pactum Institute
The latest quarterly report with all the inside information on Pactum's ongoing projects as well as our plans for the future has just been mailed out to all Pactum members. Consider supporting the Pactum Institute by becoming one yourself:
www.pactuminstitute.com/membership
www.pactuminstitute.com/membership
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Membership - Pactum Institute
In the latest episode of The Free Speech Impediment, Dr Adi Schlebusch discusses Ethnic Complementarianism and the need to cherish diversity.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-ii
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-ii
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The Free Speech Impediment, episode II - Pactum Institute
"Materialism leads to the civil bondage that Huddleston speaks of as being directed by 'force alone' and Machen doubts that, where present, the remnants of liberty can subsist."
- Bret L McAtee explains why only Christianity can support social orders that can be described as genuinely having liberty.
https://ironink.org/2022/10/christianity-civil-liberty/
- Bret L McAtee explains why only Christianity can support social orders that can be described as genuinely having liberty.
https://ironink.org/2022/10/christianity-civil-liberty/
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Christianity & Civil Liberty
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1 You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas …
"The only way to love our fellow citizens is by treating them in terms of God’s Law."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/laws-against-abortion-criminalize-certain-religions-why-we-shouldn-t-care
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/laws-against-abortion-criminalize-certain-religions-why-we-shouldn-t-care
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Laws against Abortion criminalize certain Religions: Why we shouldn’t care - Pactum Institute
In the latest episode of The Free Speech Impediment, Dr Adi Schlebusch briefly discusses subsidiarity, self-determination and how local institutions like churches can take over the role of government.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-iii
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/the-free-speech-impediment-episode-iii
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The Free Speech Impediment, Episode III - Pactum Institute
A quote video featuring an excerpt from Dr. J.A. Schlebusch's book, "Assailing the Gates of Hell."
Soldiers of Christ must arise in these evil days and take the fight to the forces of darkness. Standing firm and fearless in our faith, knowing that in Christ we are more than conquerors—and that He has given His true church the power to tear down the very strongholds of the enemies of truth and righteousness.
Video produced by Jacob Tyler.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/already-conquered-assailing-the-gates-of-hell-quote-video
Soldiers of Christ must arise in these evil days and take the fight to the forces of darkness. Standing firm and fearless in our faith, knowing that in Christ we are more than conquerors—and that He has given His true church the power to tear down the very strongholds of the enemies of truth and righteousness.
Video produced by Jacob Tyler.
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/already-conquered-assailing-the-gates-of-hell-quote-video
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Already Conquered - Assailing the Gates of Hell Quote Video - Pactum Institute
In his latest scholarly paper, dr Schlebusch discusses the significance of daily prayer rituals for the pre-Nicene church in North Africa. The paper has been published in Afrikaans, but herewith an extended abstract in English:
https://www.litnet.co.za/the-socio-religious-significance-of-daily-prayer-rituals-for-the-pre-nicene-church-in-north-africa/
https://www.litnet.co.za/the-socio-religious-significance-of-daily-prayer-rituals-for-the-pre-nicene-church-in-north-africa/
LitNet
The socio-religious significance of daily prayer rituals for the pre-Nicene Church in North Africa - LitNet
"Regarding the morning prayers it was common for the earliest Christians in North Africa to interpret the redemptive work of Christ within a paradigm of darkness being transformed into light."