"Rushdoony explicitly systematised the intrinsic connection between postmillennialism and theonomy—the idea that Biblical Law should be the normative foundation for all politics and legislation. For Rushdoony ... the gospel conquering the world meant that every facet of human existence is to be brought under the Lordship of Christ ... His call to exercise dominion for Christ on a socio-political level is therefore rooted in a Christian worldview that is both historically and eschatologically driven."
- Schlebusch, J.A. The Political Eschatology of Groen van Prinsterer and its impact on Christian Conservatism in the USA. Litnet Akademies 16(3) 2019, p. 289.

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"The sure knowledge that General Lee himself is in no way affected by this atrocity by virtue of currently enjoying the riches and glories of eternal salvation, gives us great comfort. We also take comfort in the knowledge that Christ will be victorious and conquer all his enemies, including those who are responsible for this most disgraceful act.
In the meantime, the Pactum Institute strongly suggests secession or at least increased regional and local autonomy as a means of maintaining the peace between ourselves and our enemies so that we can each develop our fundamentally incompatible cultures within our own respective communities and countries."
https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-removal-of-the-statue-of-general-robert-e-lee-in-richmond-virginia

Pactum Institute director dr. Adi Schlebusch regularly publishes contributions at Knowing Scripture and The Reformed Conservative. (Links: https://knowingscripture.com/articles?author=60c4c7ae745349425d4e75c9 and https://thereformedconservative.org/author/janschle/)

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Herewith the Institute's latest press statement: https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/the-gospel-coalition-combats-the-formation-of-conservative-christian-communities

"The Pactum Institute, because of our commitment to the cultivation of small community and clan living based on the principle of subsidiarity, rejects the slanderous accusations of pastor Will Anderson against conservative Christians in the strongest of terms."

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From his work "Law and Liberty."

From Bavinck's 𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑗 ℎ𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑗𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑗𝑘𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑑𝑠𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑡 (1913), p. 115-116.

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"For Groen van Prinsterer, the idea of neutrality is a myth. He writes in 1862 that:

'People apparently desire to neutralize the state, but in practice the state is surrendered to wholly non-neutral influences. If the Christian principle is not prevalent in our political life, then the anti-Christian principle will target everything that remains dear and sacred to our Christian nation.'

This also applies to education, and he considered the idea of a neutral education to be a practical impossibility. If children aren’t thoroughly provided with a Christian education, they will be indoctrinated by means of an anti-Christian one.

The education of a child in the ways of the Lord, Groen argues, 'might seem like an insignificant act in the eyes of the world,' but in doing so one instills in that child a 'faith that conquers the world [and] to conquer the world it is necessary to demolish every argument and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ'."

https://thereformedconservative.org/groen-on-education/

Our latest press statement:

"In addition to demanding that all governments cease implementing such mandates, the Pactum Institute calls upon all God-fearing lesser magistrates—governors, sheriffs, councilmen, representatives, community and family leaders and other office holders—to use their God-given authority to resist these diabolic measures from governments in those areas, spheres and realms where they legitimately govern."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/it-is-time-for-lesser-magistrates-to-rise-up-and-oppose-the-tyranny-of-vaccine-mandates

"As ... the Reformed philosopher Gordon Clark observes, the traducian understanding of original sin is also taught by Christ in John 3:6, when Christ speaks of Nicodemus’s unregenerate soul as born of his parents. Clark notes that the Greek noun sarx (i.e. “flesh”) in relation to gennao (the Greek word for “birth”) clearly conveys this idea of a depraved soul in distinction from the corporeal body, which means that the propagation of the human species is not only corporeal, but spiritual and mental also."

https://knowingscripture.com/articles/on-the-salvation-of-children-who-die-as-infants

In the final Pactum Podcast for 2021, Jacob Tyler shares his first-hand experience as a reporter covering the Unite the Right Rally which took place in August 2017 as well as some of his thoughts on the recent court trials and verdicts following from the incidents of that day:

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts/pactum-podcast-20212

Just a year ago, publishing an article defending familialism in an academic journal was unthinkable. But a year ago, the world hadn't yet been blessed with the Pactum Institute. In our latest research publication (published in the latest edition of the Journal for Christian Scholarship), dr. Schlebusch argues that

"the individualizing implications of the social contract inevitably leads to government tyranny since a society made up of
individuals, isolated from their natural and familial blood relations, is an ideal subject for government despotism. In this way, the social
ontology of the Enlightenment inevitably led to isolation from those natural familial relationships in which humans were designed to flourish as well as a consequent loss of true liberty In other
words, by virtue of its attempt to liberate the individual from the natural bonds established by blood and birth, it takes away the divinely-ordained creational structure in which humanity was designed to prosper and thrive, thereby enslaving it to the only authoritative social structure that remains, the state."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/research-publications/the-role-of-familialism-in-counter-enlightenment-social-ontology

"The age to come in Christ has come and is now rolling back this present wicked age. The expectation is that this rolling back, while Spiritual in its most fundamental Kingdom expression, is a rolling back that is corporeal and tangible and so postmillennial at the same time. Real wicked men who are of their father the devil and who are chiefs in synagogues of Satan are brought down and God’s persecuted oppressed righteous are raised up." - Rev. Bret Mcatee (Research Fellow, Pactum Institute)

https://ironink.org/2021/12/the-postmillennialism-of-marys-magnificat/

"Because Christ’s Lordship is universal, no aspect of human existence can remain neutral with regard to his rule. It is for this reason that Jesus noted in Mark 9:40 that 'he who is not against us, is for us.' It is for this reason that Scripture teaches us in I Corinthians 10:31 that 'whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.'

Every single thing that we think or do is either in opposition to or in service of Christ’s Kingdom." - Dr. Adi Schlebusch

https://www.christrules.com/the-lordship-of-christ-an-inescapable-and-practical-reality/

The Southern Presbyterian theologian and philosopher Robert Lewis Dabney was undoubtedly one of the greatest intellectuals of all time.

"Disobedience to God’s Law amounts to disregarding Christ’s Lordship—something the saints of the Old Testament understood very clearly. After all, when the prophet Daniel refused to engage in idolatry, he expressly rooted his refusal in the divine Lordship of Jesus Christ." - Dr. Adi Schlebusch

https://www.christrules.com/the-lordship-of-christ-as-revealed-in-the-old-testament/