Kinism is a new name for an ancient belief:

Love and loyalty to one's blood relations as a central moral duty. Only in a depraved age where these creational basics are questioned do they need to be labelled and reiterated. As biblical support, see 1 Tim. 5:8, Romans 9:1-5, & the 5th Commandment.

Over against naked neighbor-hatred, Kinism affirms the imago Dei of all people, their right to live in their land, and their duty to love their people. Basically, true Kinism advocates Kinism for every tribe.

Emperor Constantine (272 - 337 A.D.)

Born in modern-day Serbia to Helen, a devout Christian, and Constantius, a Roman tetrarch with Christian sympathies. Constantine was a genius military strategist who cut his teeth campaigning against barbarians on the Empire's northern frontiers. He succeeded his father as tetrarch, and was subsequently challenged by another tetrarch, Maxentius. Despite being outnumbered >2:1 and against all counsel, Constantine won a series of brilliant victories culminating at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. Maxentius built a pontoon bridge allowing his army to escape if he lost. As the story goes, Constantine placed the Chi Rho symbol on his troops' shields in response to a dream, and during the battle, he saw the Chi Rho in the sky, followed by the words, "In Hoc Signo Vinces" or, "In this sign, conquer." That he did, and as Maxentius fled with his army, the bridge collapsed with Maxentius himself on it, drowning him. Constantine returned to Rome and did not sacrifice to Jupiter, but rather thanked the Christian God. Following this, he consolidated power, made a peace pact in 313 with the Eastern emperor Licinius, which included the famous Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity and returning property stolen by Diocletian. Eventually, Licinius broke this pact and Constantine, especially in response to the Christian outcry, faced Licinius and easily defeated him. He moved the capital to Constantinople, and from there called the Council of Nicaea in 325 to settle the Arian controversy. There, he bowed to the elders who still bore injuries and scars from Diocletian’s persecution. He was baptized shortly before death by his friend, the Christian historian Eusebius.

Medieval Angelic Classifications:

Seraphim (Is. 6:1-7, cf. Num. 21:4-9)
Cherubim (Ezek. 10, cf. Gen. 3:24, Ex. 25:20)
Thrones (aka Ophanim, Ezek. 1:15-21, cf. Ezek. 10 & Col. 1:16)

Dominions (aka Kuriotes, Eph. 1:21, Col. 1:16, cf. Jude 1:8)
Virtues (aka Dumanis, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 2 Thess. 1:7, 1 Pet. 3:22, cf. 2 Thess. 2:9)
Powers (aka Exousia, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 3:10, 6:12, Col. 1:16, 2:10, 2:15, 1 Pet. 3:22).

Principalities (aka Arche, Rom. 8:38, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 3:10, 6:12, Col. 1:16, 2:10, 2:15)
Archangels (1 Thess. 4:16: Jude 1:9)
Angels (Matt. 18:10, cf. Heb. 1)

The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth.

-- R. L. Dabney

There is no true knowledge apart from Christ, the arche.

Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal.

-- R. L. Dabney

The Decalogue in Wycliffe's Bible:

And the Lord spak alle these wordis, Y am thi Lord God, that ladde thee out of the lond of Egipt, fro the hous of seruage.

Thou schalt not haue alien goddis bifore me.

Thou schalt not make to thee a grauun ymage, nethir ony licnesse of thing which is in heuene aboue, and which is in erthe bynethe, nether of tho thingis, that ben in watris vndur erthe; thou schalt not herie tho, nether thou schalt worschipe; for Y am thi worschipe; for Y am thi Lord God, a strorng gelouse louyere; and Y visite the wickidnesse of fadris in to the thridde and the fourthe generacioun of hem that haten me, and Y do mercy in to a thousynde, to hem that louen me, and kepen myn heestis.

Thou schalt not take in veyn the name of thi Lord God, for the Lord schal not haue hym giltles, that takith in veyn the name of his Lord God.

Haue thou mynde, that thou halowe the dai of the sabat; in sixe daies thou schalt worche and schalt do alle thi werkis; forsothe in the seuenthe day is the sabat of thi Lord God; thou schalt not do ony werk, thou, and thi sone, and thi douytir, and thi seruaunt, and thin handmaide, thi werk beeste, and the comelyng which is withynne thi yatis; for in sixe dayes God made heuene and erthe, the see, and alle thingis that ben in tho, and restide in the seuenthe dai; herfor the Lord blesside the dai of the sabat, and halwide it.

Onoure thi fadir and thi moder, that thou be long lyuyng on the lond which thi Lord God schal yyue to thee.

Thou schalt not sle.

Thou schalt do no letcherie.

Thou schalt do no theft.

Thou schalt not speke fals witnessyng ayens thi neiybore.

Thou schalt not coueyten the hous of thi neiybore, nether thou schalt desyre his wijf, not seruaunt, not handmaide, not oxe, not asse, nether alle thingis that ben hise.

Inasmuch as the Roman Catholic Church teaches truth enough to save the souls of men (of which I have no doubt); inasmuch as it proclaims the Divine authority of the Scriptures, the obligation of the Decalogue, and the retributions of eternity; and inasmuch as it calls upon men to worship God the Father, Son and Spirit, it is unspeakably better than no church at all. And therefore, when the choice is between that and none, it is right and wise to encourage the establishment of churches under the control of Catholic priests.

-- Charles Hodge

It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.

-- R. L. Dabney, written in 1897

Inequality Is an Inescapable Concept:

The fact of law introduces a fundamental and basic inequality in society. The abolition of law will not eliminate inequality, because then the very fact of sheer survival will create an elite and establish a fundamental inequality.

-- R. J. Rushdoony, Institutes vol. 1, I.V

But nearly all public men and divines declare that the State schools are the glory of America, that they are a finality, and in no event to be surrendered. And we have seen that their complete secularization is logically inevitable. Christians must prepare themselves then, for the following results: All prayers, catechisms, and Bibles will ultimately be driven out of the schools.

-- R. L. Dabney, written in 1879.

I'm a decretal Calvinist. I'm a five-point Calvinist. I believe it all. I'm a black-coffee Calvinist. I'm a crawl-over-broken-glass Calvinist. I wake up in the morning and I say, "Ah, Calvinism! Another day of Calvinism! Oh boy, oh boy!"

- Doug Wilson to James White

John Calvin couldn't get ordained in the average Presbyterian denomination today.

They would reject his high view of the sacraments and his pronouncement of absolution as "too Catholic."

They would reject his view of church and state as a "denial of the two kingdoms."

They would reject him as "unwinsome" for calling his opponents barking dogs and filthy swine.

And finally, they would reject him as an "antisemite" and "misogynist" for his comments on Jews and women.

The doctrine of covenant succession, a centerpiece of the Reformed Presbyterian tradition, was chipped away at by late Puritan experimentalism, the Great Awakening, and almost entirely supplanted by the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening.

This tighly-argued essay by PCA minister Robert Rayburn explores the history of the doctrine as well as its basis in Reformation theology and Scripture. I'll be sharing a few snippets from it over the coming days to whet your appetite.