What is the Common Good?
What is the Common Good? [...]
How to Restore Community and Home
Community-building then is none other than home-building, and home-building is none other than—when understood broadly—love-making, though the narrow sense works as well.
Groen’s Conservative Political Theory
Forsaking the supremacy of the divine, transcendent moral order as authoritative standard for societal and political arrangements in favor of the supremacy of man conflicts with divine ordinances and leads to anarchy from which government tyranny alone offers liberation.
Groen’s Reformed Meta-History
History, no less than science and philosophy, must be done by the Christian sub specie aeternitatits -- within view of eternity, and as always, coram Deo.
Conservatism and the Reformed Doctrine of Covenant
Conservatism and Covenantal theology both have a place for the family and of the families’ education as a principle mechanism of the conservation of the good and the transmission of knowledge.
Herman Bavinck: A Short Biography
Herman Bavinck was a deep thinker, an active churchman, compassionate statesman and possibly the most influential theologian born in the Netherlands.
Is Oikophilia Biblical?
"Love of home" is central to conservative political philosophy. We at the Reformed Conservative contend that Oikophilia is a biblical concept.
Refuting Relativism
Russell Kirk said, "Our twentieth-century world has experienced the hideous consequences of the collapse of belief in a moral order." If we in society exchange belief in objective morality --a transcendent moral order-- for clever sophism is indubitably to commit moral suicide.
The Reformation Principle
If we are to defeat the Revolution, we must have the Gospel stripped of all hindrances and set free from the superstitions in which Rome has sunk and distorted it.
Gun Rights, Protestant History, and Modern Research
Protestants have generally held a pro-life position. It is impracticable and infeasible to protect life when you are unarmed and helpless.