Contra Mundum Bookstore


Theory of Culture



Henry Van Til

The Calvinistic Concept of Culture


Hendrikus Berkhof

Christ and the Powers


T.S. Eliot

Christianity and Culture


Abraham Kuyper

Lectures on Calvinism



Reason



Ronald H. Nash

Faith and Reason



Law and Government



Ruben Alvarado

A Common Law: The Law of Nations and Western Civilization
Description

Francis Oakley

The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870


Stephen Perks

A Defence of the Christian State: The Case against Principled Pluralism, and the Christian Alternative US UK


R. J. Rushdoony

Institutes of Biblical Law


Edward Coke

The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke



History



Paul Fregosi

Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries


Ronald H. Nash

The Meaning of History
Nash takes the great thinkers approach to review major philosophies of history. The Christian view, which he argues is superior to all others so far advanced, is represented primarily by Augustine. In his revisionist account of Hegel, he holds (citing detailed studies by others) that Hegel never held the thesis-antithesis-synthesis scheme attributed to Hegel by Marx. There are a few lapses in Nash's research. He accepts the steriotypical view of the deists, namely that they held to a remote, detached deity, despite the fact that no such position can be found in their writings. This easy to read book would make a good text for high-school level home schools.

Herbert Schlossberg

The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England



Theology



C. Fitzsimons Allison

The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter

"The question of the formal cause of justification ... is central to an understanding of seventeenth-century soteriology. .. From the new school of thought, which might be called the new moralism, has issued the characteristically modern notion that deliberate sin is inveriably more pernicious than sin founded in ignorance or grounded in the unconscious. This grotesque distinction, which inevitably puts premiums on ignorance and suppression, was first formally propounded at the fifth and sixth sessions of the Council of Trent, and was taken up by the later Carolines and by post-Civil War Protestants. It has come to be the prevalent theology of the whole Christian Church in the West with consequences disastrous for the whole Christain community."

The Federal Vision theology today turns on many of the same issues. It, too, depends on a shift in the definition of the formal cause of justification, and it posits an ideal of "covenant faithfulness" that depends on the distinction in seriousness between deliberate and other sin.

Geoffrey W. Bromiley

Sacramental Teaching and Practice in the Reformation Churches

A good explanation of the Reformation (Anglican, Lutheran and Reformed) doctrines of baptism and of the Lord's supper, with an explanation of how these differ from medieval as well as from Evangelical views.

Guy Prentiss Waters

Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul: A Review and Response
Waters studies the history of liberal, or critical, Pauline theology from F.C. Baur in the 19th century to the New Perspectives theologians of today, giving special attention to N.T. Wright. He provides a critique of these views, and concludes with a chapter on "What's at Stake for Reformed Christianity?" in which he considers the relation of the NPP to the Federal Vision theology and the views of Norman Shepherd.


Economics



Stephen Perks

The Political Economy of a Christian Society US UK



Science



John Byl

God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe


Michael J. Behe

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution



General



Stephen C. Perks

Common-law Wives and Concubines: Essays on Covenantal Christianity and Contemporary Wester Culture