Medical Model or Moral Model?

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Nov 12, 2025 · 7m

In Medical Model or Moral Model?, R.J. Rushdoony critiques the dominant humanistic approach to crime and deviant behavior, which frames wrongdoing as a sickness rather than sin. This “medical model,” he argues, absolves individuals of personal responsibility by attributing their actions to social conditions or psychological imbalances, leading to an ever-growing list of offenses managed by experts rather than moral accountability. In contrast, Scripture presents the “moral model,” where sin is a willful transgression of God’s law and requires regeneration, restitution, and repentance…