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Easy Chair No. 131, September 16, 1986
In this wide-ranging episode (Sept. 16, 1986), R.J. Rushdoony opens with Tertullian’s striking line “Your Emperor is more our Emperor than he is yours” to argue that Christians alone can truly interpret civil power because they know rulers come by God’s providence, whether as judgment or blessing, and this certainty is part of why the early Church outlasted Rome. From there he surveys the spiritual emptiness that made paganism hopeless (“grant me what I deserve”) and critiques how first-century Judaism could be reduced to external markers (“perhaps you will find mercy”), contrasting both with…
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