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The Basis for Covenant Community (Church and Community in History) (Remastered)
Rushdoony says “community” originally meant communion a shared life grounded in Christ, not merely people living near each other. In Christendom, the Lord’s Table was the basis of real community: believers were “members one of another,” obligated to mutual care and justice. That’s why Rome (and modern states) clash with the church: the church becomes an “imperium in imperio” a government within a government meeting without state permission and providing what the state wants to control.
He argues the early church governed itself and served society: caring for widows, orphans, the sick, and the…
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