Experience

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Apr 8, 2026 · 7m

In “Experience” (Chalcedon Report No. 107), Rushdoony critiques the modern elevation of personal experience and mass appeal over objective, God-ordained truth. He argues that since the late seventeenth century Western culture—and the church with it—has increasingly treated experience as the test of truth, displacing doctrine, law, and God’s purposes with individual feeling and subjective validation. This shift has produced experiential religion, antinomianism, and a fixation on numbers: conversions are counted rather than lives transformed, popularity is confused with faithfulness, and…