Intellectual Schizophrenia

About the Title

When this brilliant and prophetic book was first published in 1961, the Christian homeschool movement was years away and even Christian day schools were hardly considered a viable educational alternative. But this book was a resolute call to arms for Christians to get their children out of the pagan public schools and provide them with a genuine Christian education. Dr. Rushdoony had predicted that the humanist system, based on anti-Christian premises of the Enlightenment, could only get worse. Rushdoony was indeed a prophet. He knew that education divorced from God and from all transcendental standards would produce the educational disaster and moral barbarism we have today.

The title of this book is particularly significant in that Dr. Rushdoony was able to identify the basic contradiction that pervades a secular society that rejects Gods sovereignty but still needs law and order, justice, science, and meaning to life. As Dr. Rushdoony writes, "there is no law, no society, no justice, no structure, no design, no meaning apart from God." And so, modern man has become schizophrenic because of his rebellion against God.

It is no accident that the government schools now lavish so much time on death education, which has been marbleized throughout the curriculum. Dr. Rushdoony writes: "For man to turn his back on God, therefore, is to turn towards death." Add to this transcendental meditation, sensitivity training, behavioral psychology, explicit sex education, drug education, evolution, humanism and other such programs, you get a curriculum that is so profoundly anti-Christian that one wonders how any Christian parent or minister can condone putting a Christian child into a government school.

About the Author: Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-2001) was a well-known American scholar, writer and author of over 30 books. He held B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California and received his theological training at the Pacific School of Religion. An ordained minister, he worked as a missionary among the Paiute and Shoshone tribes and as a pastor to two churches. He founded the Chalcedon Foundation, an education organization devoted to research, publishing and cogent communication of a distinctly Christian scholarship to the world at large. His writing in the Chalcedon Report and his numerous books have inspired a generation of believers to be active in reconstructing the world to the glory of Jesus Christ.

Specifications: Paperback, 140 pages