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"Dr. Mark A. Ludwig has written two of the most important books to be published in Christendom since the Reformation. Saying this in no way is meant as disparaging to such Reformed theologians as Kuyper, Van Til, or Rushdoony. They are all giants of theology, their insights are important to Christianity, and Dr. Ludwig has profited from their insights. What makes Ludwig's books so important is the genius of his ability to crystalize his message in plain, everyday English. And that message: "Many Christians have allowed themselves to be ruined with a suicidal theology that surrenders this world - God's world - to the devil." This message, and how to reverse the situation, is the focus of Ludwig's book The Christian Revolutionary. The title will shock Reformed Christians who have wrongly been led to believe that revolutionary action is in opposition to God. Not so, says Ludwig, revolution, while it may lead to violene, is at heart a conflict between moral systems, 'one well established, the other not.'
"'The focus of revolutionary controversy is law. That's because law, by its very nature, is a fundamental expression of right and wrong.' This simple, but obvious statement exposes the lie of the moral relativist that there are no moral absolutes. Every law passed by a legislature, every decree issued by a judge or by a regulatory bureaucrat tells men what is right and wrong. What man can do - obey the law, decree, or regulation - is 'good'. Disobeying them is 'bad.' Different laws, then, teach different behaviors and thus moral behavior is estabished through law.
"Revolution then boils down to a contest about law, the morality of law. Revolution involves fundamental principles that are generally not resolvable within the system. The moral conflict becomes a revolution because it is of fundamental importance, yet the system does not or cannot resolve it. From a practical perspective, the system suffers from some fatal flaw that prevents a resolution. Generally speaking, this fatal flaw is of a philosophical or theological nature such that resolution cannot be had without undermining the whole foundation of the law of the old regime."
The old regime today, whether we call it democracy, a constitutional republic, welfare stae socialism, or describe it in spin-doctor terminology such as "The Third Way", is nothing more than man made law, law enacted and enforced by sinful depraved man. As such, it changes with the political winds and what is "good" one day becomes "bad" on another. [Maybe this is what moral relativists mean by their view that there are no moral absolutes. Instead the absolute of the day depends upon the whim of the day.] A quick glance at contemporary society shows how detrimental this process is and what it degenerates into.
The Christian revolutionary is thus one who recognizes the inherent evil of man-made law and devotes himself to its eradication and replacement by God's law. Nothing in this implies armed insurrection - the common image of revolutionary action. But the old regime of man made law must be tossed out and replaced by God's law if the Christian revolution is to succeed and the old regime may not go quietly in the night. Having said that does not invalidate the vital message of The Christian Revolutionary. The Old regime, in the form of the modern nation state and its foundation of man-made law seems an unassailable, permanent redoubt. But the Roman Empire also seemed invulnerable to early Christians, but the cause of Christ eventually triumphed. So too will God's law - the fundamental moral and law order of the Christian revolutionary - eventually triumph. . . . .
These two books are profound in their insights and are crucially important to the Christian seeking answers to countering the deadly virus of the secularists who have a loathing hatred of believers. Pastors and elders are derelict in their pastoral duties if they don't read and start paying more attention to living and preaching God's law. . . .
--The Christian Observer, August 2001