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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about biblical law within Christian reconstructionism. For the Christian theo-political movement, see <a href="Christian_reconstructionism" title="Christian reconstructionism">Christian reconstructionism</a>. For the meta-ethical theory, see <a href="Divine_command_theory" title="Divine command theory">divine command theory</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks sidebar-pol"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of the Politics series</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle">Basic forms of <a href="Government" title="Government">government</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above">

<a href="List_of_forms_of_government" title="List of forms of government">List of forms</a> · <a href="List_of_countries_by_system_of_government" title="List of countries by system of government">List of countries</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist" style="text-align:center;">

<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Source of power</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading">

<a href="Democracy" title="Democracy">Democracy</a> <span class="nobold">(<a href="Polyarchy" title="Polyarchy">rule by many</a>)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Demarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Demarchy">Demarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Direct_democracy" title="Direct democracy">Direct</a></li>

<li><a href="Economic_democracy" title="Economic democracy">Economic</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">Liberal</a></li>

<li><a href="Representative_democracy" title="Representative democracy">Representative</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">Social</a></li>

<li><a href="Socialist_democracy" title="Socialist democracy">Socialist</a></li>

<li><a href="Types_of_democracy" title="Types of democracy">Others</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">Oligarchy</a> <span class="nobold">(rule by few)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Anocracy" title="Anocracy">Anocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">Aristocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Broligarchy" title="Broligarchy">Broligarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Gerontocracy" title="Gerontocracy">Gerontocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Kleptocracy" title="Kleptocracy">Kleptocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Kritarchy" title="Kritarchy">Kritarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Meritocracy" title="Meritocracy">Meritocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Noocracy" title="Noocracy">Noocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Particracy" title="Particracy">Particracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Plutocracy" title="Plutocracy">Plutocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Stratocracy" title="Stratocracy">Stratocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Technocracy" title="Technocracy">Technocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Autocracy" title="Autocracy">Autocracy</a> <span class="nobold">(<a href="Monocracy" title="Monocracy">rule by one</a>)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Despotism" title="Despotism">Despotism</a></li>

<li><a href="Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a>

<ul><li><a href="Military_dictatorship" title="Military dictatorship">Military dictatorship</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Tyranny" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyranny">Tyranny</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Anarchy" title="Anarchy">Anarchy</a> <span class="nobold">(rule by none)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

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<li><a href="Free_association_(Marxism_and_anarchism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Free association (Marxism and anarchism)">Free association</a></li>

<li><a href="Stateless_society" title="Stateless society">Stateless</a></li></ul>

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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Power ideology</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading">

<div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Monarchism" title="Monarchism">Monarchy</a></li><li><a href="Republicanism" title="Republicanism">Republic</a></li></ul></div> <span class="nobold">(socio-political ideologies)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">Absolute</a></li>

<li><a href="Communist_state" title="Communist state">Communist</a></li>

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<li><a href="Directorial_system" title="Directorial system">Directorial</a></li>

<li><a href="Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)" title="Legalism (Chinese philosophy)">Legalist</a></li>

<li><a href="Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">Parliamentary</a></li>

<li><a href="Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">Presidential</a></li>

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<div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarian</a></li><li><a href="Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">Libertarian</a></li></ul></div> <span class="nobold">(socio-economic ideologies)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Colonialism" title="Colonialism">Colonialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a></li>

<li><a href="Despotism" title="Despotism">Despotism</a></li>

<li><a href="Distributism" title="Distributism">Distributism</a></li>

<li><a href="Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a></li>

<li><a href="Feudalism" title="Feudalism">Feudalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li>

<li><a href="Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Tribalism" title="Tribalism">Tribalism</a></li></ul>

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<div class="hlist"><ul><li>Religious</li><li>Secular</li></ul></div></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="State_religion" title="State religion">State religion</a></li>

<li><a href="Secular_state" title="Secular state">Secular state</a>

<ul><li><a href="Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li>

<li><a href="State_atheism" title="State atheism">State atheism</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Global_governance" title="Global governance">Global</a></li><li><a href="Local_government" title="Local government">Local</a></li></ul></div> <span class="nobold">(geo-cultural ideologies)</span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="City-state" title="City-state">City-state</a></li>

<li><a href="Intergovernmental_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Intergovernmental organisation">Intergovernmental organisation</a></li>

<li><a href="Nation-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation-state">National government</a></li>

<li><a href="World_government" title="World government">World government</a></li>

<li><a href="Nationalism" title="Nationalism">Nationalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Internationalism_(politics)" title="Internationalism (politics)">Internationalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Globalism" title="Globalism">Globalism</a></li></ul></td>

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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Power structure</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading">

<a href="Political_unitarism" title="Political unitarism">Unitarism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">Unitary state</a></li>

<li><a href="Empire" title="Empire">Empire</a></li>

<li><a href="Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Client_state" title="Client state">Client state</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Associated_state" title="Associated state">Associated state</a></li>

<li><a href="Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent territory</a></li>

<li><a href="Dominion" title="Dominion">Dominion</a></li>

<li><a href="Protectorate" title="Protectorate">Protectorate</a></li>

<li><a href="Puppet_state" title="Puppet state">Puppet state</a></li>

<li><a href="Puppet_monarch" class="mw-redirect" title="Puppet monarch">Puppet monarch</a></li>

<li><a href="Satellite_state" title="Satellite state">Satellite state</a></li>

<li><a href="Self-governing_colony" title="Self-governing colony">Self-governing colony</a></li>

<li><a href="Tributary_state" title="Tributary state">Tributary state</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Buffer_state" title="Buffer state">Buffer state</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Vassal_state" title="Vassal state">Vassal state</a></li>

<li><a href="Viceroyalty" title="Viceroyalty">Viceroyalty</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Federalism" title="Federalism">Federalism</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Confederation" title="Confederation">Confederation</a></li>

<li><a href="Devolution" title="Devolution">Devolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Federation" title="Federation">Federation</a></li>

<li><a href="Superstate" title="Superstate">Superstate</a></li>

<li><a href="Supranational_union" title="Supranational union">Supranational union</a></li></ul>

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<a href="Power_(international_relations)" title="Power (international relations)">International relations</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Small_power" title="Small power">Small power</a></li>

<li><a href="Middle_power" title="Middle power">Middle power</a></li>

<li><a href="Regional_power" title="Regional power">Regional power</a></li>

<li><a href="Emerging_power" title="Emerging power">Emerging power</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_power" title="Great power">Great power</a></li>

<li><a href="Superpower" title="Superpower">Superpower</a></li></ul></td>

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<ul><li><a href="Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">Administrative division</a></li>

<li><a href="Democracy_indices" title="Democracy indices">Democracy indices</a></li>

<li><a href="Democratic_transition" title="Democratic transition">Democratic transition</a>

<ul><li><a href="Democratic_backsliding" title="Democratic backsliding">Autocratization</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Democratisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratisation">Democratisation</a></li>

<li><a href="Hybrid_regimes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hybrid regimes">Hybrid regimes</a></li></ul></td>

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<p><b>Theonomy</b> (from <a href="Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <i>theos</i> "God" and <i>nomos</i> "law") is a hypothetical <a href="Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> form of government in which <a href="Divine_law" title="Divine law">divine law</a> governs societies.<sup id="cite_ref-Jones2013_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2013-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Theonomists hold that societies should observe divine law, particularly the <a href="Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>’s judicial laws.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The movement’s chief architects were <a href="Gary_North_(economist)" title="Gary North (economist)">Gary North</a>, <a href="Greg_Bahnsen" title="Greg Bahnsen">Greg Bahnsen</a>, and <a href="R._J._Rushdoony" title="R. J. Rushdoony">R.J. Rushdoony</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Neuhaus1990_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neuhaus1990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Theonomy presumes biblical Israel’s <a href="Mosaic_covenant" title="Mosaic covenant">Old Covenant</a> judicial laws have not been <a href="Law_and_Gospel#Reformed_view" title="Law and Gospel">abrogated</a>, and therefore all civil governments must enforce them (including the specific penalties). Theonomy holds that all civil governments must refrain from coercion if Scripture has not prescribed their intervention (the "regulative principle of the state").<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Theonomy is distinct from the "theonomous ethics" proposed by <a href="Paul_Tillich" title="Paul Tillich">Paul Tillich</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Neuhaus1990_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neuhaus1990-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div>

<p><a href="Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> held, "if a sovereign were to order these judicial precepts to be observed in his kingdom, he would not sin."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some have mistakenly referred to that as "General Equity Theonomy"<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it is in fact distinct from theonomy insofar as Aquinas believed the specifics of the Old Testament judicial laws were no longer binding. He instead taught that the judicial precepts contained varying degrees of universal principles of justice that reflected <a href="Natural_law" title="Natural law">natural law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In <a href="Christian_reconstructionism" title="Christian reconstructionism">Christian reconstructionism</a>, theonomy is the idea that God provides the basis of both personal and social <a href="Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> in the <a href="Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>. Theonomic ethics asserts that the Bible has been given as the abiding standard for all human authority (individual, family, church, and civil) and that <a href="Biblical_law" title="Biblical law">biblical law</a> must be incorporated into a Christian theory of biblical ethics.

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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Theonomic ethics, to put it simply, represents a commitment to the necessity, sufficiency, and unity of Scripture. For an adequate and genuinely Christian ethic, we must have God's word, only God's word, and all of God's word. Nearly every critic of theonomic ethics will be found denying, in some way, one or more of these premises.</p></blockquote><div class="templatequotecite"><p style="display: inline; padding-left: 2.3em;">— The Theonomic Antithesis to Other Law-Attitudes<sup id="cite_ref-Theonomic_Antithesis_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Theonomic_Antithesis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></div>

<p>Critics see theonomy as a significant form of <a href="Dominion_theology" title="Dominion theology">dominion theology</a>, which they define as a <a href="Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a>. Theonomy posits that the biblical law is applicable to civil law, and theonomists propose biblical law as the standard by which laws may be measured and to which they ought to be conformed.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Goals">Goals</h2></div>

<p>Various theonomic authors have stated such goals as "the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics,"<sup id="cite_ref-chilton_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chilton-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 223–335">: 223–335 </span></sup> exclusion of non-Christians from voting and citizenship,<sup id="cite_ref-north_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-north-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 87">: 87 </span></sup> and the application of Biblical law by the state.<sup id="cite_ref-bahnsen_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bahnsen-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 346–47">: 346–47 </span></sup> Under such a system of biblical law, homosexual acts,<sup id="cite_ref-demar_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demar-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 212">: 212 </span></sup> adultery, witchcraft, and blasphemy<sup id="cite_ref-north2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-north2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 118">: 118 </span></sup> would be punishable by death. Propagation of idolatry or "false religions" would be illegal<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and could also be punished by the death penalty.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>More recent theonomic writers such as Joel McDurmon, former President of <a href="American_Vision" title="American Vision">American Vision</a>, have moved away from this position, stating that these death penalties are no longer binding in the new covenant.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Former pastor and theonomy critic, JD Hall, who debated McDurmon in 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has argued that abandoning Mosaic penologies such as the death penalty means that McDurmon and others who hold similar positions cannot be said to hold to theonomy in any meaningful way.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>According to the theonomist <a href="Greg_Bahnsen" title="Greg Bahnsen">Greg Bahnsen</a>, the laws of God are the standard which Christian voters and officials ought to pursue. The civil law given to the nation of Israel, it is stated, is continuously binding, although apart from what he considers to be surrounding cultural connotations specific to this nation itself.<sup id="cite_ref-bahnsen_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bahnsen-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relation_to_Reformed_theology">Relation to Reformed theology</h2></div>

<p>Some in modern <a href="Reformed_churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed churches">Reformed churches</a> criticize any relationship between the historical Reformed faith and theonomy,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but other <a href="Calvinists" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinists">Calvinists</a> affirm that theonomy is consistent with the historic Reformed confessions.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Related topics in Christianity:

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<ul><li><a href="Canon_law_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Canon law of the Catholic Church">Canon law of the Catholic Church</a></li>

<li><a href="Divine_command_theory" title="Divine command theory">Divine command theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_reconstructionism" title="Christian reconstructionism">Christian reconstructionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Biblical_law_in_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical law in Christianity">Biblical law in Christianity</a></li>

<li><a href="Neo-Calvinism" title="Neo-Calvinism">Neo-Calvinism</a></li>

<li><a href="Law_and_Gospel" title="Law and Gospel">Law and Gospel</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Theodemocracy" title="Theodemocracy">Theodemocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_views_on_the_Old_Covenant" title="Christian views on the Old Covenant">Christian views on the Old Covenant</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Handmaid's_Tale" title="The Handmaid's Tale">The Handmaid's Tale</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Postmillennialism" title="Postmillennialism">Postmillennialism</a></li></ul>

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<p>Related topics in philosophy and other religions:

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<ul><li><a href="Blasphemy_law" title="Blasphemy law">Blasphemy law</a></li>

<li><a href="Macroethics_and_microethics" title="Macroethics and microethics">Macroethics and microethics</a></li>

<li><a href="Halachic_state" title="Halachic state">Halachic state</a></li>

<li><a href="Halakha" title="Halakha">Halakha</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_censorship" title="Religious censorship">Religious censorship</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_law" title="Religious law">Religious law</a></li>

<li><a href="Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia</a></li>

<li><a href="Supremacism" title="Supremacism">Supremacism</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-demar-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-demar_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDeMar1987" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Gary_DeMar" title="Gary DeMar">DeMar, Gary</a> (1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EDC9AAAACAAJ"><i>Ruler of the Nations</i></a>. Dominion Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-93046219-2</bdi><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 26,</span> 2021</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-north2-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-north2_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFNorth1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Gary_North_(economist)" title="Gary North (economist)">North, Gary</a> (1988). <i>Unconditional Surrender: God's Program for Victory</i>. Institute for Christian Economics. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-930464-12-5</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200514210715/http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe179.htm">"An Interview with Greg L. Bahnsen"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe179.htm">the original</a> on 2020-05-14<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-12-12</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rushdoony, R.J., 1973, <i><a href="The_Institutes_of_Biblical_Law" title="The Institutes of Biblical Law">The Institutes of Biblical Law</a></i>, Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, pp. 38–39.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Schwertley, Brian M., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reformedonline.com/uploads/1/5/0/3/15030584/webpolitical_polytheism.pdf">"Political Polytheism"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130515165305/http://www.reformedonline.com/uploads/1/5/0/3/15030584/webpolitical_polytheism.pdf">Archived</a> 2013-05-15 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McDurmon, Joel. <i>The Bounds of Love: An Introduction to God's Law of Liberty</i>. American Vision Press, 2016.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFThe_American_Vision2015" class="citation audio-visual cs1">The American Vision (2015-02-27). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCJEGM0WMw"><i>The Theonomy Debate | Joel McDurmon vs. Jordan Hall</i></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2025-06-07</span></span> – via YouTube.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hall, J.D. <i>On Joel McDurmon’s Abandonment of Theonomy</i>. (2016, October 22). Pulpit & Pen News. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pulpitandpen.org/2016/10/21/on-joel-mcdurmons-abandonment-of-theonomy/">https://pulpitandpen.org/2016/10/21/on-joel-mcdurmons-abandonment-of-theonomy/</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See, for instance, <i>Theonomy: A Reformed Critique</i> published by the faculty of <a href="Westminster_Theological_Seminary" title="Westminster Theological Seminary">Westminster Theological Seminary</a> and <a href="Westminster_Seminary_California" title="Westminster Seminary California">Westminster Seminary California</a>. Also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.providencepca.com/essays/theonomy.html">"The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Theonomic Document?"</a> by <a href="Ligon_Duncan" title="Ligon Duncan">Ligon Duncan</a>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe551.htm"><i>Theonomic Ethics and the Westminster Confession</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200627225735/http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe551.htm">Archived</a> 2020-06-27 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> by <a href="Kenneth_Gentry" title="Kenneth Gentry">Kenneth Gentry</a>, <i>The New Puritanism: A Preliminary Assessment of Christian Reconstruction</i> by Robert Bowman, Jr., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chalcedon.org/resources/counsel-of-chalcedon-magazine/1997-issue-7/theonomy-and-the-westminster-confession-a-review-and-report"><i> Theonomy and the Westminster Confession</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190903143204/http://chalcedon.org/resources/counsel-of-chalcedon-magazine/1997-issue-7/theonomy-and-the-westminster-confession-a-review-and-report">Archived</a> 2019-09-03 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> by Martin Foulner, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080227084643/http://www.covenant-rpcus.org/images/calvintheonomy.pdf"><i>The Theonomic Precedent in the Theology of John Calvin</i></a> by Christopher Strevel, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reformed.org/ethics/Jordan_judicial_laws_Moses.html"><i>Calvinism and the Judicial Law of Moses</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060526002401/http://www.reformed.org/ethics/Jordan_judicial_laws_Moses.html">Archived</a> 2006-05-26 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> by James Jordan, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe144.htm"><i>The Theonomic Thesis in Confessional and Historical Perspective</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200514210635/http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pe144.htm">Archived</a> 2020-05-14 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> by Greg Bahnsen. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chalcedon.org/docs/counselpdf/2005_4%20Biblical%20Ethics%20and%20the%20Westminster%20Standards.pdf"><i>Biblical Ethics and the Westminster Standards</i></a> by Dr. W. Gary Crampton</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>

<dl><dt>Primary sources by theonomists</dt></dl>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBahnsen2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Greg_Bahnsen" title="Greg Bahnsen">Bahnsen, Greg</a> (2002) [1977]. <i>Theonomy in Christian Ethics</i> (3rd ed.). Nacogdoches, TX: Covenant Media Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-87552-111-4</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFClauson2006" class="citation book cs1">Clauson, Marc A. (2006). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofthe_clau_2006_000_8495003"><i>A History of the Idea of "God's Law" (Theonomy): Its Origins, Development and Place in Political and Legal Thought</i></a></span>. <a href="Lewiston%2C_New_York" title="Lewiston, New York">Lewiston, New York</a>: <a href="Edwin_Mellen_Press" title="Edwin Mellen Press">Edwin Mellen Press</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780773455986</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFGentry2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Kenneth_Gentry" title="Kenneth Gentry">Gentry, Kenneth</a> (2006). <i>Covenantal Theonomy: A Response to T. David Gordon and Klinean Covenantalism</i>. Nacogdoches, TX: Covenant Media Foundation.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFJordan1984" class="citation book cs1"><a href="James_B._Jordan" title="James B. Jordan">Jordan, James B</a> (1984). <i>The Law of the Covenant: An Exposition of Exodus 21–23</i>. Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFNorth1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Gary_North_(economist)" title="Gary North (economist)">North, Gary</a>, ed. (1991). <i>Theonomy: An Informed Response</i>. Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics.</cite></li></ul>

<dl><dt>Secondary sources and criticisms</dt></dl>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBarkerGodfrey1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="William_S._Barker" title="William S. Barker">Barker, William</a>; <a href="William_Godfrey" title="William Godfrey">Godfrey, W. Robert</a>, eds. (1990). <i>Theonomy: A Reformed Critique</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-310-52171-8</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBarron1992" class="citation book cs1">Barron, Bruce (1992). <i>Heaven on Earth? The Social & Political Agenda of Dominion Theology</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-31053611-6</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFEstelle2007" class="citation journal cs1">Estelle, Bryan (May 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=45">"Review: <i>Covenantal Theonomy</i>"</a>. <i><a href="Ordained_Servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordained Servant">Ordained Servant</a></i>. <b>16</b> (5). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100620100826/http://opc.org/os.html?article_id=45">Archived</a> from the original on 20 June 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2013</span>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFGordon1994" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="Thomas_David_Gordon" title="Thomas David Gordon">Gordon, T. David</a> (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tdgordon.net/theology/theonomy.pdf">"Critique of Theonomy; a Taxonomy"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Westminster Theological Journal</i>. <b>56</b> (Spring 1994): <span class="nowrap">23–</span>43. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110822201045/http://www.tdgordon.net/theology/theonomy.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 22 August 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2013</span>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFWright1992" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="Christopher_J._H._Wright" title="Christopher J. H. Wright">Wright, Christopher J. H.</a> (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_1992_43_1_05_Wright_AuthorityOT.pdf">"The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament: A Survey of Approaches: Part I"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Tyndale Bulletin</i>. <b>43</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">101–</span>20. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120126024859/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/TynBull_1992_43_1_05_Wright_AuthorityOT.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 26 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2013</span>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFWright1992" class="citation journal cs1">——— (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_1992_43_2_01_Wright_EthicalAuthorityOT.pdf">"The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament: A Survey of Approaches: Part II"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Tyndale Bulletin</i>. <b>43</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">203–</span>31. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120125231839/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/TynBul/Library/TynBull_1992_43_2_01_Wright_EthicalAuthorityOT.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 25 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2013</span>.</cite></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chalcedon.edu/resources/videos/what-is-theonomy">What is Theonomy?</a> by <a href="Chalcedon_Foundation" title="Chalcedon Foundation">Chalcedon Foundation</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theonomyresources.blogspot.com/2015/03/proof-that-modern-theonomy-advocates.html">Proof that Modern Theonomy Advocates the Historic Understanding of the Judicial Law</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.meredithkline.com/klines-works/articles-and-essays/comments-on-an-old-new-error/">Comments on an Old-New Error</a> by <a href="Meredith_Kline" title="Meredith Kline">Meredith Kline</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.frame-poythress.org/ebooks/the-shadow-of-christ-in-the-law-of-moses/">The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses</a> by <a href="Vern_Poythress" title="Vern Poythress">Vern Poythress</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Pacifism#Religious_attitudes" title="Pacifism">Religious pacifism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Religion_and_peacebuilding" title="Religion and peacebuilding">Religion and peacebuilding</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Religious_police" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious police">Religious police</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_rejection_of_politics" title="Religious rejection of politics">Religious rejection of politics</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_segregation" title="Religious segregation">Religious segregation</a></li>

<li><a href="Separatism#Religious" title="Separatism">Religious separatism</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_socialism" title="Religious socialism">Religious socialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_views_on_same-sex_marriage" title="Religious views on same-sex marriage">Religious views on same-sex marriage</a></li>

<li><a href="Secular_humanism" title="Secular humanism">Secular humanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Secular_liberalism" title="Secular liberalism">Secular liberalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Secular_state" title="Secular state">Secular state</a></li>

<li><a href="Secularism" title="Secularism">Secularism</a></li>

<li><a href="Secularity" title="Secularity">Secularity</a></li>

<li><a href="Secularization" title="Secularization">Secularization</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Secular_religion" title="Secular religion">Secular religion</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Spiritual_left" title="Spiritual left">Spiritual left</a></li>

<li><a href="State_atheism" title="State atheism">State atheism</a></li>

<li><a href="State_religion" title="State religion">State religion</a></li>

<li><a href="Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a></li>

</ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Christianity_and_politics208" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Christianity_and_politics" title="Christianity and politics">Christianity and politics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Blaine_Amendment" title="Blaine Amendment">Blaine Amendment</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Anti-communism#Catholics" title="Anti-communism">Christian anti-communism</a></li>

<li><a href="Opposition_to_Freemasonry_within_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition to Freemasonry within Christianity">Christian anti-Masonry</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Papal_ban_of_Freemasonry" title="Papal ban of Freemasonry">Papal ban</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Anti-Zionism#Christian" title="Anti-Zionism">Christian anti-Zionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_communism" title="Christian communism">Christian communism</a></li>

<li><a href="Corporatism#Christianity" title="Corporatism">Christian corporatism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_democracy" title="Christian democracy">Christian democracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_egalitarianism" title="Christian egalitarianism">Christian egalitarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_views_on_environmentalism" title="Christian views on environmentalism">Christian environmentalism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Evangelical_environmentalism" title="Evangelical environmentalism">Evangelical environmentalism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Christian_fascism" title="Christian fascism">Christian fascism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="German_Christians_(movement)" class="mw-redirect" title="German Christians (movement)">German Christians (movement)</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="National_Catholicism" title="National Catholicism">National Catholicism</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Positive_Christianity" title="Positive Christianity">Positive Christianity</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Protestant_Reich_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reich Church">Protestant Reich Church</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Christian_feminism" title="Christian feminism">Christian feminism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Mormon_feminism" title="Mormon feminism">Mormon feminism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Christian_humanism" title="Christian humanism">Christian humanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian law">Christian law</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_left" title="Christian left">Christian left</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Evangelical_left" title="Evangelical left">Evangelical left</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Christian_libertarianism" title="Christian libertarianism">Christian libertarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_nationalism" title="Christian nationalism">Christian nationalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_pacifism" title="Christian pacifism">Christian pacifism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Peacemaking#Christianity" title="Peacemaking">Christian peacemaking</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Christian_reconstructionism" title="Christian reconstructionism">Christian reconstructionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_republic" title="Christian republic">Christian republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_right" title="Christian right">Christian right</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_socialism" title="Christian socialism">Christian socialism</a>

<li><a href="Christian_state" title="Christian state">Christian state</a></li>

<li><a href="Christian_Zionism" title="Christian Zionism">Christian Zionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Cisalpinism" title="Cisalpinism">Cisalpinism</a></li>

<li><a href="Dominion_Theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Dominion Theology">Dominion Theology</a></li>

<li><a href="Febronianism" title="Febronianism">Febronianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Gallicanism" title="Gallicanism">Gallicanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberation_theology" title="Liberation theology">Liberation theology</a></li>

<li><a href="Maronite_politics" title="Maronite politics">Maronite politics</a>

<ul><li><a href="Phoenicianism" title="Phoenicianism">Phoenicianism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Papal_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal state">Papal state</a></li>

<li><a href="Pillarisation" title="Pillarisation">Pillarisation</a></li>

<li><a href="Catholic_Church_and_politics" title="Catholic Church and politics">Political Catholicism</a></li>

<li><a href="Relations_between_the_Catholic_Church_and_the_state" title="Relations between the Catholic Church and the state">Relations between the Catholic Church and the state</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Church%E2%80%93state_relations_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Church–state relations in Argentina">In Argentina</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Sphere_sovereignty" title="Sphere sovereignty">Sphere sovereignty</a></li>

<li><a href="Subsidiarity_(Catholicism)" title="Subsidiarity (Catholicism)">Subsidiarity</a></li>

<li><a href="Temporal_power_(papal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Temporal power (papal)">Temporal power</a></li>

<li><a href="Theodemocracy" title="Theodemocracy">Theodemocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Ultramontanism" title="Ultramontanism">Ultramontanism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Neo-ultramontanism" title="Neo-ultramontanism">Neo-ultramontanism</a></small></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Islam_and_politics208" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Political_aspects_of_Islam" title="Political aspects of Islam">Islam and politics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Hui_pan-nationalism" title="Hui pan-nationalism">Hui pan-nationalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam" title="Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam">Human Rights in Islam</a></li>

<li><a href="Imamate" title="Imamate">Imamate</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_anarchism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic anarchism">Islamic anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Suppression_of_Freemasonry" class="mw-redirect" title="Suppression of Freemasonry">Islamic anti-Masonry</a></li>

<li><a href="Anti-Zionism#Muslim" title="Anti-Zionism">Islamic anti-Zionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_democracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic democracy">Islamic democracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_fascism" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic fascism">Islamic fascism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_feminism" title="Islamic feminism">Islamic feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia law</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Application_of_Islamic_law_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Application of Islamic law by country">by country</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Pakistani_nationalism" title="Pakistani nationalism">In Pakistan</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Muslim_nationalism_in_South_Asia" title="Muslim nationalism in South Asia">In South Asia</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Pacifism_in_Islam" title="Pacifism in Islam">Islamic pacifism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_republic" title="Islamic republic">Islamic republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_socialism" title="Islamic socialism">Islamic socialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamic_state" title="Islamic state">Islamic state</a></li>

<li><a href="Muslim_supporters_of_Israel" title="Muslim supporters of Israel">Islamic Zionism</a></li>

<li><a href="Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Criticism_of_Islamism" title="Criticism of Islamism">Criticism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Islamization" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamization">Islamization</a></li>

<li><a href="Khilafat" class="mw-redirect" title="Khilafat">Khilafat</a></li>

<li><a href="Petro-Islam" title="Petro-Islam">Petro-Islam</a></li>

<li><a href="Political_quietism" class="mw-redirect" title="Political quietism">Political quietism</a></li>

<li><a href="Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Talibanization" title="Talibanization">Talibanization</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Two-nation_theory" title="Two-nation theory">Two-nation theory</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Judaism_and_politics208" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Judaism_and_politics" title="Judaism and politics">Judaism and politics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Halachic_state" title="Halachic state">Halachic state</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_anarchism" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish anarchism">Jewish anarchism</a></li>

<li><a href="Anti-Zionism#Jewish_anti-Zionism" title="Anti-Zionism">Jewish anti-Zionism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Haredim_and_Zionism" title="Haredim and Zionism">Haredim</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_Autonomism" title="Jewish Autonomism">Jewish Autonomism</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_and_democratic_state" title="Jewish and democratic state">Jewish democracy</a></li>

<li>Jewish fascism

<ul><li><small><a href="Kahanism" title="Kahanism">Kahanism</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Revisionist_Maximalism" title="Revisionist Maximalism">Revisionist Maximalism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_feminism" title="Jewish feminism">Jewish feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish law">Jewish law</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_left" title="Jewish left">Jewish left</a></li>

<li><a href="Pacifism#Judaism" title="Pacifism">Jewish pacifism</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_political_movements" title="Jewish political movements">Jewish political movements</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_right" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish right">Jewish right</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_secularism" title="Jewish secularism">Jewish secularism</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish socialism">Jewish socialism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Bundism" title="Bundism">Bundism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Poale_Zion" title="Poale Zion">Poale Zion</a></li>

<li><a href="Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Religious_Zionism" title="Religious Zionism">Religious</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="World_Agudath_Israel" title="World Agudath Israel">World Agudath Israel</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Akhand_Bharat" title="Akhand Bharat">Akhand Bharat</a></li>

<li><a href="Feminism_in_India#Hindu_feminism" title="Feminism in India">Hindu feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Gandhism#Religion" title="Gandhism">Gandhism</a></li>

<li><a href="Hindu_law" title="Hindu law">Hindu law</a></li>

<li><a href="Neo-Vedanta" title="Neo-Vedanta">Hindu modernism</a></li>

<li><a href="Hindu_nationalism" title="Hindu nationalism">Hindu nationalism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Hindutva" title="Hindutva">Hindutva</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Hindu_Rashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu Rashtra">Hindu Rashtra</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Panun_Kashmir" title="Panun Kashmir">Panun Kashmir</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Bangabhumi" title="Bangabhumi">Bangabhumi</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Hindu_revolution" title="Hindu revolution">Hindu revolution</a></li>

<li><a href="Hindu_revivalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu revivalism">Hindu revivalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Religion_and_environmentalism#Hinduism" title="Religion and environmentalism">Hindu environmentalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Integral_humanism_(India)" title="Integral humanism (India)">Integral humanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_Aryans" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous Aryans">Indigenous Aryans</a></li>

<li><a href="Rama#Rama_Rajya" title="Rama">Rama Rajya</a></li>

<li><a href="Saffronisation" title="Saffronisation">Saffronisation</a></li>

<li><a href="Shuddhi_(Hinduism)" title="Shuddhi (Hinduism)">Shuddhi</a></li>

<li><a href="Uniform_civil_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform civil code">Uniform civil code</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Anti-communism#Buddhism" title="Anti-communism">Buddhist anti-communism</a></li>

<li><a href="Buddhist_feminism" title="Buddhist feminism">Buddhist feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Buddhist_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist law">Buddhist law</a></li>

<li><a href="Buddhist_modernism" title="Buddhist modernism">Buddhist modernism</a></li>

<li><a href="Criticism_of_Buddhism#Nationalism" title="Criticism of Buddhism">Buddhist nationalism</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="969_Movement" title="969 Movement">969 Movement</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Nichirenism" title="Nichirenism">Nichirenism</a></small></li>

<li><small><a href="Sinhalese_Buddhist_nationalism" title="Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism">Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Buddhist_socialism" title="Buddhist socialism">Buddhist socialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Engaged_Buddhism" title="Engaged Buddhism">Engaged Buddhism</a></li>

<li><a href="Humanistic_Buddhism" title="Humanistic Buddhism">Humanistic Buddhism</a></li>

<li><a href="Secular_Buddhism" title="Secular Buddhism">Secular Buddhism</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other208" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="American_civil_religion" title="American civil religion">American civil religion</a></li>

<li><a href="Disestablishmentarianism" title="Disestablishmentarianism">Disestablishmentarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial cult (ancient Rome)">Imperial cult</a>

<ul><li><small><a href="Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome">Ancient Rome</a></small></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Gottgl%C3%A4ubig" title="Gottgläubig">Gottgläubig</a></li>

<li><a href="Khalistan_movement" title="Khalistan movement">Khalistan movement</a></li>

<li><a href="Reclaiming_(Neopaganism)" title="Reclaiming (Neopaganism)">Neopaganist feminism</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_aspects_of_Nazism" title="Religious aspects of Nazism">Religious aspects of Nazism</a></li>

<li><a href="Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">Cult of personality</a></li>

<li><a href="State_Shinto" title="State Shinto">State Shinto</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">Absolute monarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Autocracy" title="Autocracy">Autocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberal_autocracy" title="Liberal autocracy">Liberal</a>

<ul><li><a href="Tsarist_autocracy" title="Tsarist autocracy">Tsarist</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Communist_state" title="Communist state">Communist state</a></li>

<li><a href="Counterintelligence_state" title="Counterintelligence state">Counterintelligence state</a></li>

<li><a href="Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a>

<ul><li><a href="Benevolent_dictatorship" title="Benevolent dictatorship">Benevolent</a></li>

<li><a href="Civilian_dictatorship" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilian dictatorship">Civilian</a></li>

<li><a href="Constitutional_dictatorship" title="Constitutional dictatorship">Constitutional</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Dictablanda" title="Dictablanda">Dictablanda</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Grassroots_dictatorship" title="Grassroots dictatorship">Grassroots</a></li>

<li><a href="Military_dictatorship" title="Military dictatorship">Military</a></li>

<li><a href="Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">Proletarian</a></li>

<li><a href="Right-wing_dictatorship" title="Right-wing dictatorship">Right-wing</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Dominant-party_system" title="Dominant-party system">Dominant-party system</a></li>

<li><a href="Illiberal_democracy" title="Illiberal democracy">Illiberal democracy</a>

<ul><li><a href="Totalitarian_democracy" title="Totalitarian democracy">Totalitarian</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Libertarian_authoritarianism" title="Libertarian authoritarianism">Libertarian authoritarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Mafia_state" title="Mafia state">Mafia state</a></li>

<li><a href="Managerial_state" title="Managerial state">Managerial state</a></li>

<li><a href="Mediacracy" title="Mediacracy">Mediacracy</a></li>

<li><a href="Mob_rule" title="Mob rule">Ochlocracy</a></li>

<li><a href="One-party_state" title="One-party state">One-party state</a></li>

<li><a href="Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">Oligarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Police_state" title="Police state">Police state</a></li>

<li><a href="Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a>

<ul><li><a href="Islamic_state" title="Islamic state">Islamic state</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Tyrant" title="Tyrant">Tyranny</a>

<ul><li><a href="Tyranny_of_the_majority" title="Tyranny of the majority">Majoritarian</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="Authoritarian_conservatism" title="Authoritarian conservatism">Authoritarian conservatism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chiangism" title="Chiangism">Chiangism</a></li>

<li><a href="Francoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Francoism">Francoism</a></li>

<li><a href="Putinism" title="Putinism">Putinism</a></li>

<li><a href="Metaxism" title="Metaxism">Metaxism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Authoritarian_capitalism" title="Authoritarian capitalism">Authoritarian capitalism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Pinochetism" title="Pinochetism">Pinochetism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Authoritarian_socialism" title="Authoritarian socialism">Authoritarian socialism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a></li>

<li><a href="Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a></li>

<li><a href="Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Deng_Xiaoping_Theory" title="Deng Xiaoping Theory">Deng Xiaoping Theory</a>

<ul><li><a href="Xi_Jinping_Thought" title="Xi Jinping Thought">Xi Jinping Thought</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="Juche" title="Juche">Juche</a></i></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Despotism" title="Despotism">Despotism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Enlightened_absolutism" title="Enlightened absolutism">Enlightened</a></li>

<li><a href="Ecoauthoritarianism" title="Ecoauthoritarianism">Ecoauthoritarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a>

<li><a href="Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialism</a></li>

<li><a href="Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>

<li><a href="Religion_and_authoritarianism" title="Religion and authoritarianism">Religious</a>

<ul><li><a href="Caesaropapism" title="Caesaropapism">Caesaropapism</a></li>

<li><a href="Khomeinism" title="Khomeinism">Khomeinism</a></li>

<li><a href="Ziaism" title="Ziaism">Ziaism</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Statism_in_Sh%C5%8Dwa_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Statism in Shōwa Japan">Shōwa Statism</a></li>

<li><a href="Techno-authoritarianism" title="Techno-authoritarianism">Techno</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Democracy_indices" title="Democracy indices">Democracy indices</a></li>

<li><a href="Deep_state" title="Deep state">Deep state</a></li>

<li><a href="Inverted_totalitarianism" title="Inverted totalitarianism">Inverted totalitarianism</a></li>

<li><a href="Authoritarian_personality" title="Authoritarian personality">Personality</a>

<ul><li><a href="Authoritarian_leadership_style" title="Authoritarian leadership style">Leadership style</a></li>

<li><a href="Right-wing_authoritarianism" title="Right-wing authoritarianism">Right-wing</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_dominance_orientation" title="Social dominance orientation">Social dominance orientation</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Statism" title="Statism">Statism</a></li>

<li><a href="Political_strongman" title="Political strongman">Strongman</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_totalitarian_states" class="mw-redirect" title="List of totalitarian states">List of totalitarian states</a></li></ul>