Patriarch Publishing House: Restoring the Foundations: Essays in Relational Theology

Restoring the Foundations: Essays in Relational Theology

by James Wesley Stivers (originally published in 1995)

A companion book to Eros Made Sacred. The book chapters are:

The Christian Man in Relation to God
The Christian Man in Relation to the Woman
The Christian Man in Relation to His Children
The Christian Man in Relation to the Firstborn
The Christian Man in Relation to Social Order
The Christian Man in Relation to Church and State: The Home Church
The Christian Man in Relation to Church and State: The Family Commonwealth
The Christian Man in Relation to the Land
The Christian Man in Relation to the Animals
The Colonizing Family

ISBN: 978-1-934251-25-6

7.44” x 9.68” Paperback

94 Pages

$12.95

Restoring the Foundations - Quotes:

“With this book, I am breaking company with other Christian reformers and Reconstructionists who have concentrated their efforts in the areas of politics, education, the professions, and the church. For a good number of years, I too have been very active in many of these fields of ministry. I have been a lay preacher and pastor, campus and street evangelist, political activist, civics instructor, parochial school teacher, and so on. While I do believe all areas of life are appropriate objects of renewal and reconstruction, and are appropriate settings for the Christian witness, there is only one which offers the hope of being the institutional source of renewal and reconstruction. That source is the

Christian Home.” – pages 14, 15

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“In this book, I am addressing men who have made their families their careers. Now, by this I do not refer to men who work a ‘9-to-5’ job and then come home to indulge the joys of ‘domestic life.’ That is not what is meant by making a career commitment to one’s family. I am speaking to men who see in their household the opportunity to expand God’s Kingdom in a familial way, to exercise godly dominion over their homes and through their homes, and to multiply those homes through their offspring. This is the essence of the patriarchal ministry, which provides an organic source to the reconstruction of society, rather than an institutional one.” – page 20

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“The foundation of authority in society is the Word of God as it is mediated and applied in the household of a Christian man… The pastor is not the head of the man, nor is the President. Christ is.” – page 22

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“Perhaps the most formidable obstacle to reviving a biblical Patriarchy is the very definition we give to the concept of masculinity. Even in ostensibly Christian circles, a faulty definition of manhood prevails… True manhood is defined by God.” – pages 22, 23

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“There is no relationship on Earth which takes precedence over the marital bond.” – page 30

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“When men abdicate their spiritual duties and women their domestic duties, then the equilibrium of the human species is thrown off balance. Disaster is inevitable.” – page 32

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“The Christian patriarch must spend time with his family…An absent father for the family is like an absent God for mankind.” – page 34

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“My purpose here is to elevate family duty to the Divine calling that it truly is.” – page 36

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“The burning issue is the liberty of the Christian man, which has come under assault from both state and church.” – page 60

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