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I am not familiar with them, but I have read the Wiki pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism
Christian Reconstructionism is a religious and theological movement within
Protestant Christianity that calls for Christians to put their faith into
action
in all areas of life, on public sphere as well. The beliefs characteristic of
Christian Reconstructionism include:
* Calvinism, for its description of individual spiritual regeneration
by the
Holy Spirit that is required to change people on a personal level before any
positive cultural changes can occur,
* Theonomy: applying the general principles of Old Testament and New
Testament
Law to the corresponding family, church and civil governments (compare with
theocracy); opposed to church-state separation of any kind, believing the state
is under God and is therefore commanded to enforce God's Law.
* Postmillennialism, the Christian eschatological belief that God's
kingdom
began at the first coming of Jesus Christ, and will advance progressively
throughout history until it fills the whole earth through conversion to the
Christian faith and worldview,
* The presuppositional apologetics of Cornelius Van Til which holds
there is no
neutrality between believers and nonbelievers, that the Bible reveals a
self-authenticating worldview and system of truth, and that non-Christian,
non-Reformed belief systems self-destruct when they become more consistent with
their presuppositions, (Bahnsen, Van Til's Apologetic, pp. 145–6, 97, 315–6) or
even the presuppositionalist approach of Gordon Clark, and
* Decentralized political order resulting in minimal state power and
laissez-faire economics.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmillennialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatological_views
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presuppositional_apologetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Van_Til
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Clark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minarchism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_watchman_state
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire
How radical are these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion Several
states have state religions, without it being theocratic or oppressive. Several
religions have political parties that have religious based platforms ie Judaism
(Israel), Christianity (Christian democracy), Islam (Islamism and Sharia),
Hinduism (Hindutva), Buddhism, Happy Science, Cheondogyo, etc. It doesn't seem
like it would be an auothiratarian regime. Is it oppresive to have a state
religion in and of itself or to legislate morality?
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