Christian Reconstructionism: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence

by Frederick Clarkson 

The Public Eye Magazine, Vol. VIII, No. 1 & 2,  March/June 1994

Part 1
Overview and Roots

The Christian Right has shown impressive resilience and has rebounded dramatically after a series of embarrassing televangelist scandals of the late 1980s, the collapse of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and the failed presidential bid of Pat Robertson. In the 1990s, Christian Right organizing went to the grassroots and exerted wide influence in American politics across the country. Continued