Unaffiliated Reconstructionist ministers built their own denominations and school networks

Evidence

The son of an evangelist who settled in Moscow, Idaho, Wilson had helped found “a Baptist-leaning, ‘hippie, Jesus People church.’” He had little formal theological training, and his church was, in his words, a “Baptist-Presbyterian ‘mutt.’” After encountering the teachings of Rushdoony, he inculcated Reconstructionist-inspired values within his faith community. Due to his hybrid theology, and no doubt also to his cantankerous personality, no established Reformed denomination would claim him. Undaunted, Wilson started his own denomination. In 1981, he founded the Logos School, a classical Christian academy, and he became a leader in the classical Christian education movement, establishing the Association of Classical and Christian Schools in 1994, and that same year founding New Saint Andrews College, a four-year classical Christian college with the motto: “For the faithful, wars shall never cease.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 406

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s contestation question: Wilson’s institutional entrepreneurship — founding schools, colleges, denominations — shows a mechanism by which one strand can command institutional infrastructure, relevant to whether this is THE white evangelicalism or A strand. — connects to: Vision Forum institutionalized Reconstructionist patriarchy via the homeschool network. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 430
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Vision Forum institutionalized Reconstructionist patriarchy via the homeschool network. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 430