Chilton was a Reconstructionist. Ron Sider began arguing that anyone who is not living in poverty is going to hell. He said that the government--at gunpoint--should confiscate wealth as a "tithe." It was socialism plus the barricades. Chilton came along with a free market defense, a critique of Sider, and an exposition of what the Bible says about wealth.

Orthodox Christianity holds that the means of grace are in the church. Sider put the means of grace in the State.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College