I recently read Isaiah 1 and in a round-about, blast-from-the-past, mind-bender kind of way was reminded that back in the early 80's I was exploring something fringe, something weird. What was it? Something embarrassingly right wing, something about natural/God's law and... Now I confess that Google and Wikipedia has helped my memory along: what I was reading/exploring was stuff like Reconstructionist Theology with writers like R. J. Rushdoony and Gary North. The long and short of it was that there was (is) an absolute law (God's) and that we should aggressively recreate our world -- economics, culture, and so on -- accordingly. Their main verse is Genesis 1:26: "Let them have dominion over... the earth...". I know I'm oversimplifying, but there are two problems with Dominion Theology (Reconstructionism or Kingdom Now Theology): The mandate for dominion -- which is more accurately translated care-taking, I'm told -- was given in a pre-fallen ...