A few weeks ago, we noted that a Christian college in Arkansas had launched the “David Barton School of Political Science” … and that, yes, that is its actual name.
On his radio program today, Barton revealed that this program is just one of many that he is helping to found and coordinate at Christian colleges around the country, including one at Andrew Wommack’s Charis Bible College in Colorado where Barton is setting the curriculum and will serve as a part-time instructor at the “School of Practical Government.”
When Barton and Wommack discussed the new program recently, Barton explicitly linked it to Seven Mountains Dominionism, which he has preached before.
Seven Mountains theology teaches that Christians are to take control of the seven primary institutions, or “mountains,” that shape and control our culture — (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion — and use them to implement biblical standards and spread the Gospel.
Christians, Barton said, have not had much success in taking over the government “mountain” and that is why he and Wommack have started a school to provide activists with the practical skills they’ll need to go out and put government “back in the position God wants it.”
“The need for it is pretty simple,” Barton explained. “A lot, in the Christian community, we hear about the Seven Mountains or the Seven Mountains of Influence and it really is the deal that when they went into the Promised Land, there were these seven mountains that had to be conquered and you look at them today and you say, well, that’s business, that’s education, that’s government, that’s media, that’s whatever. One of them is government and that’s something that we’ve stayed away from for a long time. Proverbs 29:2 says that when the wicked rule, the people groan; it doesn’t take a hearing aid to hear all the groaning going on. It’s because the righteous have not been involved.”
Barton’s school will train students in what the Bible teaches about the role and purpose of government so that “when they come out of here, [they] can go make a positive impact in restoring the nation, putting it back in the position God wants it, in a position that righteousness exalts a nation.”
