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RE: Agreeable to the Natural Law W.H. Chellis Ok… now to finish that but. Here are the three main reasons why a Reformed approach to natural law is superior to a theonomic ethic. First, natural law recognizes that its usage of biblical precedent is analogical rather than univocal. That is to say that no geo-political [...]

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RE: Agreeable to the Natural Law W.H. Chellis I hear the sound of distant drums. They are coming from Peter and I am appreciative of his comments. I admit that, in reality, I am also a “chastened theonomist”. My earliest incarnation as a Reformed believer was as a frustrated law student who preferred Bahnsen and [...]

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Agreeable to the Natural Law Peter J. Leithart At considerable risk of beating a monotonous drum, I offer a respond to Bill Chellis’s most recent post regarding theonomy. Bill Chellis’s call to biblical casuistry is welcome. I agree that working out the continuing application of Old Testament case laws is sometimes difficult, and I appreciate [...]

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Rehabilitating Theonomy (II) W.H. Chellis A further note about the use of Israel’s case law. Laws of particular equity carried a typological burden by (like the ceremonial laws) pointing to the spiritual realities of the Kingdom of God. Laws of general equity represented ethical applications of the moral law to the Israelite Theocracy as an [...]

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re: Rehabilitating Theonomy W.H. Chellis Peter Leithart’s post has raised some very helpful questions. Let me begin on an agnostic note. I do not know whether theonomists can be won over by the natural law approach of the Reformed scholastics. I do know that I meet a good deal more post-theonomists than theonomists lately. In [...]

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Re: Rehabilitating Theonomy Peter J. Leithart Bill Chellis raises some large and important issues in his first post on “Rehabilitating Theonomy.” I look forward to future installments. I am not filing a brief on behalf of what Bill rightly describes as a simplistic form of theonomy. Theonomists have always been more nuanced and complex than [...]

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Rehabilitating Theonomy (I) W.H. Chellis It is hard not to feel an attraction to theonomic ethics. Theonomy is simple (the Bible is made the sufficient standard for law and politics) and objective (Israel’s theocratic civil law is applied to all nations at all times). Further, for Reformed Christians who feel an attraction to libertarianism, theonomy [...]

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The Heidelblog takes on Theonomy W.H. Chellis Those interested in theonomy should take a look at R.Scott Clark’s Heidelblog. Clark, an Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary California, has quickly proved himself to be the master of cyber-theology. His posts are daily… if not hourly… informative and entertaining. He has a [...]

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