Top Highlights

• If law be separated from grace, then grace also disappears, for the Bible knows no antinomian grace.
• The redemptive work of Christ did not end the function of the law but rather re-established man in obedience to the law. We are redeemed, St. Paul made clear, “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us” (Rom. 8:4).
• Carl F. H. Henry, in his landmark God, Revelation, and Authority series, expresses appreciation for Theonomy in Christian Ethics: “By a wealth of biblical data Greg L. Bahnsen establishes that God’s commands impose universal moral obligation; that God’s ethical standards ought universally to inform 3 Meredith G. Kline, “Comments on an Old-New Error...
• John Calvin broke with the view that the state was autonomous, arguing for the sole rule of Christ over both church and state (as well as the noninterference between the official bodies). He reopened the way to a Christian view of the state, taking it to be subject, not to the church, but only to the laws of God.
• William Penn: “Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants.”