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Originally Posted by Scott  I don't think so. The Protestants' penalties were typically more flexible and generally more lenient those of theonomists. For example, the big theonomists do not advocate fines, but that was a common Protestant penalty. |
That's not necessarily true. Theonomists do not always advocate the death penalty. The only reason that many find the idea of "fines" problematic is because it often denies justice to the victim (the rich guy paying his way off).
What I am getting at is that the old school reformers are closer to the theonomists/theocrats in that they denied religious pluralism and used the magistrate to promote the Christian religion. That sort of talk would get one fired from a Reformed seminary today.