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Originally posted by Saiph
"Theonomy in Christian Ethics" by
Greg. L. Bahnsen
Originally posted by Mayflower
Have you or maybe someone else also read these other books from Bahnsen : ?
* Theonomy, An Informed Response
Originally posted by crhoades
If you can find God and Politics: Four Views for a reasonable price - grab it.
I would start reading By This Standard as it presents the theonomic thesis in the easiest format available.
Do read Theonomy a Reformed Critique if you can lay hold of it.
No Other Standard
Theonomy: An Informed Response
and Westminster's Confession are all responses to the book.
The Shadow Christ in the Law of Moses by Vern Poythress also deals sympathetically with theonomy but still disagrees with it at points.
As far as other critiques of theonomy, the most widely distributed would be Meredith Kline's, Ligon Duncan's, and T.David Gordon's. I don't have time now but the majority if not all of these are available on the web. Otherwise there hasn't been that many full scale treatments of it. Dave Hunt did do a hatchet job called Seduction of Christianity which was responded by Demar and Leitheart in Reduction of Christianity.
A good resource is seminaries. There have been lots of dissertations on it that you can get interlibrary loan. I have a few of those but I know there are more out there.
Originally posted by Mayflower
So what about you, do believe in theonomy ? If not so , can you please explain me why ?
Iam asking this because iam just new with this tpoc, and i like to hear views on the board ?
Originally posted by VirginiaHuguenot
It is very wise to read the actual writings of theonomists and those particular works which have already been cited are worth reading. It is also wise to immerse yourself in the writings of the Reformers and the Puritans, and their heirs, as to the law of God and its application to the state, and to church-state relations. In that regard, I would ditto the recommendation to study Calvin and the Westminster Standards. In addition, I would recommend William Symington's Messiah the Prince, Heinrich Bullinger's Decades, Samuel Rutherford's Lex Rex and other works in that vein, some of which are identified in this thread and the many other threads on theonomy. I myself am not a theonomist but I am a theocrat. The distinction, I think, is an important one.
? I'm confused...I thought everyone did that?Originally posted by Romans922
maybe you should give him a list of books not from all one or two authors, but of multiple authors.
Originally posted by crhoades
? I'm confused...I thought everyone did that?Originally posted by Romans922
maybe you should give him a list of books not from all one or two authors, but of multiple authors.
God and Politics: 4 views = multiple authors
Theonomy a Reformed Critique = multiple authors
Theonomy an Informed Response = multiple authors
and then we mentioned books by:
Poythress, Bahnsen, Calvin, Confessions, Rutherford, Symington, Bullinger, and then I mentioned articles by Duncan, Kline, and Gordon...
I guess if we need to stack up a few more books on this load, go to www.freebooks.com for a ton of books by various authors on this topic or www.chalcedon.edu.
Another good book written by various authors is Explicitly Christian Politics ed. by Einwechter.
I think we've officially reached overkill now...
[Edited on 10-12-2005 by crhoades]