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    This document provides a summary and review of the book "Theonomy in Christian Ethics" by Greg L. Bahnsen. The reviewer states that the book marks Bahnsen as a major figure and that it addresses the important question of whether God's law or man's law should guide ethics. Key points of the book discussed are that the Spirit does not replace the law, that the law must be fulfilled, and that sanctification necessitates the law. While the reviewer disagrees with Bahnsen on the law of taxation, they emphasize that it is a major work that theologians should not ignore.

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    This document provides a summary and review of the book "Theonomy in Christian Ethics" by Greg L. Bahnsen. The reviewer states that the book marks Bahnsen as a major figure and that it addresses the important question of whether God's law or man's law should guide ethics. Key points of the book discussed are that the Spirit does not replace the law, that the law must be fulfilled, and that sanctification necessitates the law. While the reviewer disagrees with Bahnsen on the law of taxation, they emphasize that it is a major work that theologians should not ignore.

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    Rushdoony Review of Bahnsen

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    This document provides a summary and review of the book "Theonomy in Christian Ethics" by Greg L. Bahnsen. The reviewer states that the book marks Bahnsen as a major figure and that it addresses the important question of whether God's law or man's law should guide ethics. Key points of the book discussed are that the Spirit does not replace the law, that the law must be fulfilled, and that sanctification necessitates the law. While the reviewer disagrees with Bahnsen on the law of taxation, they emphasize that it is a major work that theologians should not ignore.

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    Chalcedon Report

    July, 1977, No. 143

    Book Notices [by R.J. Rushdoony]


    Greg L. Bahnsen: Theonomy in Christian Ethics Nutley, New Jersey: The Craig Press, 1977 xvii
    plus 619 pp.

    The publication of this book, a Chalcedon study, marks Bahnsen as a major and central force on
    the American theological scene. Cornelius Van Til in Christian Theistic Ethics, stated it clearly:
    "There is no alternative but that of theonomy and autonomy." God's law or man's law. The
    church, as Bahnsen points out, has been halting between two opinions and has leaned towards
    autonomy by asserting the "heresy of easy believism", "under grace, not law" (p.163). The Spirit,
    he shows, does not replace the law. "According to the Scripture the written word contains the
    message from God; the function of the Spirit is to illumine the mind of the reader....The law
    could not be against those who walk by the Spirit, for they are fulfilling the law." Gal. 5:14,23
    (p.170f.) Moreover, "The primary requirement of the law was circumcision of the heart (Deut.
    10:16) and seeking God with one's whole person (Deut. 4:29); fundamental to the keeping of the
    law was faith (Deut. 1:32; 9:23; 10:12; especially 6:2)." (p. 186).

    Bahnsen's analysis (p.51ff.) of the meaning of "fulfill" (Matt. 5:17-19) is especially masterly and
    of central importance, as are his analysis of various texts in Romans and Galatians. He makes
    abundantly clear that "sanctification necessitates the law" (p. 173ff.), that the attributes of the law
    are also the attributes of God (p. 143ff.), that "the law of God is identical with the law of Christ"
    (p. 195), that "law and grace are correlative to each other" (p. 235), that "any covenant
    relationship demands obedience to God's statutes" (p. 187f.), and much, much more.

    This reviewer (RJR) would differ with Bahnsen on the law of taxation, but the essential fact is
    that this is a major work. Theologians who choose to by-pass or neglect it will do so at the peril
    of irrelevance. In fact, it must be said that the growing irrelevance of the church to our world is
    due to its antinomianism. This study is a powerful witness against that evil, and a work to be read
    carefully and widely.

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