Book Review: On Earth as in Heaven, by Peter J. Leithart
Review by Dan Darling | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Leithart’s view of the church’s mission roots in postmillennialism, which yields not just an optimism about the future, but risks placing an eschatological and redemptive burden on Christians’ work in the world.
A 1689 Baptist Perspective: Confessionalism and Theonomy
By Justin Perdue | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Confessional Baptist theology disputes theonomy in three areas.
John Gill on Theonomy
By Ian Hugh Clary | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Baptists who care about the integrity of their own tradition would do well to leave theonomy to the side and embrace the thinking of theologians like Gill whose thought well-represented the best of both Reformed and Baptist theology.
Theonomy: Serious Theology, Serious Politics, Seriously Wrong
By Al Mohler | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023Theonomy risks conflating the identity of the church and civil society as a matter of law and polity.
A Presbyterian Perspective: The Intellectual and Sociological Origins of the Christian Reconstructionist Movement
By Ligon Duncan | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023It is not our primary purpose here to provide analysis, but to describe and define, and to supply a preliminary sketch of the theoretical and environmental origins of the Christian Reconstructionist movement.
Culture Warriors: The Good and the Bad
By Michael Horton | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.28.2023The witness of the early church exposes us to a sort of culture warrior, but one who contrasts rather sharply from what’s usually meant by that term today.
Postmillennialism and Theonomy
By David Schrock | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.27.2023Christ is reigning, and he will accomplish his purpose on earth as it is in heaven. But that purpose is best seen in the beautification and building up of the church in the midst of nations, not a final golden era among the nations, where all the nations are made Christian by the church’s influence.
Book Review: Empires of Dirt, by Douglas Wilson
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.27.2023Precisely here is where theonomy is in danger of becoming a new legalism: demanding of the church what Jesus does not demand and what the church cannot in any case do.
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Theonomy and Moses’s Law
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Theonomy fails to recognize that the New Testament applies Moses’s law through Christ only to the church and never to the state.
Relating Moses’s Law to Christians
By Jason S. DeRouchie | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023How does Moses’s law apply to believers today when so much has changed with Christ’s coming, not least of which is that we are part of the new covenant and not the old?
A Progressive Covenantal Perspective: Paul and the Tripartite Division of Moses’s Law
By Joshua M. Greever | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.20.2023Christians must call their governments to pursue and maintain a divinely-given, objective standard of morality. But Paul did not hold forth the law of Moses as this standard.
The Noahic Covenant’s Importance for Government
By David VanDrunen | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.18.2023Christians’ political thinking and conduct should always reflect the fact that our governments are in covenant with God through the Noahic covenant.
Three Building Blocks for a Christian’s Political Theology
By Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: A New Christian Authoritarianism? | 04.14.2023Every pastor desires to see his congregation formed theologically. Part of this theological formation involves thinking through a number of questions that relate to church and state.
Motivation for Pastors to Embrace the Challenge of Reading ‘Communion with God’ by John Owen
By Mike McKinley | 04.11.2023There is much gold to be mined from works that have stood the test of time and helped Christians for centuries.
Book Review: From Prisoner to Prince, by Samuel Emadi
Review by Trent Hunter | 02.24.2023Emadi has put his hand to the textual plough to combine his own exegesis with the best insights of others for a compelling case for Joseph’s typological function—what we all sensed but needed a scholar to demonstrate.
