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Nov 10, 2015 · Augusto Zimmermann, “The Christian Foundations of the Rule of Law in the West: A Legacy of Liberty and Resistance against Tyranny,” Journal of Creation 19 (June 2005): 67. Ibid. Alvin J. Schmidt, How Christianity Changed the World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), 248–49. Zimmermann, “Christian Foundations of the Rule of Law,” 68. ****
- Logic and Consistency
- The Meaning of The Contrast Between Works of The Law and Faith in Christ
- The Christian’s Relationship to The Law—Paul’S Ambiguous Verdict
Räisänen’s thesis about Paul’s self-contradictory theology of the law represents an important swing of the scholarly pendulum back to the radical criticism of Paul which was so common in the last decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries: it is no accident that he so often quotes W. Wrede and P. Wernle with approval. Th...
Sanders has argued his case about the character of Palestinian Judaism so effectively that it will be extremely difficult for anyone to reinstate the old consensus opinion that Jesus’ and Paul’s contemporaries were merit-earning legalists. I am also convinced by Sanders and Stendahl that the proper context for understanding Paul’s arguments about w...
It seems to me that scholars have so far been least successful in explaining this puzzling aspect of Paul’s theology of the law—that is, how he can talk of Christians being removed from the sphere of the law while also sometimes quoting it with approval as the law they fulfil. It has at least become clear that many of the commonly accepted explanat...
Feb 6, 2023 · The most famous of them was Daniel, but he was away in the "king's court," unaware of what was happening. However, three of Daniel's friends (originally named Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah until Nebuchadnezzar changed their names to Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego) were there faced with a dilemma: deny their faith or disobey their ego-tripping king.
- Robert Hampshire
Oct 29, 2023 · Later Christian thinkers like Aquinas argued that law is ordered to ends directed by God and the end of the natural law is the “common good” of God’s creation. [5] Natural law provides the moral structure for society such that citizens can live well within its bounds.
- Ian Clary
For example, Paul says many things about Jews in Rom 2:17–29—they rely on the law, know God’s will through the law, are educated in the law, have light, knowledge and truth through the law, “do”, “observe”, “keep” and “transgress” the law, and have the law as a written code—yet tellingly, Paul never says these things of Christians (pp. 88–100).
Rivers makes five observations; ‘(a) Humanity has no rights against God…(b) All human relations are ultimately reflections of relationships with God: rights are therefore not primary…(c) Some aspects of morality cannot be cast in terms of rights…(d) Rights prejudice against communitarian benefits…(e) Legal rights are not necessarily the best means of enforcing morality’. 6 In ...
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Mar 8, 2021 · The Ceremonial Law, which governed the temple sacrifices and Israel’s worship. The Judicial Law, which described how Israel as a holy nation should govern itself. The judicial and ceremonial laws ended when Christ initiated the New Covenant. The ceremonial laws pointed to the coming Messiah and the forgiveness of sins (Heb. 9).
