Politics and Law
The basis of contemporary human law consists in the moral core of biblical law that is perpetually binding.
The basis of contemporary human law consists in the moral core of biblical law that is perpetually binding.
Modern claims about human rights are limitless, built as they are on the sinking sand of pure subjectivism.
It shows average Americans that they’re not crazy. Things really are headed off the rails in many ways.
Would that a love of order were cultivated in our homes and desired by our governing officials, and carried over into affairs of state.
The fact that political power may be used for evil provides no valid reason for it to be rejected or ignored. Power must be used for good.
So many difficulties would be easier to solve if Christians could rightly separate, without radically divorcing the two kingdoms.
Proverbs is addressed to Israel’s king, but just like all of the non-political proverbs in the book, the ones having to do with political order are timeless.
Certain aspects of how God made the world do not cease to be operative simply because sin has twisted and deformed those institutions.
Politics, as a reflection of the image of the God who first ordered and forever rules the world, is fundamental to who we are as human beings.
Citizens living according to virtue in good republics. That is the Christian political project in a nutshell.