Mediators of Yahweh’s Rule Yahweh’s authority is image-less, like Yahweh himself. However, Yahweh is immediately present in conquest, judgment, and law. Israel still had a problem in its history: it could never consolidate. It had land, judgment, and victories (though never absolutely), but it had no stable means of passing it down. Even acknowledging the …
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An intro to Oliver O’Donovan’s Political Theology, part 1
I don’t like terms like “political theology” because they are academic buzzwords and hence doomed to future irrelevancy. “Public theology” is much better, but either will work in this case. When I was in seminary I was at an impasse between theonomy and its alternatives. I wasn’t entirely convinced that Bahnsen’s exegesis was superior. …
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