JCR Vol 02 No 2: Symposium on Biblical Law

This ghastly but of theological nonsense indicates the nature of the crisis of our age. It is an era of disintegration, and the agencies that should be in the forefront of Christian reconstruction–seminaries, churches, colleges–have no idea that there is a need for reconstruction. If they did, they wouldn’t know where to begin. And if they knew where to begin, they would drive off the road within a mile. They have no roadmap, for the roadmap of reconstruction is provided by biblical law. Biblical law is a topic which has not been discussed seriously in this century. Liberal theologians may study it in detail–often more carefully than the conservatives–only to conclude that these laws were simply late compilations of an oral tradition of an obscure Middle Eastern tribe. (Why a man would devote his life to a study of such documents is a mystery.) Conservative theologians have almost universally ignored the topic, dismissing it as not being germane to “the church’s dispensation,” or simpl