A Course Proposal Sent to Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio)<\/p>\n
27 April 2012<\/p>\n
\u201cTheocracy is an inescapable concept. The source of law in any given society is de facto<\/em> that society\u2019s God\u2014whether it be the God of the Bible, Allah, or \u2018the People,\u2019 or a dictator, or secular humanist elites. It doesn\u2019t matter, whoever defines your legal code and the punishments and\/or rewards for adhering to that code is inescapably your supreme being. \u00a0So we are all theocrats, even leftists and atheists, and even evangelicals like Colson\u2014we just argue over the correct theos<\/em> and what His law is. Choose this day whom you will serve.\u201d (Joel McDurmon, M.Div., Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary, is the Director of Research for American Vision.) \u00a0http:\/\/americanvision.org\/5133\/chuck-colson-theocrat\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cIt is not to Plato\u2019s Republic nor to Aristotle\u2019s Politics, not to the Greek city-states nor the City and Empire of Rome, and not to the Code of Hammurabi or Solon that we must look for a model of good government and a competent defense of a fee society, but to the Bible and the Hebrew republic.\u00a0 Because the Bible is divinely revealed information, it furnishes us with the principles we need to defend a free society.\u201d (John Robbins, \u201cThe Sine Qua Non of Enduring Freedom,\u201d Trinityfoundation.org, The Trinity Review, no. 295).<\/p>\n I propose a fresh course which will examine the theological, philosophical and legal assumptions which form the creedal basis of any society.\u00a0 It is the connection between the legal system and the presuppositions of the society concerning God and His Law which shapes a culture.\u00a0 Simply put, every culture has its cultus<\/em>.\u00a0 Our Christian \u201ccult\u201d has been abandoned as the source of law in the West and we now descend into Lawlessness from which we may be \u201crescued,\u201d albeit temporarily, by some form of anarchy or tyranny.<\/p>\n Proceeding from the assumption that some form of Christian base is not only \u201cideal\u201d but right and good as well True, we will develop at the conclusion of the course proposals for a Christian Law-based society by drawing from the wisdom of the past and reviewing the Scriptures and considering what they may say about the issues at hand.<\/p>\n In particular, we will consider the role of the New Covenant as a sort of filter which reforms the Law of the Old Covenant as it is advanced as the foundation of civil orders throughout the world.\u00a0 What does the ideal society grounded in Christian Law look like?<\/p>\n However different the approaches of the interpreters, we will uphold the proposition that Christ is the ruler of the nations and that His Law guides them in justice and righteousness.\u00a0 He rules, in fact, as the Sovereign who even now \u201csits at the right hand of the Father.\u201d\u00a0 He, by the Spirit, raises up and brings down governments as the Spirit moves among men and as they embrace or reject Him and His Law as Truth and the source of Justice.<\/p>\n Michael Bray<\/p>\n Hmm. \u00a0I don’t recall the courtesy of a reply from that local “higher education” institution. \u00a0 (Posted here on 23 March, 2016 Anno Domini)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Course Proposal Sent to Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio) 27 April 2012 \u201cTheocracy is an inescapable concept. 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