Weekend Reads: Loving the law and combatting culture
Believers are “not under law,” in that keeping the law does not grant them any right to eternal life. Nonetheless, the law is the “way to life” in this respect: For those saved by grace, keeping the law leads to the possession of eternal life. Antinomians disagree; for them, the law is only a way to death.
Like the scholastic theologians he admires, Presbyterian minister Mark Jones depends heavily on making distinctions, and one can find many arguments dependent on fine distinctions in Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest (P&R Publishing, 2013). Jones holds a Ph.D. in historical theology, and though this work aims at a popular audience, it is utterly unafraid to dive deep into Scripture and the work of Reformation-era intellectual giants....