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Penultimate Thoughts on Theonomy

by John M. Frame After some twenty years of studying, discussing and debating theonomy, I would like to summarize the points I think most important. I would like to believe that these will be my final “thoughts,” but I have learned never to regard any of my analyses as final. Hence I call these “penultimate.” Theonomy can be defined simply as adherence to God’s law, which would make all Christians, especially Reformed Christians, into theonomists. Here I define the term more...

Review of Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics

By John Frame THEONOMY IN CHRISTIAN ETHICS, by Greg L. Bahnsen. The Craig Press, Nutley, N. J. Paper, 620 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by the Rev. John M. Frame, associate professor of apologetics and systematic theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa. Greg Bahnsen is a former student of mine. He is now teaching apologetics and ethics at Reformed Seminary, Jackson, Miss., while finishing his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Southern California. The author insists that...

Van Til: A Reassessment

by John M. Frame I have written a book on Cornelius Van Til, which will be published this year, Lord willing, by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. The book is a sympathetic, critical analysis of Van Til’s thought; it tries to determine what in Van Til is of value for apologists today. Bill Edgar of the WTS faculty saw the ms. and suggested that I come to the conference and present to you some of its ideas. In the final chapter, I summarize the approach to Van Til taken in the book, and...