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Reddit mentions of The Word of God and the Words of Man: Books II and III of Richard Hooker's Laws: A Modernization (Hooker's Laws in Modern English Book 3)
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Word of God and the Words of Man: Books II and III of Richard Hooker's Laws: A Modernization (Hooker's Laws in Modern English Book 3). Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | March 2018 |
>taxation is wrong because it is essentially stealing money from people to fund the government.…Is taxation not essentially theft and thus immoral?
Taxation is not theft because, under God, the government has lawful authority over the legal definition of property and its limits and/or obligations. Private property, although having some type of grounding in natural law, is primarily a matter of human law and is subject to prudential deliberation.
>If Christ has all authority in Heaven and on Earth, shouldn’t biblical law be the standard in our governments?
>Are my theonomic/reconstructionist tendencies wrong?…Is Christ’s rule of Heaven and Earth right now mean something different?
Theonomy/reconstruction is right to say that Christ has authority even over all governments and politics and societies. It is wrong to think that this requires implementing the Mosaic civil code. See Theocracy without Theonomy at the Calvinist International, and Richard Hooker's superb explanation of law in Divine Law and Human Nature: Book I of Hooker's Laws: A Modernization and The Word of God and the Words of Man: Books II and III of Richard Hooker's Laws: A Modernization.
I will spare you a long reply and suggest that you read the recently released The Word of God and the Words of Man (Books II and III of Hooker's Laws), released by Davenant Trust and available on Amazon here. The 16th century language has been updated and is happily accessible to a broad lay audience today.
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Hooker provides a thoughtful, nuanced handling of Holy Scripture and its relationship to human authority, defending both its clarity against Rome's innovations, but also pointing out its boundaries against a sort of comprehensive, subjective employment advocated by the early English Puritans.
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It is a work, as the late, great Fr. Peter Toon used to emphasize, that is both Reformed and Catholic, as the Church must always be.