We have it on the highest authority possible that the children of this world are sometimes wiser than the children of light.
One has the feeling that when Christians in general, and theologians in particular, venture into the political and quasi-political realms, they appear somewhat as innocents abroad. I fear that both Wayne Grudem in his Politics according to the Bible and Dr. John Hayward, in his review of Grudem’s book in the October issue of EN, give this impression. I shall enumerate a number of areas where, I believe, they have misconstrued things.
1. Dr. Hayward writes: ‘Grudem demonstrates . . . how the nine unelected members of the US Supreme Court have recently appropriated the power not only to interpret and judge according to the nation’s laws and Constitution, but also to make new laws — a section that has worrying parallels with what is reportedly happening with Britain’s law lords and Supreme Court’.
