A BIBLICAL VIEW OF LAW AND JUSTICE
By David McIlroy
Paternoster. 203 pages
ISBN 1 84227 267 5
This book is panoramic in its scope, starting with an overview of God's character, and ending with a contemplation of his love and justice demonstrated in final judgement.
In between, the author surveys the effects of the fall on how justice is worked out, the role of the Mosaic law in revealing God's intentions for his people, the purpose and function of Israel's king in upholding justice and the failure of successive kings to do so, the call of the prophets to repentance, an examination of what Jesus's kingship means and does not mean, the role of the Spirit in doing what the law could never do and changing our hearts, and an examination of what our attitude should be to secular authority and government.
