LOVE RULES
The Ten Commandments for the 21st century
Ed. Stuart Bonnington & Joan Milne. Banner of Truth. 118 pages. £6.00
ISBN 978-0-85151-057-9
While acknowledging that the Decalogue was given to a redeemed people, the writers of this book see three uses of God’s moral law as summarised in the Ten Commandments: ‘To convict the sinner of sin, to restrain evil [and] to guide the Christian’. The book’s contributors, 11 Australian Presbyterian ministers and scholars, believe ‘one cannot genuinely preach the gospel without the law’ (p.2).
They see the Christian approach to the Ten Commandments as being ‘to discover what each commandment enshrines as its essential moral principle’ and ‘to read it in the light of the whole of Scripture, especially God’s personal revelation in Jesus Christ’ (p.60).
