What saith the Scripture Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

Justified By Grace, Sanctified by Law.  Theonomy reaches to the Christian’s personal life and then to the nations of the world through the church’s work and witness.  On the personal level, reconstructionism strikes a welcome note against the antinomianism inherent in much of modern evangelicalism, particularly in dispensationalism.  But it goes too far.  According to Rushdoony, “Man’s justification is by the grace of God in Jesus Christ; man’s sanctification is  by means of the law of God ” (Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 4). Again,  “The law is the way of sanctification”  (p. 3). These statements set law as the antithesis of grace. They present a theory of sanctification that is not by grace but by  works of law . (Alan Cairns, Dictionary of Theological Terms (Belfast; Greenville, SC: Ambassador Emerald International, 2002), 367.)   Theonomy: A Critical Assessment with Lane G. Tipton Theonomy in its contemporary form was just beginning...