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  • The Institutes of Biblical Law, Vol. 1

  • The Institutes of Biblical Law Series
  • By: R. J. Rushdoony
  • Narrated by: Nathan Conkey
  • Length: 56 hrs and 9 mins

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By: R. J. Rushdoony
Narrated by: Nathan Conkey
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Publisher's Summary

To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. To attempt to understand Western civilization apart from the impact of biblical law within it and upon it is to seek a fictitious history and to reject 20 centuries and their progress.

The Institutes of Biblical Law has as its purpose a reversal of the present trend. it is called "Institutes" in the older meaning of that word--i.e., fundamental principles, here of law, because it is intended as a beginning, as an instituting consideration of that law that must govern society, and that shall govern society under God.

To understand biblical law, it is necessary to understand also certain basic characteristics of that law. In it, certain broad premises or principles are declared. These are declarations of basic law. The 10 Commandments give us such declarations.

A second characteristic of biblical law is that the major portion of the law is case law--i.e., the illustration of the basic principle in terms of specific cases. These specific cases are often illustrations of the extent of the application of the law--that is, by citing a minimal type of case, the necessary jurisdictions of the law are revealed.

The law, then, asserts principles and cites cases to develop the implications of those principles, with is purpose and direction the restitution of God's order.

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