This page is currently a collection of the webpages on RBO related to political theology.
We hope to add much more in the future.
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“There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy…”
James 4:12
“For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God… For he is the minister of God to thee for good.”
Rom. 13:1,4
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Topics Below
On Civil Government 3
On Erroneous Political Views 3
On Civil Laws 5
On Authority & its Abuse 6
The State & Religion 8
Church-State Relations 9
On Dissent 2
On Ethics 6
The Ethics of Particular Civil Issues 6
The Family & the State 3
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On Civil Government
This is about Church constitutions, but the same principles apply civilly.
‘Civil Magistrate’ in Works Against the Roman Apologist Robert Bellarmine
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On Erroneous Political Views
Contra Socialism, Communism, etc.
On Toleration & Pretended Liberty of Conscience
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On Civil Laws
On Positive Laws & Ordinances, & the Law of Nations
On the Ordinances, Order & Policy of the Church
While Church government and civil government are significantly different, yet both are only capable of enforcing positive ordinances of good order. As this is the case, the principles on this page are very pertinent to a philosophy of civil law. Read especially the Introduction.
The General Equity of the Old Testament Civil Laws
Whether Ladies have the Right to Vote for Church Officers
While this page mainly pertains to the Church (one article addresses the civil question), many of its principles apply to civil voting (though ecclesiastical and civil voting are not completely parallel).
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On Authority & its Abuse
How Far the Laws & Commands of Human Authorities Bind the Conscience
On Implicit, or Blind Faith & Obedience
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The State & Religion
The Civil Magistrate’s Authority Around Spiritual Things (Circa Sacra)
The Extent of Christ’s Mediatorial Kingdom
This deals with historic Two-Kingdom theology and the erroneous modern version of the same.
Difference of Religion does Not Make Void the Magistrate’s Authority
The Westminster Divines on Social Covenanting
Defenses of Scottish Covenanting & the Indulgence & Occasional Hearing Controversies, 1661-1688
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Church-State Relations
The Establishment Principle (The Biblical View)
The Interpretation & Defense of the Original Westminster Standards
How Far the Church May Speak to Civil Issues
Besides by offerings, the Biblical and classic reformed view of the Post-Reformation was that the magistrate was morally bound to financially provide for the material welfare of the True Religion in the land.
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On Dissent
Difference of Religion does Not Make Void the Magistrate’s Authority
Against Separation from Impure Civil Governments
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On Ethics
On the Relations Between the 1st & 2nd Tables of the Law
On Things Indifferent (Adiaphora)
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The Ethics of Particular Civil Issues
During a Time of Spreading Disease
‘For Civil Magistrates’ in Historic Reformed Quotes on Social Distancing & the Adaptation of the Church in a Time of Spreading Disease
Advice to Magistrates During a Plague: the Reformed Treatise of von Ewich, 1582
The Right of Continued Protest unto the Truth
This page is mostly about the Ecclesiastical context, but it applies equally to civil society.
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The Family & the State
‘Civil & Church Governments are by Positive Law, but not the Family’ in On Positive Laws & Ordinances, & the Law of Nations
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