Reviews for Abortion, Doctors and the Law

The average rating for Abortion, Doctors and the Law based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-14 00:00:00 Raquel White This book was originally Ernest Kevan's doctoral dissertation where he dives deep into the Puritan writers of the 16th and 17th centuries to reveal the doctrinal teachings that these historical writers had on the relationship between the Law of God has given in the Old Testament with the Truth of the Saving Grace of Christ's work in the cross. While the book was difficult to read at times, the author expected you to know a certain level of Greek and writers in the 16th and 17th centuries didn't care too much about spelling, which slowed down my reading at times. However, where this book excels in was through a deep theological dive into the truths of the relationship between the Law of God and the Grace of the Gospel. Kevan also breaks down many critiques that were issued against the Puritan writers about the supposed legalism of the Puritans and how grace abounded all the more in their writings. One particular quote from the book towards the end summarizes things pretty well for me. Kevan writes, "In the theological confusion of the seventeenth century, the Puritans found themselves opposing the Antinomians on the one hand and the Neonomians on the other. Both these parties, however, were moved by the same praiseworthy desire to state the Christian doctrine of sanctification in a way that would preserve it from abuse. The former desired to secure it against legalism and the latter against libertinism. The Puritans resisted both these extremes and expounded the truth of sanctification in terms of the paradox of active-passivity, or a working out in active godliness of that which had been worked in by the renewing and enabling grace of God. They taught that in the work of sanctification the believer was neither self-indulgently-passive nor self-sufficiently-active. The Puritans held that Christian liberty freed the believer, not from the Law, for for the Law; so that although he is no longer "under" the Law, he is, nevertheless, still "in" the Law. This, they taught, was freedom itself. The Puritans believed that this freedom in the Law - a freedom dependent on the Law - was effected by the Holy Spirit who applied the saving merits of Christ's death to the believer and then wrote the Law within his heart. Love for the Law thus gave power to keep it." May that be an encouragement to those who struggle with the Law of God in the Christian faith for freedom is waiting. This book can help the reader see that.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-26 00:00:00 Julio Chavez Brizuela You know you’re going to get some good scholarship when you flip to the back of the book and find the bibliography is 20 pages long, and that the footnotes take up 1/4-1/2 of each page in the book. Yes, it requires concentration. This is not your modern evangelical garden variety five minute devotion at lunch reading. Set aside prime time for this (when your brain is able to engage). It’s worth the read. And on a personal note...it’s nice to finally get to the point in your own reading where you recognize most of the cited authors and/or works, find you’ve already covered many of them directly, and have even more lined up in your “to-be-read” mental queue. A few more decades, and I may finally get to the place I qualify for “has scratched the surface” standing. Gold star!