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The law of love

In heaven, doing what God wants will be second nature. Till then, reflection on God's law is an indispensable part of discerning what it means in practice to love God and to love our neighbour.

by David McIlroy, Cambridge Papers
Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 11:52 (BST)
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[26]John Calvin, Instruction in Faith (1537), tr. by P. Fuhrmann, Westminster John Knox Press, 1992, pp.30-32.

[27]See Neh. 10:31 and 13:15-22.

[28]Mark 2:27.

[29]Lev. 27:30-32; Deut. 14:22; Mal. 3:8-10.

[30]See the dialectic at work in 1 John.

[31] Jürgen Moltmann, The Power of the Powerless, tr. by M. Kohl, London: SCM, 1983, p.42. Regrettably this insight is not followed through consistently by Moltmann in his other work: see ch. 2 of McIlroy, A Trinitarian Theology of Law, Paternoster, forthcoming.

[32]Hence the emphasis on being taught God's laws: see Exod. 33:13; Deut. 4:10; 1 Sam. 12:23; and, above all, Ps. 119.

[33]John 20:17; 16:10, 17, 28; 14:1-3.

[34]Rom. 8:11; 1 Cor. 15:42-53.



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