Someone asked whether theonomy is wooden and inflexible. Here’s what Joel McDurmon had to say to that:
It is actually high liturgy that is wooden and inflexible. It constrains and demands that “worship” be limited to “the book.” Then they distract themselves with “beauty”—embroidered robes, candles, shiny objects—as if that was flexibility. There is a reason the continuing anglican world is split into a hundred tiny denominations. It is just as wooden and inflexible as anything in the Reformed world.
On the converse, Theonomy stipulates that there are Ten Basic principles that can be applied in a million different circumstances. The only things that are inflexible are the civil and religious rights that God’s law gives (which cannot be alienated by any man or government), and the only thing that is highly regulated and strictly fixed, inflexibly, are the powers of civil government to punish or harm.
There is a reason why, historically, where God’s Law is taken seriously, you see liberty, and where high liturgy ascends in culture, you have tyrannical invasive church courts, canon law, and a state to match.
