Click here to listen to an AI podcast of this article. There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the word “theonomy.” For many Christians, the term immediately evokes images of a theocracy, Mosaic civil legislation, or a rigid attempt to reconstruct ancient Israel within modern society. While some advocates of theonomy have argued for stronger continuity between Mosaic judicial law and modern civil government, that is not the argument being made here. But that is not what I mean by “mere theonomy.” By mere theonomy, I mean the simple recognition that God alone is the ultimate source of justice, righteousness, morality, and law. What many Christians fail to recognize is that some form of theonomy is already intrinsic to every society’s understanding of morality, justice, and judicial application. The only real question is whether those standards are grounded in God or in the autonomous will of man. Any society, nation, or government that rejects God as the ultimate ...