A Biblical View of Law and Justice

In A Biblical View of Law and Justice, David McIlroy sets out a biblical theology of law and justice as they are expressed across Scripture. The overall argument of the book is that law, and the human structures of political and legal authority, have a distinct but limited role to play in God's purposes in our world. Law protects the creation goods of human life, dignity, and liberty and creates space in which people are free to labour and love in meaningful ways. Participation in and building up those structures is a valid and important Christian calling. David thus provides Christian lawyers, judges, politicians, and those in law enforcement a framework for thinking about their own calling and participation in God's work through their careers.