Lexicographical Neighbors of Theonomous
Literary usage of Theonomous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society by James Luther Adams (1976)
"... has more profound metaphysical implications than the word "sin," for the word
has the theonomous reference necessary for any truly theological category. ..."
2. Christianity in Its Modern Expression by George Burman Foster (1921)
"A third characterization is theonomous (the ideal emerging from God and his will).
Does Christian ethics involve theonomy, heteronomy or autonomy? 3. ..."
3. For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Ian Lustick (1988)
"Ours is not an autonomous scale of values, the product of human reason, but rather
an heteronomous or, more correctly, theonomous scale rooted in the will ..."
4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1862)
"... through being acted on by inherent and external forces, may become more or
less modified, thereby resulting in gene- theonomous forms. ..."
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