Is it the case that the wise man always says less than he knows?

David VanDrunen discusses his book Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions.

That we do not now see the world subject to man is profoundly tragic. What happened? How did human beings, created in such a high position, end up mired in our present woe, and why does the world around us share our misery?

The church as an outpost of the Kingdom of God does not act under the laws of strict justice but of mercy.

Israel's kings instruct us about the greater king who was to come.

Regarding bioethics, perhaps no doctrine is more important than anthropology. Having a biblically-grounded anthropology certainly does not guarantee an easy answer to every bioethical question, but it does provide necessary context for evaluating bioethics conundrums.

The doctrines of the Two Kingdoms and the Ordo Salutis with the doctrinal and ethical distinctions they entail are still critically important for a biblically sound account of the nature of the Christian life and its relation to the Reformed system of doctrine.

In Old Testament Israel we see a foreshadowing, a type of the heavenly eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ.

We are to identify with Jesus in his humility, suffering, and lowering of himself for our sake.

An explanation of the various aspects of the Reformed doctrine of justificaiton, with special attention given to how movements such as the New Perspective on Paul and Federal Vision have posed challenges to this doctrine in the present day.

A theological and historical analysis of the second use of the law.

How cultural developments pose ever-new moral challenges.

A Reformed defense of the practice of infant baptism.

Scripture makes clear the role of the Holy Spirit: to testify about Jesus Christ and apply His salvation.