Principles of Conduct
February 19, 2021•112 words
Principles of Conduct, first published in 1957, is in fact Murray's masterpiece. It is best read as an exploring and fleshing out, and thereby a testing and verifying, of three hermeneutical hypotheses: (1) that single, perfectly coherent divine-command ethic (the law of God) is taught from Genesis to Revelation, and thus remains in force from history's beginning to its anticipated end; (2) that the grace of God is intended not to lead away from, or beyond, a life of law-keeping, but precisely to enable sinners for it; (3) that law-keeping belongs to the purest expression of pure religion.
—J.I. Packer, Foreword to 'Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics' by John Murray