Moral Choices, ch. 13

This final chapter deals with "legislating morality". Rae rightly defines the terms suggesting that morals, in the sense of moral behavior, is daily and necessarily legislated. We cannot avoid it. Rae's point for Christians is to remind them that the church is meant to be a model of community focusing primarily on its calling to discipleship and evangelism. He also reminds the church that using Biblical language may be ineffective. In this position, he shows his cards that he is a pluralist (not in the negative post-modern sense). He is in good company as it seems that Grudem took the same position. The three approaches he discusses, though are theonomist, Christian restoration, and pluralism.