Excellent and fruitful discussion throughout. I agree wholeheartedly that big-kid timeout known as jail time needs to go away, to mention one of many issues Poythress clear-headedly challenges. The wheezy, groaning sound at the end of the book is the sound of Poythress becoming a reluctant theonomist. The main difference between Poythress and a more full-throated theonomy stems from the role of typological interpretation. On this difference, I am pretty sympathetic towards Poythress, but I wish (along with Bahnsen) that he had been more rigorous in defending his typological points, or at least pointed us towards a better case for handling the text that way.

One sentence: Poythress shows us how to love and submit to God's law, giving due respect to its authority and relevance today, in the full light of Christ's work. ( )