[f. Gr. θεό-ς God + -νομία, -NOMY, after Ger. theonomie (1838 in Heyse).] Administration or government by God; the condition of being ruled or governed by God.
1890. J. F. Smith, trans. Pfleiderer’s Developm. Theol. since Kant, i. 14. His autonomy must therefore … be an actual (not merely subjectively conceived) theonomy.
1905. P. T. Forsyth, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 578. The God who rules us in Christ is not a foreign power. Theonomy is not heteronomy. He, our law, becomes also our life.
