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Natural Law: Five Views

Natural Law: Five Views

Biermann, Joel D.
Littlejohn, Brad
Moschella, Melissa

Paperback

Series: Criticalpoints

General ChristianityGeneral Law

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 031012865X
ISBN13: 9780310128656
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The story of natural law - the idea that God has written a law on the human heart so that ethical norms derive from human nature - in twentieth-century Protestant ethics is one of rejection and resurgence. For half a century, luminaries like Karl Barth, Carl F. H. Henry, and Cornelius Van Til cast a shadow over natural law moral reflection because of its putative link to natural theology, autonomous reason, associations with Catholic theology, and ethical witness devoid of special revelation. However, over the past twenty years, Protestant theologians have renewed their interest in the subject, often animated by debates on Christian involvement in the public arena and on matters of life, death, and gender and sexuality. Much of this engagement has happened within Reformed circles and has largely been conducted without reference to Roman Catholic construals of the natural law. Conversely, Catholic developments in natural-law thinking have paid little attention to the surge of interest on the Protestant side. As a result, Protestant and Catholic natural proponents - and even those skeptical of the natural law - are not in conversation with one another.

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