Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

by David VanDrunenJ. Daryl Charles Matthew Wright and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/11/2012

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Natural law has long been a cornerstone of Christian political thought, providing moral norms that ground law in a shareable account of human goods and obligations. Despite this history, twentieth and twenty-first-century evangelicals have proved quite reticent to embrace natural law, casting it as a relic of scholastic Roman Catholicism that underestimates the import of scripture and the division between Christians and non-Christians. As recent critics have noted, this reluctance has posed significant problems for the coherence and completeness of evangelical political reflections. Responding to evangelically-minded thinkers’ increasing calls for a re-engagement with natural law, this volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical rapprochement with natural law. Many of the chapters are optimistic about an evangelical re-appropriation of natural law, but note ways in which evangelical commitments might lend distinctive shape to this engagement.

ISBN:
9780739173237
9780739173237
Category:
Central government
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-11-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books

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