Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Theology, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government
| Author: | Vincent Bacote, J. Budziszewski, J. Daryl Charles, Jesse Couenhoven, Paul R. DeHart, Robert P. George, David VanDrunen, Matthew Wright | ISBN: | 9780739173237 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | November 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Vincent Bacote, J. Budziszewski, J. Daryl Charles, Jesse Couenhoven, Paul R. DeHart, Robert P. George, David VanDrunen, Matthew Wright |
| ISBN: | 9780739173237 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | November 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
