Christianity and Natural Law
Title | Christianity and Natural Law PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Doe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107186447 |
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Christianity and the Laws of Conscience
Title | Christianity and the Laws of Conscience PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey B. Hammond |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 471 |
Release | 2021-06-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108835384 |
This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.
Ethics and Religion
Title | Ethics and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Harry J. Gensler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-05-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107052440 |
This book develops strong versions of divine command theory and natural law and defends the importance of God to morality.
The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Angier |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 359 |
Release | 2019-11-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108422632 |
How do ethical norms relate to human nature? This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume surveys the latest thinking on natural law.
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics
Title | Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Grabill |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2006-10-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0802863132 |
Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? While these questions of natural theology and natural law have historically been part of theological reflection, the radical reliance of twentieth-century Protestant theologians on revelation has eclipsed this historic connection. Stephen Grabill attempts the treacherous task of reintegrating Reformed Protestant theology with natural law by appealing to Reformation-era theologians such as John Calvin, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Johannes Althusius, and Francis Turretin, who carried over and refined the traditional understanding of this key doctrine. Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics calls Christian ethicists, theologians, and laypersons to take another look at this vital element in the history of Christian ethical thought.
Christianity and Law
Title | Christianity and Law PDF eBook |
Author | John Witte, Jr. |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-04-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521697491 |
What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical traditions. Still others were reformed by Renaissance humanists and Enlightenment philosophers. But whether original or reformed, these Christian teachings on law, politics and society have made and can continue to make fundamental contributions to modern law in the West and beyond.
Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law
Title | Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law PDF eBook |
Author | Kody W. Cooper |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | 413 |
Release | 2018-03-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0268103046 |
Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes’s novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes’s place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.