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Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

Covington, Jesse
McGraw, Bryan T.
Watson, Micah

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral LawUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0739173227
ISBN13: 9780739173220
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 16 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
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.

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