Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought Hardback
Edited by Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, Micah, long-time policy analyst Watson
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:16/11/2012
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- ISBN:9780739173220
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:16/11/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780739173220