Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought. 9780739173220. Innbundet - 2012

Jesse Covington is assistant professor of political science at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. Bryan McGraw is an assistant professor of politics and international relations at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. Micah Watson is director of the Center for Politics & Religion and assistant professor of political science at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought

Covington Jesse McGraw Bryan T. Watson, Micah

Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk

Covington Jesse McGraw Bryan T. Watson, Micah

Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk

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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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Introduction Part I: Understanding Evangelical Discomfort with Natural Law Chapter 1: Burying the Wrong Corpse: Evangelicals and Natural Law J. Daryl Charles, Bryan College Chapter 2: Karl Barth’s Eschatological (rejection of) Natural Law Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University Chapter 3: The Doctrine of Creation and the Possibilities of an Evangelical Natural Law Bryan McGraw, Wheaton College Part II: Evangelicalism and Natural Law: Continuing Questions Chapter 4: Natural Law and Mosaic Law in the Theology of Paul: Their Relationship and Its Implications David VanDrunen, Westminster Seminary California Chapter 5: Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity Robert George, Princeton University Chapter 6: Reason and Will in Natural Law Paul DeHart, Texas State University—San Marcos Chapter 7: Natural Law: Friend of Common Grace? Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College Part III: An Evangelical Natural Law Tradition? Charting a Path Forward Chapter 8: The Grammar of Virtue: St. Augustine and the Natural Law Jesse Covington, Westmont College Chapter 9: C.S. Lewis as Natural Law Evangelist: Evangelical Political Thought and the People in the Pew Micah Watson, Union University Chapter 10: The Natural Law and the Church as ‘Counter-Polis’ Matthew D. Wright, Biola University Chapter 11: More Than a Passing Fancy? The Evangelical Engagement with Natural Law J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, Austin

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In this excellent, scholarly volume, thoughtful essays by J.D. Charles, R. George, and others examine the reticence of most modern evangelicals to the claims of natural law theory.

Les mer

In this excellent, scholarly volume, thoughtful essays by J.D. Charles, R. George, and others examine the reticence of most modern evangelicals to the claims of natural law theory.