Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological ApproachOUP Oxford, 2008年3月21日 - 270 頁 Natural law theory is controversial today because it presumes that there is a stable 'human nature' that is subject to a 'law.' How do we know that 'human nature' is stable and not ever-evolving? How can we expect 'law' not to constrict human freedom and potential? Furthermore if there is a 'law,' there must be a lawgiver. Matthew Levering argues that natural law theory makes sense only within a broader worldview, and that the Bible sketches both such a persuasive worldview and an account of natural law that offers an exciting portrait of the moral life. To establish the relevance of biblical readings to the wider philosophical debate on natural law, this study offers an overview of modern natural law theories from Cicero to Nietzsche, which reverse the biblical portrait by placing human beings at the center of the moral universe. Whereas the biblical portrait of natural law is other-directed, ordered to self-giving love, the modern accounts turn inward upon the self. Drawing on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Levering employs theological and philosophical investigation to achieve a contemporary doctrine of natural law that accords with the biblical witness to a loving Creator who draws human beings to share in the divine life. This book provides both an introduction to natural law theory and a compelling challenge to re-think current biblical scholarship on the topic. |
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... Catholic , approvingly remarks , " The Bible can no more provide us with objective , transcendent moral certainties than can natural law.1 Pace this view , this study seeks to uncover once again the fruitful- ness for moral theology of ...
... Catholic , approvingly remarks , " The Bible can no more provide us with objective , transcendent moral certainties than can natural law.1 Pace this view , this study seeks to uncover once again the fruitful- ness for moral theology of ...
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... Catholic University of America Press , 1990 ) , 99–116 . 3 In A Preserving Grace : Protestants , Catholics , and Natural Law , ed . Michael Cromartie ( Grand Rapids , MI : Eerdmans , 1997 ) , Carl E. Braaten offers a ' Response ' ( 31 ...
... Catholic University of America Press , 1990 ) , 99–116 . 3 In A Preserving Grace : Protestants , Catholics , and Natural Law , ed . Michael Cromartie ( Grand Rapids , MI : Eerdmans , 1997 ) , Carl E. Braaten offers a ' Response ' ( 31 ...
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... Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition , offers a helpful starting point . Murray remarks that ' [ i ] t would not , of course , be difficult to show that the doctrine [ of natural law ] is , in germinal fashion , scriptural ...
... Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition , offers a helpful starting point . Murray remarks that ' [ i ] t would not , of course , be difficult to show that the doctrine [ of natural law ] is , in germinal fashion , scriptural ...
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... Catholic presuppositions " that would incapacitate it for application in a plu- ralist society such as the United States . On the contrary , its presup- positions , which can be verified by rational enquiry , are ' that man is ...
... Catholic presuppositions " that would incapacitate it for application in a plu- ralist society such as the United States . On the contrary , its presup- positions , which can be verified by rational enquiry , are ' that man is ...
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... Catholicism would deny this ? 16 But the distinction , he 15 David L. Schindler , ' Religious Freedom , Truth , and American Liberalism : Another Look at John Courtney Murray ' , Communio 21 ( 1994 ) : 696–741 , at 732-3 . A greatly ...
... Catholicism would deny this ? 16 But the distinction , he 15 David L. Schindler , ' Religious Freedom , Truth , and American Liberalism : Another Look at John Courtney Murray ' , Communio 21 ( 1994 ) : 696–741 , at 732-3 . A greatly ...
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1 The Bible and Natural Law | 22 |
2 Anthropocentric Natural Law | 69 |
3 Natural Law and Natural Inclinations | 140 |
4 Natural Law and the Order of Charity | 189 |
Conclusion | 224 |
Works Cited | 235 |
Index | 255 |
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