Natural and Divine Law Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics

Name: Natural and Divine Law Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics
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ISBN: 9780802846976

ISBN-10: 0802846971

ISBN-13: 9780802846976

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jean Porter

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Foreword


Introduction



Framing the Question



Recent work on the natural law



The social context: The consolidation of European society



The intellectual context: Scholasticism



The scholastic concept of the natural law



Nature and Reason



The scholastic concept of the natural law: Sources and context



The starting point: Nature and convention



Nature and reason



Medieval naturalism and its implications today



Scripture and the Natural Law



Scripture and the natural law: Theological antecedents



Natural law and Scripture in scholastic thought



Natural law and moral norms



The natural law as law



The theological significance of the natural law



Marriage and Sexual Ethics



Sexuality in the scholastic concept of the natural law



Marriage in scholastic thought



Marriage, women and society: Legal and moral views



Implications for contemporary Christian ethics



Some specific issues



Social Ethics



From natural inclination to social practice



The ideal of equality and its social expressions



From natural law to natural rights



Two hard cases: Servitude and social persecution



Towards a theology of social life


Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of the Natural Law


Bibliography


Index