Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought
Jesse Covington · Bryan T. McGraw · Micah Watson
Nov 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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314
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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.
About the author
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.
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.
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