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What Has Paris to Do with Augsburg?: Natural Law and Lutheran Ethics
by Cristina L.H. Traina
As Thomas Pearson’s essay so succinctly illustrates, questions about the usefulness of Roman Catholic versions of natural law theory to Lutheran ethics — or even to ecumenical conversation about ethics in which both traditions participate — have many layers. Does natural law exist? If it exists, in what exactly does it consist, and what is its theological status? |
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Martin Luther’s Pragmatic Revision of Traditional Natural Law Theory
by Thomas D. Pearson
As with so much of his writing on biblical texts, Luther's passage from the 1535 Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians is a rich porridge of assertions, qualifications and scoldings. In spite of the density of Luther’s comments here, one thing stands clear: Luther does believe in the existence of something called natural law. |
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Protestant Bias against the Natural Law: A Critique
by J. Daryl Charles
However deeply ensconced the suspicion of natural law might seem among 20th-century Protestant thinkers, it cannot be attributed to the 16th-century Reformers themselves. Both Lutheran and Reformed streams of the magisterial tradition readily affirmed the doctrine of lex naturalis and cognito Dei naturalis.... |
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Some Reflections on the Problem of Natural Law: Comments on the Papers
by H. David Baer
"Natural law" is not so much a position, but a group of positions. The term “natural law theory” designates a set of intellectual commitments together with a set of difficulties, or problematics, attendant upon those commitments. |
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Contemplating the Trinity for Lent
by Victor Thasiah
The chocolate shop nearby is encouraging people not to give up chocolate for Lent. "Just give up something like red meat," they say, "or your negative attitudes." Over the years, I've been using Lent as a time to get my life back on track. |
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John Calvin on the Christian Life
by Randall C. Zachman
Calvin dedicated a great deal of attention to the nature and scope of the Christian life, and even wrote a section of the Institutes dedicated to this theme (Inst. III.vi-x), which was often published on its own.... |