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If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
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.
If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
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