Natural law and evangelical political thought
By: edited by Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780739173220; 9780739173237
Subjects: Natural law; Evangelicalism; Religion and law
Description: This volume explores the problems and prospects attending evangelical engagement with natural law as a key feature for political thought. Engaging theology, philosophy, political theory and biblical studies, many contributors are optimistic about the prospects of evangelical re-appropriation of natural law, but note ways in which evangelical commitments might lend distinctive shape to this engagement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Burying the wrong corpse : / J. Daryl Charles, Bryan College; title: Karl Barth's eschatological (rejection of) natural law : an eschatological natural law theory of divine command / Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University; title: The doctrine of creation and the possibilities of an evangelical natural law / Bryan T. McGraw, Wheaton College; title: Natural Law and Mosaic Law in the Theology of Paul : their relationship and its social-political implications / David VanDrunen, Westminster Seminary California; title: Natural law, god, and human dignity / Robert P. George, Princeton University; title: Reason and will in natural law / Paul R. DeHart, Texas State University-San Marcos; title: Natural law : friend of common grace? / Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College; title: The grammar of virtue : St. Augustine and the natural law / Jesse Covington, Westmont College; title: C.S. Lewis as natural law evangelist : evangelical political thought and the people in the pew / Micah Watson, Union University; title: The natural law, civic friendship, and Stanley Hauerwas's counter-polis thesis / Matthew D. Wright, Biola University; title: More than a passing fancy? : the evangelical engagement with natural law / J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, Austin.