Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian EthicsWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999 - 340 strán (strany) Though the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics. Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval period, Porter's work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today. |
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Preface | 9 |
Foreword | 11 |
Introduction | 15 |
Framing the Question | 25 |
1 Recent work on the natural law | 29 |
The consolidation of European society | 34 |
Scholasticism | 41 |
4 The scholastic concept of the natural law | 48 |
5 The theological significance of the natural law | 164 |
Marriage and Sexual Ethics | 187 |
1 Sexuality in the scholastic concept of the natural law | 190 |
2 Marriage in scholastic thought | 199 |
Legal and moral views | 206 |
4 Implications for contemporary Christian ethics | 212 |
5 Some specific issues | 224 |
Social Ethics | 245 |
Nature and Reason | 63 |
Sources and context | 66 |
Nature and convention | 76 |
3 Nature and reason | 85 |
4 Medieval naturalism and its implications today | 98 |
Scripture and the Natural Law | 121 |
Theological antecedents | 124 |
2 Natural law and Scripture in scholastic thought | 129 |
3 Natural law and moral norms | 146 |
4 The natural law as law | 156 |
1 From natural inclination to social practice | 247 |
2 The ideal of equality and its social expressions | 259 |
3 From natural law to natural rights | 268 |
Servitude and social persecution | 277 |
5 Towards a theology of social life | 283 |
The Continuing Relevance of the Natural Law | 303 |
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