Natural Law, Catholicism, and the Protestant Critique: Why We Are Really Not That Far Apart

Catholics and Evangelical Protestants often find themselves on the same side on a variety of issues in bioethics. However, some Evangelicals have expressed reluctance to embrace the natural law reasoning used by Catholics in academic and policy debates. In this article, I argue that the primary conc...

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Main Author: Beckwith, Francis 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2019]
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 154-168
IxTheo Classification:CF Christianity and Science
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDD Protestant Church
KDG Free church
NCH Medical ethics
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Summary:Catholics and Evangelical Protestants often find themselves on the same side on a variety of issues in bioethics. However, some Evangelicals have expressed reluctance to embrace the natural law reasoning used by Catholics in academic and policy debates. In this article, I argue that the primary concerns raised by Evangelicals about natural law reasoning are, ironically, concerns expressed by and intrinsic to the natural law tradition itself. To show this, I address two types of Protestant critics: (1) the Frustrated Fellow Traveler and (2) the Solo Scripturist.
ISSN:1744-4195
Contains:Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbz001