Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study of the Development of Reformed Social Thought. By David VanDrunen
It is difficult to think of a volume that is as extensive, articulate, and persuasive as Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms. VanDrunen’s book is a thorough analysis of the Reformed understanding of natural law, viz. the ‘belief that God had inscribed his moral law on the heart of every person, such th...
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| 格式: | 电子 Review |
| 语言: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, 卷: 62, 发布: 1, Pages: 392-396 |
| Review of: | Natural law and the two kingdoms (Grand Rapids, Mich. [u.a.] : Eerdmans, 2010) (Barrett, Matthew)
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| 总结: | It is difficult to think of a volume that is as extensive, articulate, and persuasive as Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms. VanDrunen’s book is a thorough analysis of the Reformed understanding of natural law, viz. the ‘belief that God had inscribed his moral law on the heart of every person, such that through the testimony of conscience all human beings have knowledge of their basic moral obligations and, in particular, have a universally accessible standard for the development of civil law’ (p. 1), as well as the Reformed understanding of the two kingdoms, viz. the portrayal by early Reformers (Luther, Calvin) of ‘God as ruling all human institutions and activities, but as ruling them in two fundamentally different ways. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq155 |
