Natural Law in the Thought of Luther
Henry Drummond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World (1883) opens with the sentence: “Natural law is a new word.” But the term may claim a respectable antiquity: it goes back to the pre-Socratic philosophers. In Drummond's time it was merely being put to a new use. To him it meant the body...
| Published in: | Church history |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[1941]
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Church history
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance |
| Further subjects: | B
Natural law
B Natural Law B Luther,Martin |
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| Summary: | Henry Drummond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World (1883) opens with the sentence: “Natural law is a new word.” But the term may claim a respectable antiquity: it goes back to the pre-Socratic philosophers. In Drummond's time it was merely being put to a new use. To him it meant the body of principles learned in the laboratories of physical science. In the long tradition of ethical, legal, and political thought from Hippias to Kant it implied a body of principles which, resting upon a divinely implanted endowment of human nature, underlie all acceptable ethical precepts, just laws, and sound political institutions. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3160251 |