RT Article
T1 Natural Law in the Thought of Luther
JF Church history
VO 10
SP 211
OP 227
A1 McNeill, John Thomas 1885-1975
LA English
YR 1941
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/596366000
AB 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.
K1 Naturrecht
K1 Luther,Martin
K1 Natural Law