Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

4-14-2008

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; *Humanities - Forthcoming Areas; Religious Studies Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Humanities Network

Abstract

This short essay is a review of Stephen Grabills book Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics The book is an historical treatment of place of natural law thought in the magisterial Reformation Its stated aim is to assist contemporary Protestant pastors denominational officials theologians ethicists public intellectuals seminarians graduate students and general readers to rediscover and rehabilitate natural law and related doctrinal concepts The book with its meticulously documented source material will be especially valuable to legal scholars attempting to engage natural law from the perspective of Reformation theology or to find common ground between Protestant and Catholic legal thought

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