RSSEntries Tagged as 'Natural Law'
Horton Hears A Pro-Life Message?
Last Saturday we took the kids to see the movie Horton Hears a Who.
It was a lot of fun.
I heard more than a Who. “Who” else detected a pretty strong pro-life theme? Was it on purpose or did Horton’s motto “a life is a life no matter how small” accidently strike [...]
Rethinking National Confession
To the RPCNA I owe my new life in Christ. She is my mother and I dearly love her.
In loyalty to my mother I have tried to work through her doctrine of the mediatorial Kingship of Christ over the nations and to defend its 20th Century application National Confessionalism. I have always found [...]
Meats of Woe
Industrial and farming are two words that should never be in the same sentence except by way of contrast. Kinda like the words industrial and ecclesiastical. Mega-churches with cheap salvation. Mega-meats with cheap chicken. Everyone once in a while a news story offers a warning about the dangers, even the sins, [...]
The Protestant Kirk
I posted this on a Russell Kirk discussion group and got some good feedback. I thought it might be worth while to post here.
I object to Protestantism being denied the right to defender the
natural law.
While I agree that Kirk was not so much a Thomist as an Augustinian
you will find that the Reformers were [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 3
O GOD, merciful Father, who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as are sorrowful; Mercifully assist our prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil [...]
Response to Darryl Hart: The Radicality of Christian Obedience
Darryl, you write: “Andrew, I’d be glad to answer these reflections if I weren’t already asking for you to answer them.”
What?! I have been providing answers to this (admittedly) difficult question. The “hard sayings” of Jesus are called such because they are not easy for anyone who recognizes the validity of natural [...]
In Defense of a Theology of Cross and Glory: Part 1
“To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations…just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star…To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and [...]
A Reformed Scholastic on Natural Law
Here is a fine example of a Reformed Thomist dealing with natural law.
Kirk: For and Against the Natural Law
So far I have been accused of holding to high a view of the natural law and to low a view of it. I want to do justice to a proper view so will allow the venerable ghost of Kirk to speak. I appreciate Kirk’s view as it seems to me very close [...]
RE: Agreeable to the Natural LawW.H. ChellisOk….
RE: Agreeable to the Natural Law
W.H. Chellis
Ok… now to finish that but.
Here are the three main reasons why a Reformed approach to natural law is superior to a theonomic ethic.
First, natural law recognizes that its usage of biblical precedent is analogical rather than univocal. That is to say that no geo-political nation-state can [...]