Stoic-Christian Natural Law and Modern Profane Natural Law1
Stoic-Christian Natural Law and Modern Profane Natural Law1
This chapter presents a lecture by Troeltsch regarding the helpful effects that questions devised with sociological principles can have on a particular historical subject: the evolution of natural law and Christian natural law. Troeltsch related the topic by defining the concept of Natural law, the notion of an ethical natural law out of which all legal and social rules and institutions emerge, and then traced the evolution of Christian natural law. In defining the notion, Troeltsch moved to the question on how the Church evolved its liaison to non-Christian facts and ideals of social life, and the answer he stated comes through the development of the concept of Christian natural law and through the conquest of all those elements with the aid of that natural law.
Keywords: natural law, Christian natural law, sociological principles, Calvinism, social life, the Church
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