The First Grace
Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World
In the book's first section, Hittinger defines the natural law, considers its proper relationship to moral theology and the positive law, and explains how and when judges should be guided by natural law considerations. Then, in the book's second section, he contends with a number of controversial legal and cultural issues from a natural law perspective. Among other things, he shows how the modern propensity to make all sorts of rights claims undermines the idea of limited government; how the liberal legal culture's idea of privacy elevates the individual to the status of a sovereign; and how the Supreme Court has come to cast religion as a da…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4976-5144-9
- EAN: 9781497651449
- Produktnummer: 19291702
- Verlag: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 380 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Russell Hittinger holds the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he also has an appointment as Research Professor of Law. The author of A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory, Hittinger is on the editorial board of First Things and the advisory board of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. In 2001, he was elected to the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas in Rome.
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