Natural and Divine Law : Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics /
Jean Porter.
- Michigan : William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co ; 1999.
- 340 p. :
includes index and biblioraphy
Framing the Question ....................... 25 Recent work on the natural law .................. 29 The social context: The consolidation of European society ............. 34 The intellectual context: Scholasticism ............. 41 The scholastic concept of the natural law ............ 48 Nature and Reason ......................... 63 The scholastic concept of the natural law: Sources and context ........................... 66 The starting point: Nature and convention .......... 76 Nature and reason ............................ 85 Medieval naturalism and its implications today ........ 98 Scripture and the Natural Law ............... 121 Scripture and the natural law: Theological antecedents ........................ 124 Natural law and Scripture in scholastic thought ....... 129 Natural law and moral norms .................... 146 The natural law as law ......................... 156 The theological significance of the natural law ........ 164 Marriage and Sexual Ethics .................. 187 Sexuality in the scholastic concept of the natural law ... 190 Marriage in scholastic thought ................... 199 Marriage, women and society: Legal and moral views ......................... 206 Implications for contemporary Christian ethics ........ 212 Some specific issues ........................... 224 Social Ethics .............................. 245 From natural inclination to social practice ........... 247 The ideal of equality and its social expressions ........ 259 From natural law to natural rights ................. 268 Two hard cases: Servitude and social persecution ...... 277 Towards a theology of social life .................. 283