Sentences with phrase «on natural law»

But even without that data, a substantive argument can be made based on the natural law.

Whether the temperature rises or falls is dependent on the natural laws of nature and nothing else.

They believed that the universe operated solely on natural laws.

They are ignorant of our laws and and that they were founded by christians on natural law and intentionally not christian law.

Drawing on these Greek origins, Christian thinkers through the centuries have written on natural law, developing its insights to this day.

For us, the work is more about truth and transparency of Christ's message and working on the natural laws of accountability and decision making that evolves from that.

Given the debt that all three traditions owe to Aristotle, it might seem that the Stagirite's views on natural law as the foundation for morality would point the way to greater comity, if not outright amity; but Rubenstein's history of that debt does not leave much room for hope either.

It must not be overlooked that because the Church has to announce a revelation which came to an end with the apostles, it is engaged in a history of reflection on the natural law committed to its care.

As a young undergraduate, I sat in on a summer seminar on natural law Hadley led on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

The Catholic Church, drawing on natural law theology, has condemned pornography as undermining human dignity and subverting the common social good.

This article is adapted from a paper delivered at a conference on Natural Law and Public Policy at the Cleveland - Marshall College of Law.

Of course, the theologian will respond that what St. Paul knew of the Christian mysteries can cast a helpful light not only on natural law but also on its situation in the hearts of the sons and daughters of Adam.

He also gives due recognition to Rabbi David Novak's important work on natural law within the context of covenantal theology.

As for the current developments at Fordham Law School, notice should be taken of recent gains, such as the hiring of Gene Harper to teach a course on natural law.

In summing up the moral of Rousseau's attack on the natural law, Reilly shows how essential it is both to the rationalization of homosexuality and its tyrannical ramifications:

The great Western theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) expounded on natural law in his Summa Theologica.

For another, the Fourteenth amendment to the Constiitution hinges principally on the natural law concept of the rights of man.

This lesson follows on from the lesson on Natural Law.

In fact, the reader will perhaps be surprised to learn, David Novak's book is not only a most effective and learned defense of the use of natural law in Judaism, it is also one of the most brilliant expositions of natural law theory I know, fully worthy to join ranks with works on natural law by Yves Simon, Russell Hittinger, and John Finnis.

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

That said, Christians must in turn remind themselves that a specifically Christian sexual morality can never be based solely on natural law.

So sharply contrasting are his views on natural law that it almost seems as if Novak were adopting Thomas Aquinas» method, that is, beginning his book with the concession: «It would seem that the concept of natural law can not function inside Jewish theology or jurisprudence.»

Tracey Rowland, for instance, offers an overview of recent work on natural law, and she has in view the explicit possibility «of reconciling tensions between the younger generation of Catholic scholars working within the Thomist and Balthasarian traditions.»

There are 4 other proofs, all based on Natural Law, that logically prove God's existence.

Indeed, the very nature of Catholic teaching has occasioned this type of challenge, for the church maintains that its teaching is based on the natural law, which in principle can be rationally apprehended by all human beings.

The after life is based on Natural Laws.

Even arguments based on natural law have a prophetic character in our skeptical age.

All that said, we shouldn't give up on natural law.

When a hypothesis moves on to become a theory, it has predictable results based on natural laws that we observe daily.

The Church is interested in the application of truth based on natural law.

A convincing catechesis based on Natural Law could lessen the damaging effects of this presentation.

The Church's defence of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but rather a «language» which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world.