The Decline of a Christian Conception of Natural Law
Abstract
This paper will attempt to describe the birth process and life adventures of the concept of the natural moral law as a force in the history of political philosophy, and to examine the historical period and clime that were res- ponsible for its decline. This concept is not a man-made idea in the sense that any one man or group of men can be credited with having elaborated or developed it. Rather, it is the formulation, over a period of centuries, of man's instinctive awareness of an objective moral order governing all aspects of human life, to which order each man is bound to conform.
Subject Area
Philosophy|Spirituality|Religion
Recommended Citation
Drennen, M. Eileen Connolly, "The Decline of a Christian Conception of Natural Law" (1954). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28623288.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28623288
