Natural Law, Natural Theology, and the Protestant Critique: Are We Really That Far Apart
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Natural Law
Introduction to Natural Law
How Human Creativity Can Transform The African Economy (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
C.S. Lewis, Law, and Liberty (Engage the Speaker AU2021)
Engage the Speaker Session for “C.S. Lewis, Law, and Liberty” (AU2021). Original Lecture description below. As Christians, we all agree corruption is bad. As citizens, we also agree corrupt behaviors must be punished by law. However, there are differences in how corrupt behaviors are perceived in different societies around the world, as well as in …
Foundations Panel
Join Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley, Dr. Samuel Gregg, and Michael Matheson Miller as they engage in a Question and Answer session about Acton University’s four Foundational Lectures: 1) A Christian Vision of Government, 2) An Introduction to Natural Law, 3) The Economic Way of Thinking, and 4) A Christian Vision of the Human Person.
C.S. Lewis, Law, and Liberty
As Christians, we all agree corruption is bad. As citizens, we also agree corrupt behaviors must be punished by law. However, there are differences in how corrupt behaviors are perceived in different societies around the world, as well as in how effectively perpetrators are actually punished in every country – if punished at all. How …
Introduction to Natural Law – Engage the Speaker
People: Africa’s Most Valuable Resource
Jimmy Lai interview with Fr. Sirico
At the age of 13, Jimmy Lai escaped China to experience freedom in Hong Kong and grew to be one of Hong Kong’s highest-profile media moguls. Through his work, Lai founded the anti-Beijing newspaper Apple Daily and became an outspoken critic of the People’s Republic of China, solidifying him as one of Hong Kong’s most …
Natural Law and the Protestant Reformation
While the formal significance of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation might be celebrated by Protestants and lamented by Catholics, reflecting back on sixteenth-century reform 500 years removed affords valuable lessons. The occasion also allows us to highlight the theological and legal thinking of a most remarkable though much forgotten figure of the Protestant …
Natural Law and the Revenge of Conscience
We often say right and wrong are vague and hard to know. The natural law tradition says that’s nonsense: the moral basics are known to every human being. If this is true, then we aren’t ignorant, just self-deceived. So what happens if we tell ourselves that we don’t know what we really do?