Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms

by VanDrunen, David

• ISBN13: 9780802864437
• ISBN10: 0802864430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-30
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David VanDrunen is Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary California, an ordained minister, and a licensed attorney. His other books include Bioethics and the Christian Life and A Biblical Case for Natural Law.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Natural Law, the Two Kingdoms, and the Untold Story of Reformed Social Thought	p. 1
Precursors of the Reformed Tradition	p. 21
Reforming Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: John Calvin and His Contemporaries	p. 67
Natural Law in Early Reformed Resistance Theory	p. 119
The Age of Orthodoxy: Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms in Reformed Doctrine and Practice	p. 149
Theocratic New England, Disestablished Virginia, and the Spirituality of the Church	p. 212
An Ambiguous Transition: Abraham Kuyper on Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms	p. 276
The Christological Critique: The Thought of Karl Barth	p. 316
The Kuyperian Legacy (I): Herman Dooyeweerd and North American Neo-Calvinism	p. 348
The Kuyperian Legacy (II): Cornelius Van Til and the Van Tillians	p. 386
Conclusion: The Survival and Revival of Reformed Natural Law and Two Kingdoms Doctrine	p. 423
Bibliography	p. 435
Index	p. 463
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