Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought
- ISBN-10
- 0802864430
- ISBN-13
- 9780802864437
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 466
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-12-30
- Publisher
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- Author
- David VanDrunen
Description
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. - from publisher description.
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