Natural law as a guide to ethics has gotten a bad name in some Protestant circles on the grounds that it is a “Roman Catholic” doctrine that insufficiently appreciates the effects of the Fall on human reason and will. David VanDrunen—professor at Westminster Seminary California, ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, with a law degree and a PhD in Christian Ethics—begs to differ. This introduction to his work on natural law lays out its Scriptural basis. It deserves a place on the shelf of any Christian interested in ethics.
Category Archives: Book Review
Book Review: Alberto Giubilini et al., “Rethinking Conscientious Objection in Health Care”
In Rethinking Conscientious Objection in Health Care, Giubilini et al. present a case against the right of healthcare practitioners to exercise conscientious objection according to their moral convictions.
Book Review: John Kleinig, “Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body”
In his book Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body, John Kleinig, a Lutheran minister and retired professor of Old Testament and biblical theology at Australian Lutheran College, draws on a Lutheran reading of Scripture to elucidate a biblical theology of the human body regarding its purpose and meaning for the Christian life.
Book Review: Dennis P. Hollinger, “Creation and Christian Ethics”
In his book, Creation and Christian Ethics: Understanding God’s Designs for Humanity and the World, Dennis Hollinger highlights that numerous authors in Scripture reference back to creation as a guide to proper living in their time, including Jesus (Matt 19:4).
Book Review: Dennis L. Durst, “The Perils of Human Exceptionalism”
Theologian Dennis Durst’s The Perils of Human Exceptionalism is a historical theological anthropology on the intellectual history of the 19th century that impacted human exceptionalism.
Book Review: Marilyn McEntyre, “Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict”
Marilyn McEntyre has succinctly written Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict as a guide for Christians to use words in ways to bring clarity and winsomeness to conversations and written communications.
Book Review: Will Willimon, “Aging: Growing Old in Church”
By framing aging theologically as a life of discipleship, Willimon avoids vapid cultural messages that seek to ignore or minimize aging, yet also criticizes the notion of retirement as freedom from secular and sacred responsibilities.
Book Review: Brian Brock, “Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ’s Body”
By framing aging theologically as a life of discipleship, Willimon avoids vapid cultural messages that seek to ignore or minimize aging, yet also criticizes the notion of retirement as freedom from secular and sacred responsibilities.
Review Essay: Odyssey into Post-Reality? Review of Chalmers’ Reality+
Reality+ argues not only for the reality of a simulated world, but also for the real possibility that we ourselves exist as simulations within it. What is going on here, and why is it significant?
Book Review: Gilbert Meilaender, “Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, 4th edition”
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians is manna for the people of God in the wilderness and serves the welfare of the secular city (Jer 29:7). Ethics, in this book, becomes doxology.