Rights in the law : : the importance of God's free choices in the thought of Francis Turretin / / James E. Bruce.d.

• Superior document: Reformed Historical Theology, Voluem 24
• VerfasserIn: Bruce, James E. (Philosopher),
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: German; English
• Series: Reformed historical theology ; Volume 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

James E. Bruce explores the relationship between morality and God's free choices in the thought of Francis Turretin (1623-1687). The first book-length treatment of Turretin's natural law theory, Rights in the Law provides an important theological backdrop to Early Modern moral and political philosophy. Turretin affirms Thomas Aquinas's approach to the natural law, calling it the common opinion of the Reformed orthodox, but he develops it, too, by introducing a threefold scheme of right (ius)-divine, natural, and positive-to explain how change within the law is possible. For example, God can ch

Table of Contents

""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Body ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""From the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period""; ""Turretin�s Approach to the Relationship between Divine Choice and the Natural Law""; ""Turretin�s Reformed Natural Law""; ""An Outline of this Work""; ""An Explanation of the Sources Used and the Method of Citation . .""; ""2. The Law""; ""The Technical Vocabulary""; ""Using the Distinctions to Frame the Question""; ""Medieval Answers to the Question""; ""Turretin�s Relationship to Aquinas""

""The Modern Challenge: Human Establishment of Justice and Virtue""""Turretin�s Thomistic Solution: A Creative Use of Right (Ius), Authority, and Dominion (Dominium)""; ""3. Creation, Choice, and Law""; ""The Relationship between God�s Right and His Will""; ""The Breadth of God�s Choices in His Choosing""; ""Divine Choice and Divine Freedom""; ""Divine Choice and Natural Law""; ""Necessity and Divine Choice""; ""4. Partly the Nature of God and Partly His Will""; ""TheOne andTriuneGod""; ""God�s Justice andHisWill""; ""God�s Justice forGod and forUs""; ""Natural and Positive Right""

""Turretin�s Epistemology of Goodness""""God�s Holiness Constrains His Will""; ""Turretin�s Defense of His Position""; ""Response to Possible Objections to Natural Right""; ""Divine Freedom and Obligation""; ""Divine Freedom and Vindictive Justice""; ""Divine Freedom and Natural Justice""; ""The Consolation of Necessary Justice ""; ""5. God�s Power and His Law""; ""ThePowerofGod""; ""The Possible and the Impossible""; ""Supernatural and Divine Possibility and Impossibility""; ""Natural Possibility and Impossibility""; ""Moral Possibility and Impossibility""

""God�s Holiness and His Virtue""""What God Can and Cannot Do""; ""An Analysis of Contradictory Predicates""; ""God�s Power and the Impossible""; ""Divine Freedom Reconsidered with Reference to Contrary and Contradictory Things""; ""The Relationship of a Thing�s Limits to God�s""; ""ThePowerofGod andtheWill ofGod""; ""6. TheLawofGod""; ""Simple and Mixed Precepts""; ""God�s Dominion, God�s Government""; ""Natural and Positive Rights""; ""The Sabbath as an Example""; ""Distinguishing between Natural Right and Positive Right""

""Kinds of Natural Right: Divine Natural Right and Natural Natural Right""""Distinguishing between Divine Right and Natural Right""; ""Natural Right and Divine Command""; ""Abraham and Isaac""; ""Plundering the Egyptians""; ""Natural Law and Divine Choice""; ""Immutability and Indispensability""; ""7. The Case for Natural Law""; ""Five Appeals for Natural Law""; ""The Challenge of Human Sinfulness""; ""The Challenge of New World Discoveries""; ""8. Towards a More Rigorous Methodology""; ""Interpretive Framework for Natural Law""; ""9. A Summary of the Argument""; ""Sources Consulted""

""Index ""