Rights in the law : : the importance of God's free choices in the thought of Francis Turretin / / James E. Bruce.d.
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 politica...
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| Superior document: | Reformed Historical Theology, Voluem 24 |
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| 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. |
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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 ""