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natural law

The idea that basic fundamental laws exist in nature that are common to all humankind. Natural law is distinct from positive law, which is those laws imposed on people by people.
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Quite simply, the lex naturalis was of much greater concern to both early and late reformers than writers such as Stanley Hauerwas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Helmut Thielicke would have us believe.
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Gallagher, Daniel B. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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