Natural Law the Secular Mythos: What Has Been Left Unsaid in Current Deb [Hardcover]

This book argues that natural law  when construed as an epistemological and trans-culturallingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary secular discourse  has failed.

Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophical-theological tradition, namely, John Finnis, Jean Porter, and John Milbank, the text illuminates the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural.

Morgan explores how new horizons open up for natural law if the theological unsaid(s) are allowed to surface and the disremembering power of the secularmythosis overcome. The final chapter(s) of the book addresses one such horizon- that the theoretical fulcrum of the natural law lies not in its perceptual self-evidence or in its immanent secularity; but rather in its subtle provision of an immanent eschatology.

This book diagnoses why natural law theory is becoming an increasingly fragmented discourse by illustrating how natural law theorists are caught in a relationship with 'secular' discourses.Gregory Morganis Parish Priest of St Catherine Labour? Catholic Church, Australia. He is also Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, and at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.

Gregory Morgan's volume makes a cunning contribution to T&T Clark'sRessourcement Catholic Theology and Cultureseries. Less about finding ignored golden nuggets in the long tradition of Christian thinking, Morgan takes natural law and plays it off against contemporary thinkers in both Analytic and Continental philosophical theology. The upshot is that he usefully expands the types of questions one can pose about the framework of natural law reflection. Graham McAleer, Loyola University Maryland, USA

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