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Prof. Donald R. McConnell: Why do many Protestants Christians fail to believe in natural law?

By Alliance Alert

Donald R. McConnell, Professor of Law at the Trinity Law School of Trinity International University, writing at Trinitarian Don: "One of the strange questions in Christian legal philosophy is why most Protestant Christians no longer believe in the doctrine of natural law ? the idea that there is an unwritten identical trans-cultural objective moral standard accessible to all human beings . . . One major reason Protestants tend not to believe in natural law is they think natural law is incompatible with a strong view of the fall . . . A second reason many Protestants do not believe in natural law is kindred to the first: this is the belief man?s reason is fouled by sin and hence does not support moral knowledge . . . The third reason many Protestants do not accept natural law is that they have never heard a proper explanation of it."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).