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Divine  Com
mand  
and  Natural
 Law  
Ethics  

An emphasis on God’s
commands is an important
part of Christian Ethics

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Plato  

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Plato  

Ethical Voluntarism

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Thomas  Aquinas  

Anything that God commanded

that was consistent with his
character would be good.

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Questions About Divine

Command Ethics

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Nonconflicting Absolutism

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A second alternative is to admit

that real moral conflicts do
exist, but sin is still sin, even
when a person is faced with
competing obligations.

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Graded Absolutism or
Hierchialism

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Dietrich  Bonhoeffer  

Natural Law in Christian

Ethics

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Natural Law in Christian

Ethics
it refers to general, objective, transcendent
moral principles that are not specifically tied
to the special revelation of Scripture.

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Biblical Basis for Natural Law

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Limits of Natural Law

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Limits of Natural Law

Limits of Natural Law

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Limits of Natural Law

Natural Law and the Law of

the Land

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Positivism

Realism

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Summary  

Summary  

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