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Biggar Nigel

The revival of natural law : Philosophical, theological and ethical responses to the Finnis-Grisez school - England Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2000 - 299p xiii

Table of contents
Contents:
Introduction: The new natural law theory, Rufus Black;
Part 1: Philosophical Issues: Natural law revived: natural law theory and contemporary moral philosophy, Timothy Chappell;
Grisez and Thomism, Ralph McInerny;
The basic dimensions of human flourishing: a comparison of accounts, Sabina Alkire;
John Finnis on moral absolutes, Oliver O'Donovan;
Part II: Theological Dimensions: Is Grisez's moral theology rationalistic;
Free Choice, the human condition, and Christian ethics, GAran Bexell;
Is the new natural law theory Christian?, Rufus Black;
Karl Barth and Germain Grisez on the human good: an ecumenical rapprochement, Nigel Biggar;
Grisez's ecclesiology, the role of moral theologians, and the scope for responsible dissent, Bernard Hoose;
Part III: Moral Fields: Respect for life in Germain Grisez's moral theology, Dave Leal;
Natural sex: Germain Grisez, sex and natural law, Gareth Moore, O.P.;
Grisez on sex and gender: a feminist theological perspective, Lisa Sowle Cahill;
The moral standing of nature and the new natural law, Michael Northcott;
Conclusion, Nigel Biggar;
Index.

ISBN: 9780754612629

Dewey Class. No.: 340.112000 / BIG