Divine Legislator

The person whose being is at the disposal of others and ultimately at the disposal of God because such a soul knows that it is not its own and does not belong to itself. Paul says that he no longer lives on his own, but by faith in the Son of God (Gl 2:20). In this context, without a commitment in faith to the reconciliation between sinners in this broken world and God, humanity could not have the character of love, discernment and trust that is proper to the people of God within the church community who already, by God’s grace through faith, share in the divine life opened up to us in Jesus Christ. Dulles (1971) has defended the faith associated with human virtues. However, Anscombe (1958) argued that philosopher should take into account what

Anscombe (1958) pointed out how modern philosophers who recognize the origins of the notions of‘obligation’or ‘duty’ in the natural law conception of ethics, do not believe in God as a lawgiver and reject the notion of a divine legislator. That is like retaining a law conception of virtue ethics without a divine legislator. Therefore, without a grounding of the divine law and an idea of a sovereign God as the supreme legislator, the concept of virtue ethics expressing overriding obligation has no

Several years ago, in speaking before an American Legion convention, the late Dr. Charles W. Mayo reiterated it with all the prestige of his professional authority and eminence as a famous physician and surgeon. It was therefore in his opinion absurd to imagine that it would ever be possible to abolish war. War, he said, is part of our human inheritance, and hence lies beyond our control. This point of view has a particularly strong appeal to the conservative type of mind. It is easy for conservative thinkers to believe that all institutions in human society are the outgrowth of the fundamental and unchangeable characteristics of human