A Protestant on Natural Law

Natural law is the remnant morality that endures because of God’s common grace. But it points us to saving grace.https://t.co/YHibgKBHJ2

— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) December 8, 2020

Protestants and Natural Law Theory

The rejection of natural law theory is one of the most unnecessary and tragic moves in Protestant ethics over the last seventy-five years. The more I teach from the perspective of biblical natural law, the more I see students' understanding of God's Word and world come alive.

— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) December 2, 2020

Meanwhile... universalism and particularism and "rights talk."

The myth of natural morality https://t.co/uH8b0EbIGJ

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 2, 2020

The shift from duties to individual rights defines the decline of the west. https://t.co/Qa5CRMzDdp

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) November 30, 2020

A Protestant Defense of the Common Good

A Protestant Defense of the Common Good @jordanballor https://t.co/1y8SyCCCkp via @PublicDiscourse

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) August 17, 2020

The Public Discourse

Fr. Panayioti, "The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian East"

A historic lecture given in Wittenburg Germany on the 500-year anniversary of the protestant reformation. Fr. Panayioti weighs in with a lecture called: The Protestant Reformation and the Orthodox Christian Easthttps://t.co/Z2GLtp0rpm pic.twitter.com/mUXY6wDQxk

— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) July 30, 2020

An Orthodox Perspective on the Reformation

Eric Jobe on Justification

These two pieces strongly resonated with what I've been thinking about justification this school year. Maybe someone has written something similar from a Latin viewpoint, but I have not come across it.

What Do Orthodox Christians Believe about Justification? A Response to Protestant Criticisms
Reconciling Paul and James: Thoughts about Justification

The Catholic Apologetics Academy turned out to be more enjoyable and educational than I had expected, and it was definitely a good opportunity for Catholics to meet and socialize with other similar-minded Catholics living in the Bay Area. I wish I had taken greater advantage of that opportunity. There were a few parents there who were aware of the state of Catholic schools in the diocese of San Jose. May they receive wisdom and strength as they seek to bring about change. The talks by Ken Hensley on sola fide and sola scriptura were very informative. He doesn't write much as he prefers teaching (live); his contrast between the two models of faith was one I had not heard before.

faith-->obedience-->blessing (a pattern found in the OT and repeated in the preaching of the NT) [the Catholic model]
faith-->blessing-->obedience [the Protestant model]

Metaphysics, the Middle Ages and the Birth of Protestantism - a review of Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation (via The Smith)

One might think that a committed Protestant would have a stake in showing that the Protestant Reformers were not determined in their teachings by their acceptance of bad medieval metaphysics, but I think that the claim in the critique that the metaphysical views of the Reformers were widely divergent (not all were followers of Ockham or Soctus) is something we should attend.

Someone writes in this controversy at FPR:

Also, the desire to embrace the continuation of the Jewish religion, rather than the negation, under Christ is being rediscovered in beautiful ways. This of course, dealing with God’s covenants, His people and what marks them out as His, etc. The heavy anti-semitism, most noticeably from the 4th century on by the church, has been linked to the Greek “trinity” of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on the Church’s approach rather than the Hebraic understanding. This is what is driving much scholarship today in the Reformed circles of Christianity. The idea of the “rediscovering” of historical context and the mindset of Judaism, the followers of this Judaic Messiah, and the sociological implications are creating much fruitful discussion. Again, this is extremely broad, but at least covers an overview of some of the main presuppositions.