Natural Law ?

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Mayflower

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Has anyone study the view of natural law ?

Any thoughts ?

Are those whom hold to the natural law hold to a theocracy or not ?
Are those whom hold to natural law more towards a liberal view ?

I read somewhere that Hugo Grotius was holding to Natural law, but iam not sure what his view was on politics and theocracy ?

Any information ?
 
The question may be slightly too broad; but, in general, the orthodox have held that the "natural law" is the same as that law summarized in the Decalogue. It is God's natural, moral law, and also was written on the heart of man at creation.
 
Note the distinctions that developed over time. For Aquinas and the medievals, natural law participated in the divine. For Grotius, God may not exist but natural law does.

Natural law got secularized in the Enlightenment. (and I hold to it so don't get too excited).
 
I thought that natural law is the set of moral values from God that is known apart from special revelation. It is supposed to be identical with the moral values as stated in Scripture. Is this correct?
 
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