Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Gospel, Grace, and Natural Law (and Marriage)
Joe Knippenberg notes evangelicals' support for (MoJer) Rober George's conclusions regarding marriage, but their discomfort with how he gets there. Albert Mohler writes:
[A]t the end of the day, I am not very hopeful that a society hell bent on moral revolution is going to be held in check by our arguments by the moral law, the natural law. I’m thankful, however, that Robert P. George is making those arguments. I’m thankful that he’s making them better than just about anyone else is making them. And as an evangelical, we have every reason to use natural law arguments, we just don’t believe that in the end they’re going to be enough. That’s where we have to come back with the final issue always being the gospel.
Knippenberg asks, "how much of a difference is there in the end between the natural law of someone like Robert George and the reliance on Gospel and grace of someone like Albert Mohler?" I don't want to speak for Robby, and I'm leery of venturing into theological waters that are over my head, but I'm pretty sure that he would not reject "reliance on Gospel and grace," though he might be more optimistic about reason's capacity to function as a sign of God's grace, even among those who have not embraced the Gospel.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/03/the-gospel-grace-and-natural-law-and-marriage.html
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"...though he might be more optimistic about reason's capacity to function as a sign of God's grace, even among those who have not embraced the Gospel."
In modern, western nations, I see no way for religious people to evangelize or communicate important political/social/cultural messages among an educated populace without at least being able to speak the language of reason/philosophy/intuition on some level.