Hittinger, Russell

The First Grace : Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi SECTION ONE: REDISCOVERING THE NATURAL LAW One Natural Law and Catholic Moral Theology 3 Two Natural Law as "Law" 39 Three Natural Law in the Positive Laws 63 Four Authority to Render Judgment 93 SECTION TWO: NATURAL LAW AND THE POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD Five Natural Rights, Under-Specified Rights, and Bills of Rights 115 Six Private Uses of Lethal Force: The Case of Assisted Suicide 135 Seven The Supreme Court v. Religion 163 Eight A Crisis of Legitimacy (including a Response to Critics) 183 Nine Dignitatis Humanae, Religious Liberty, and Ecclesiastical Self-Government 215 Ten Technology and the Demise of Liberalism 243 Eleven Reasons for Civil Society 265 Notes 285 Index 325