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Assignment: Christian Conception of Natural Law Research Paper
Length: 20 pages.
Research Paper Topic: Is the Christian conception of Natural Law indispensable to a coherent moral theory of the State?
In your paper, be sure to mention all the Natural Law thinkers examined in the course and include the many Natural Law concepts contained in their theories: justice, citizenship, statesmanship, covenant, Christian kingship, democracy, the interaction between religious and civil offices, and positive law/public policy formation.
Include a concluding section entitled Public Policy Applications that relates the lessons of the Natural Law thinkers in the course to three public policy areas of your choice: one must be moral; one must be economic; and one can be any other area of public policy of interest to you.
1. The Social Contract and Discourses 1761 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.) 1689 - John Locke
3. Leviathan (1909 ed) 1651 - Thomas Hobbes
4. God's Bridle: John Calvin's Application of Natural Law on JSTOR
5. The Context of Natural Law: John Calvin's Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms
6. The Institutes of the Christian Religion 1537 - John Calvin
7. The Works of Richard Hooker, vol. 1 1888 - Richard Hooker
8. Luther-Secular-Authority-To-What-Extent-It-Should-Be-Obeyed. (lolonline org)
1. ST.I-II.Q90 - Aquinas
2. Thomas Aquinas: De Regno: English (isidore.co)
3. The Philosophy of Law of St. Augustine on JSTOR
4. ProQuest Ebook Central - Book Details
5. On Moral Duties (De Officiis) -44 - Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. Treatise on the Laws -51 - Marcus Tullius Cicero
7. Dialogues, vol. 5 - Laws, Index to the Writings of Plato 1892 - Plato
8. Dialogues, vol. 4 - Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus 1892 - Plato
9. Dialogues, vol. 3 - Republic, Timaeus, Critias 1892 - Plato