RT Article
T1 In Search of Common Ground: How Can Eastern Orthodox Theology Develop a Natural Law Theory?
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 37
IS 2
SP 248
OP 263
A1 Mavropoulos, Angelos
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1887109153
AB While natural law theory plays an important role for Catholic moral theology, it is true that Orthodox ethics has not endeavoured to develop its own theory of natural law. This article demonstrates the existence of the concept of natural law in Eastern Orthodox theology and argues that the main reason for this neglect is Eastern Christianity's traditional focus on faith rather than reason. In addition, the author, based on biblical and patristic grounds, highlights the necessity for a balance between the two to be found and provides a way in which Orthodox moral theology could develop a natural law theory, should it ever feel the need to do so, by first redefining its relationship with the science of philosophy, after so many years of disregard.
K1 Natural Theology
K1 Philosophy
K1 Reason
K1 Orthodox Theology
K1 Christian Ethics
K1 Natural Law
DO 10.1177/09539468231206271