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The Uses of Power. The wise are sometimes called upon to make painful revisions, for the content of natural law may change with time and circumstance. Throughout the Middle Ages, the practice of lending money at interest (usury) was held to be against natural law because money was considered naturally
(5 of 10) unproductive. The wealth of the church was almost entirely in land, as Bertrand Russell points out, and landowners are borrowers rather than lenders. But when Protestantism arose, its support-especially that of Calvinism-came chiefly from the rich middle class, who were lenders rather than borrowers. Accordingly...
How does natural law apply to some of the larger practical issues of the day? An example is the use of force, which, says Murray, baffles Protestant morality. (The "Eastern seaboard liberal," he says, at once abhors and adores power, since in the matrix of American Protestant culture "power is...
The New Rationalism. What is the non-Catholic to make of natural law? The Founding Fathers certainly accepted the concept, in one form or another, much of it having reached them through the English common law out of the vast reservoir of Christian tradition. Murray thinks that the Bill of...
But the main source of natural law to the early republic was of course John Locke, whose version of it was radically different from the Catholic view. Where the Catholic theory sees society as equally given with the person, Locke regarded society merely as something for the convenience of the...