tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post3694014557519090744..comments2024-02-26T19:22:15.069-06:00Comments on Lex Christianorum: Gratian and the Natural Law: Concordance and Discordance in the Natural Law, Part 2Andrew M. Greenwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-66696686868823190082010-05-17T09:43:12.916-05:002010-05-17T09:43:12.916-05:00I don't know if you are notified by the blog s...I don't know if you are notified by the blog software but I commented on your post on St. Isidore of Seville. What a tremendous post for information. Thanks. You are pointing out the transformation of the term and definition of the Natural Law. <br /><br />What a travesty. Things got buried in the transmission. And yes, Gratian mucks up the waters even further. This is all very enlightening.<br /><br />I divide knowledge between "Divine Revelation" and "The Natural Law". One must have clear parameters. I can also see some overlap. A type of overlap can be said to be this what Jesus Christ said, "No one can serve two masters". That I see is part of the Natural Law, implanted from the beginning. Jesus Christ is not so much creating a new law but expressing what has been from time immemorial. Loyalty is to one thing to the exclusion of another. Otherwise, it is nullified if it has more than one object. <br /><br />In another overlap, Plato intimates and other Greeks as well, that if there is a God, which they of the theophilus side do acknowledge, all duty belongs to God. Nature teaches that there is a God. So if Nature teaches a God, then, what Nature teaches is then the Natural Law. Furthermore, They did not use the word "love" but a more manly term "duty". Man's first duty, logically, is to God.<br /><br />So I can see Overlap. I would think that Nature and Divine Revelation teach the same thing. Confusion would follow that both have the same source. <br /><br />I see it as a requirement of the Mosaic law where evidence is proved using two witnesses. Divine Revelation and the Natural Law are two witnesses.<br /><br />I would think that there are One source, two methods of transmission. Wisdom is defined by "Knowledge of divine and human things and their causes". Wisdom incorporates both methods.WLindsayWheelernoreply@blogger.com