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Old 03-16-2008, 10:45 PM
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I have actually found St. Thomas' work on natural law to be quite sane, sensible, and corrective in many areas:

Eternal Law: Includes God's foreknowledge and creation of human events/contingencies. Largely inscrutable to man.

Natural Law: appropriation of rational creatures of the divine exemplar; inner apprehension of right.

Human Law: Constructed from natural law and conditioned/applied in historical circumstances. I have always wondered if this could parallel general equity.

New Law/Old Law: Figure it out on your own.

Interestingly, Thomas does allow in some degree the OT model to be a model for nations: On Kingship, 105, 1.
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