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INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION # (Chapter 2: The Perception of…

- - - - Confucius (551-479 BC): attempts to restore order by respect for rites, filial piety as foundation and heart for social life. "Reciprocity as key...don't do to others..."
  - - - Thomas Hobbes: auctoritas, non veritas, facit legem
      - Emphasis on man's will, rather than on reason
      - Nature ceases to be a criterion for knowing the will of God.
      - Protestant Reformation and religious wars...(cuius regio, eius religio)
      - modern rationalism: "etsi Deus non daretur"
        
        Modern Rationalist model of natural law: 1) essentialist belief in an immutable and ahistorical human nature, or which reason can perfectly grasp the definition and essential properties: 2) putting in parenthesis the ideas of grace, sin, salvation 3) possibility to deduce a priori the precepts of the natural law, beginning from the definition of the essence of the human being 4) natural law extended to appear as a code of pre-made laws, .
- - - - The philosophical and theological goal of the Statement is to restate
        the doctrine of natural law in such a way as to clear up points which may
        obscure the hoped-for dialogue and to help it to advance. One of the aims
        of restatement is to enable non-Catholics to recognize natural law for
        what it is, as the truth about man, accessible to reason, rather than as a
        teaching of purely Catholic interest, accessible only by revelation. Another
        aim is to counsel the Church in her response to the confusions natural law which circulate outside her boundaries, especially in the secular
        world.
  - - - I think this language might startle African Christians, who would instantly
        recognize phrases like “identifying the allies of life” as euphemisms for the
        placation of good and evil spirits, both human and nonhuman, by means
        of witchcraft and necromancy.