Reforming the Law of Nature

Simon P. Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Christian Heritage College and the Director of the Millis Institute, in Brisbane, Queensland. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He researches the intersections between political ideas, law, and religion.

• IntroductionJohn Calvin’s Political NaturalismRichard Hooker’s Theistic NaturalismJohannes Althusius and Political Society as PactumThomas Hobbes: Reforming Nature, Profaning PoliticsJohn Locke on Conventional PoliticsConclusion

Simon P. Kennedy offers an intellectual contribution of exceptionally high merit. By offering a nuanced and historically well-grounded analysis, demonstrates convincingly how natural law thinking in the early modern period first coincided with and then became unmoored from Protestant thought. Reforming the Law of Nature should effect a fundamental change in the way in which we recount the history of European natural law theory.