Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2010

Abstract

Those who ignore Luther’s critical agility in moral reasoning based on natural law in favor of a reactionary turn to a regime of biblical law create “misery and tribulation,” as Luther lamented, and seriously enfeeble the Christian faith for life today. Christians rightly use their God-given powers of reason to work out affairs in the present order.

Publication Title

Word & World

ISSN

0275-5270

Publisher

Luther Seminary

Volume

30

Issue

4

First Page

419

Last Page

428

Published Citation

Simpson, Gary M. “‘Written on Their Hearts’: Thinking with Luther about Scripture, Natural Law, and the Moral Life.” Word & World 30, no. 4 (September 2010): 419–28.

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