Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms: Brief Review Part II

Yesterday, I introduced this great addition to Reformed theological studies: David VanDrunen's Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).  Today, I'll briefly point out a few highlights of chapters 2-3. In chapter two, VanDrunen argues that "The doctrines of natural law and the two kingdoms in the Reformed tradition did not spring from …

Natural Law and Two Kingdoms in Reformed History

When I was in college, I had a class on "spiritual formation" that was basically a huge dose of medieval mysticism with just a touch of English puritanism.  (I've wondered since then if this teacher of mine knew what the English Puritans said about Rome!)  Since the class was de-forming my "spirituality" (I did NOT …