Natural Law and Covenant Theology in New England, 1620-1670

Law and theology in the Covenant Code

The paper considers the relationship between law and theology within the Covenant Code. The first part o f the discussion reviews the influence o f the “divine law * hypotheses o f Alt and Noth, on contemporary scholarship. Particular reference is made to the consequences which Weinfeld draws from this hypothesis, fo r his view of the secularisation process in the Deuteronomic code. Subsequentl...

Toward a Covenant Theology of Science

This paper is born out of many years of thinking about the issues relating science and theology. I started out as an undergraduate, pondering such questions as those regarding the nature of physical law and the puzzle of why mathematics works in describing nature. Over the years of reflection, I have come to believe that if Christians are to take their faith seriously into the realm of science,...

Western New England Law Review

Pain and Surgery in England, circa 1620–circa 1740

The scholarship on the discussion and role of pain in early modern English surgery is limited. Scholars have given little consideration to how surgeons described and comprehended pain in their patients' bodies in early modern England, including how these understandings connected to notions of the humours, nerves and sex difference. This article focuses on the attention that surgeons paid to pai...

Natural Theology and the Qur’an

Natural theology is reading the book of nature, not the book of revelation, for knowledge of God. Natural theology, as a category employed by practitioners, originated within the history of Christianity, as passages from the New Testament such as Romans 1:20 raised the possibility of knowledge about God without revelation. The best-known work of natural theology is William Paley’s (d. 1805 AD) ...