Karen Taliaferro is assistant professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. Her forthcoming book is titled The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths.
Only natural law stands "between gods and men." It employs human reason and observation, yet it admits of a divine creator behind nature - and therefore something inherently normative about naturally given ends. Without this intermediary, neither conflicts between divine law and human law nor conflicts between different religions can end in anything other than continuous conflict.
Date posted: 2019-08-27