Evangelical Natural Law and Neo-Calvinist Political Thought
Abstract
Abstract In this review essay, I engage with an important recent American statement of evangelical political thought indebted to an Augustinian reading of natural law, Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics , from the standpoint of neo-Calvinism, especially the political philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd. The essay welcomes the book as an innovative and constructive intervention in a fractured American polity, engaging especially with those parts that could facilitate a fruitful dialogue with relevant themes in Dooyeweerd’s thought.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Reformed Theology and Governance
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Political Theology and Sovereignty
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Philosophia Reformata
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 123–132
- Publication date
- 13 February 2026
- Language
- EN