Political and Moral Implications on Human Institutions according to Natural Law Paradigm in Two Ancient Christian Texts

MIRANDA, LIDIA RAQUEL; LELL, HELGA MARÍA

Roda da Fortuna

Institut d' Estudis Medievals

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2012 vol. 1 p. 104 - 118

2014-7430

Esta revista se encuentra indizada en: Inter Classica, Samários. Org. Dialnet y DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) y posee circulación internacional Abstract: This work sets out to analyze the opposition between natural law and positive law that prevails as a relevant topic in several texts of Antiquity. It also intends to describe some of the implications that these paradigms have for human institutions, whether their effects are produced on political or moral issues. In order to do so, we will study two Christian texts of Antiquity. Firstly, we will examine the Epistle to the Romans to show Paul´s conception of the Hebraic law as a superseded instance, equivalent in this way to sin and evil. St. Paul pretends to establish a new law to abolish ethnical differences and unite all Christians under the faith in God´s law. Secondly, we will examine the homily De Paradiso by Ambrose of Milan to demonstrate the anthropological perspective that comes from the natural law as it is related with the history of salvation and the connection between the human soul and the Creator.