Reformed Natural Law

Ordained Servant

In the current Ordained Servant, edited by Gregory Reynolds there’s a succinct treatment of natural law by Dr. David Van Drunen. Van Drunen rightly points out that natural law, despite howls of protest over its novelty, is well-established in Reformed confessions:

one cannot extract natural law from the system of doctrine taught in the standards without fundamentally damaging the system itself. Natural law is integral to the historic Reformed system of doctrine. In light of all this, I believe that we who are confessional Presbyterians do not have an option about whether to affirm a robust doctrine of natural law as part of our system of doctrine.