Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things

Restating what all people intuit and what this means in moral, specifically bioethical, discourse is theraison d'être for this volume. J. Daryl Charles argues that a traditional metaphysics of natural law lies at the heart of the present reconstructive project, and that a revival in natural-law thinking is of the highest priority for the Christian community as we contend in, rather than abdicate, the public square.

Nowhere is this more on display than in the realm of bioethics, where the m...