Christ Above Culture (*A Church of the Center)

INTRO:VI A. The Architectonic Type [Christ Above Culture]
Thomas's points on synthesis between natural and new law, this-worldly and other-worldly values, culture and gospel
          1. though divine law is in part a republication of natural law, there
          are in it some things which cannot be apprehended by reason
          2. no antithesis in discontinuity: values and imperatives of nature
          known through culture prepare for the reception of values and
          imperatives of the gospel, though they do not mediate them
          3. practical emphasis on natural law as there is a prepatory function
          (so at times confused with natural law type even though different)
          4. recognizes that two sets of values and imperatives do not lie on
          the same level: imperatives of the gospel do not atequately supply
          directives for the life of men in culture and those of nature don't
          suply adequate motivation or guidance for life of man in spiritual
          relation to God and fellow-man

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Go to: Christ AboveCulture | Introduction | Part I: The Church of the Center | Part II. The Synthesis of Christ and Culture | Part III. Synthesis in question |

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