Reforming the Law of Nature

Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and conceptions of the origins of politics Reforming the Law of Nature is a stimulating study of the development of natural law ideas in the early modern period. The book brings sixteenth and seventeenth century jurisprudence, theology and political philosophy into conversation with one another to explore the ways in which developments in political thought in the Reformed Protestant tradition affected the emergence of a secular understanding of political life. Simon P. Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Christian Heritage College and the Director of the Millis Institute, in Brisbane, Queensland. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland.