Natural Law, Liberalism and Christianity

Abstract

Classical liberalism arose at a time when Christian orthodoxy was still vibrant. 1 Liberalism and Christian orthodoxy, sharing a number of fundamental ideas about the nature of man and of interpersonal relations, presuppose the same moral ontology of natural law. The high tide of Christian orthodoxy and classical liberalism belongs to the era when natural law was the fundamental concept of all serious thought about the human world. Both classical liberalism and Christianity went into sharp decline from the later nineteenth century onward, and, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the concept of natural law was rap-

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