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The Center for Classical Theology exists to contemplate God and all things in relation to God by listening with humility to his word with the wisdom of the Great Tradition. The purpose of CCT is to create a renewed vision for systematic theology today in the spirit of faith seeking understanding.”

“ The purpose of CCT is to create a renewed vision for systematic theology today in the spirit of faith seeking understanding.”

“ NSCT does not rehearse modern approaches to theology but puts forward fresh studies that encourage evangelicals to retrieve the theological method and confessional commitments of the Great Tradition to advance systematic theology today. NSCT is devoted to a theological theology, one that constructs a cathedral adorned with systematic precision and transcendent beauty, integrating each doctrinal domain for the purpose of thinking God’s thoughts after him. Each volume models biblical reasoning, faith seeking understanding, and reformed catholicity.”

“ A breakthrough contribution, the following Reformed theologians will engage with Thomas Aquinas himself, demonstrate the many ways Protestant Scholastics critically appropriated Thomas Aquinas to defend orthodoxy, and explain why Thomas Aquinas can serve to renew the evangelical church today. ”

https://credomag.com/2022/06/the-center-for-classical-theology-publications/

“In the spirit of our Protestant forefathers, theologians unite in this issue of Credo, pushing aside chronological snobbery to ask, How can we benefit from Thomas?” https://credomag.com/2022/07/the-ne...n-protestants-learn-from-thomas-aquinas/

“ "But evil lust and sinful love obscure the light of natural law, and blind man, until he fails to perceive the guide- book in his heart and to follow the clear command of reason. Hence he must be restrained and repelled by external laws and material books, with the sword and by force. He must be reminded of his natural light and have his own heart revealed to him. Yet admonition does not avail; he does not see the light. Evil lust and sinful love blind him. With the sword and with political laws he must still be outwardly restrained from perpetrating actual crimes."[26]” https://www.elca.org/JLE/Articles/472

“ For albeit that all men have a certain natural knowledge implanted in their minds (Rom. ii. 14), whereby they naturally perceive that they ought to do unto others as they would have others do unto them (and this and other such opinions, which we call the natural law, are the foundation of human right and of all good works); yet notwithstanding man's reason is so corrupt and blind through the malice of the devil, that it understands not this knowledge wherewith it is born; or else, being admonished by the Word of God, it understands it, and yet (such is the power of Satan) knowingly neglects and contemns it.1” https://www.elca.org/jle/articles/316

it is not difficult to understand why Luther appears determined to avoid treating the civil righteousness promoted by natural law as a theological issue.