Publisher's Synopsis
"Tracey Rowland asserts that "since it is christological, natural law cannot be understood apart from the spousal relationship of Christ with his Church", which means that both the Divine revelation of the New Testament and the supernatural virtue of Faith received at Baptism are necessary for anyone to understand the natural law: it cannot be understood by itself in the light of reason. To the contrary Pope Benedict XVI teaches that "Christianity has never proposed a revealed law to the State and to society, that is to say a juridical order derived from revelation. Instead, it has pointed to nature and reason as the true sources of law". There could not be a clearer refutation of what Rowland says. What the pope is saying is that natural law can be understood by itself in the light of human reason alone, without Divine revelation and without the supernatural virtue of Faith received in Baptism. To bring out the extent and implications
