Natural law and religious freedom: the role of moral first things in grounding and protecting the first freedom

Every generation finds a new reason for the study of natural law.

Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges.

Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which religious freedom has pride of place.