every other aspect of culture. It is little wonder that natural law can evoke such strong feelings—whether positive or negative—from thoughtful people. Another part of the answer, however, is that over the past couple of centuries the idea of natural law has faced a greater degree of skepticism and outright denial than perhaps at any other time in the last two thousand years of Western history. Interestingly, both Christians and non-Christians have critiqued natural law theory, though not for all