aligned the Protestant Reformers against natural law,4 figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin certainly affirmed it. Calvin, for example, associated natural law very closely with conscience and asserted that natural law is the standard for civil law.5 In the subsequent Reformed tradition, as in other Protestant traditions, natural law remained a staple of sound doctrine in the centuries that followed.6 Given this history, it may be rather surprising to find a significant degree of skepticism
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