Skip to main content

On Gratitude and the Fifth Commandment

March 8th, 2017 | 9 min read

By E. J. Hutchinson

We are pleased to publish this guest feature from Dr. Eric Hutchinson of Hillsdale College.

In my first two posts, we’ve seen what the classical two-kingdoms distinction was for the sixteenth century Reformers, whether “Lutheran” or “Reformed,” and also the way in which the Ten Commandments functioned in Protestant ethical reasoning, viz., as a sum of the moral law, which is equivalent in substance and principle to the natural law and which therefore applies to all people at all times.

Login to read more

Sign in or create a free account to access Subscriber-only content. 

Sign in

Register

E. J. Hutchinson

E.J. Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College, where he also directs the Collegiate Scholars Program. He is the editor and translator of Niels Hemmingsen’s On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method.