In recent decades, Protestant theologians have rightly restored Natural Law to its vaunted place in their ethical and theological lexicon. Among those legions to be credited with restoring it is David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary in California. Two of his earlier volumes in particular, Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms (2010) and Divine Covenants and Moral Order (2014), have charted a path for Reformed Protestants both to appreciate their own tradition of the Natural Law, and to return it more closely to its native Biblical idiom. Politics After Christendom constitutes a third volume in this project. After recovering the Reformed natural law tradition and grounding it in the Bible in those two earlier volumes, VanDrunen is now prepared to say something about its relevance to politics in the Post-Christian west.
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