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Unnatural Lawyering: John Finnis’s brief against traditional Catholic teaching on capital punishment

January 4, 2019 Dr. Edward Feser 58

John Finnis is a prominent Catholic law professor and chief apostle of the “new natural law theory” (NNLT) invented by the late Germain Grisez in the 1960s. At Public Discourse, Finnis and I have been […]