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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2007  
         
  Article:   PRESERVATION THROUGH MORAL CONDUCT.

Authors:  HANS SCHWARZ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In addition to natural events, there is another way in which the general providence of God is manifested. In natural processes, God''s continue creative activity is dominant, however, in the moral processes, God´s activity of creative conservation is the most important. In fact the first Christian community was rather reluctant to adopt the idea of natural law, which was prevalent among the Stoics. Origen was the first who paved the way toward receiving the idea of natural law when he identified the Christ-Logos with the rational structure of the world. For his part, Luther was convinced that God organized all the world, from the biggest events to the smallest detail. Nowadays, there is a tendency to consider the moral precepts that man respects as a result of biological facts that are already there, in less coagulated shapes, in the more evolved species of animals.  
         
     
         
         
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