Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-391) and index.
New natural law in context -- Criteria for evaluating new natural law -- The architecture and reach of new natural law -- Internal consistency (1): is new natural law secular? -- Internal consistency (2): new natural law and Thomas Aquinas -- Substantive appeal (1): what's wrong with homophobia and sexism? -- Substantive appeal (2): new natural law, sexism, and homophobia -- Moral absolutes and the possible fundamentalism of new natural law -- New natural law and patriarchal religion -- Concluding observations, and Christian alternatives to new natural law