Second, we might complain with reason that Natural Law is the product of classical theism rather than a biblical theology. It serves an ontology of God that is Greek, not Christian. The criticism of natural theology, that it leads to an abstract concept and not to a personal God here also applies. Barth rightly asks:
What has that metaphysics of being to do with the God who is the basis and Lord of the Church?
He goes on:
This [Christian] God is replaced by the divine image of being, the god-concept of ancient philosophy.
At the heart of Aquinas’ doctrine there is an analogia entis - thus the “Eternal” and “Natural” laws. Human beings are “co-ordinated” to God (Barth’s term) by this (pagan) metaphysical analogy, over against the humanity of Christ. Brunner
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