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Is GK a son of Henri de Lubac Modernist-like that all is grace: [Chesterton] alludes to the idea that rights are Godgiven; elsewhere, he would say that he did not believe so much in natural rights as he did “in supernatural rights (and Jefferson certainly states them as supernatural)". This last quote from him is noteworthy, because he seems to use the word “nature” differently than would have the Scholastics: In that tradition, what was “natural” pertained to our status as rational creatures, while “supernatural” described that which came from grace. Yet Chesterton is using these in a more distinctly modern way, using “supernatural” to denote divine origins in contrast to “natural”. Chesterton is talking like a modern, not a medieval


https://staustinreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/StAR-July-August-2019_Fawcett.pdf

Finally, he alludes to the idea that rights are Godgiven; elsewhere, he would say that he did not believe so much in natural rights as he did “in supernatural rights (and Jefferson certainly states them as supernatural)". This last quote from him is noteworthy, because he seems to use the word “nature” differently than would have the Scholastics: In that tradition, what was “natural” pertained to our status as rational creatures, while “supernatural” described that which came from grace. Yet Chesterton is using these in a more distinctly modern way, using “supernatural” to denote divine origins in contrast to “natural”. Chesterton is talking like a modern, not a medieval

https://media.christendom.edu/1988/07/the-last-medieval-monarchy-chesterton-and-belloc-on-the-philosophic-import-of-the-american-experience/

Chesterton even remarked that Jefferson “certainly states that natural rights were supernatural.”

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