Largely due to the works of St. Augustine (354-430) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), natural law became viewed as the "will of God" (Rosenblatt).

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St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas were instrumental in developing the concept of natural law, integrating it with Christian theology, and presenting it as reflecting the will of God. Augustine's writings laid early groundwork, emphasizing the order and reason inherent in the world as reflective of divine will. Aquinas further elaborated on this, systematically incorporating Aristotelian philosophy to argue that natural law is a manifestation of God's eternal law accessible to human reason.

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