Breakin' the Law
Divine Law
In addition to Nature, there are laws and principles set down by God and that pertain specifically to Christians; there's any society, then there's Christian society
This was a major step. Heretofore, law belonged to you only in your membership in a natio, a people, but Christian law applied to all nations, so long as they called themselves Christian nations. God set forth certain laws and principles to see to the governance of human beings, who cannot govern themselves
This entered into society at two points. The most obvious one is canon law; that is, where an ecclesiastical court had specific jurisdiction. Marriage, blasphemy, heresy, obedience to bishops and abbots, all these were within the purview of canon law. This was developed within the Church over the centuries and was, as it were, the manifestation of divine law in human affairs.
Divine law also entered in at the theoretical level, as a supplement or complement to natural law. Specifically, natural law governed the behavior of all living creatures, but divine law was specific to the human experience. It was axiomatic that natural law and divine law could not be in conflict.