Title God and cosmos : moral truth and human meaning / David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource Series UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books Contents Alone in the cosmos -- The case for abduction -- The problem of evil, freedom, and moral responsibility -- Moral value -- Moral obligations -- Moral knowledge -- Moral transformation -- Moral rationality -- A moral argument Summary 'God and Cosmos' provides a four-fold moral argument for God's existence that is cumulative, abductive, and teleological Naturalistic ethics is the reigning paradigm among contemporary ethicists; in God and Cosmos, Baggett and Walls argue that this approach is seriously flawed. This book canvasses a broad array of secular and naturalistic ethical theories in an effort to test their adequacy in accounting for moral duties, intrinsic human value, prospects for radical moral transformation, and the rationality of morality. In each case, the authors argue, although various secular accounts provide real insights and indeed share common ground with theistic ethics, the resources of classical theism and orthodox Christianity provide the better explanation of the moral realities under consideration. Among such realities is the fundamental insight behind the problem of evil, namely, that the world is not as it should be. Baggett and Walls argue that God and the world, taken together, exhibit superior explanatory scope and power for morality classically construed, without the need to water down the categories of morality, the import of human value, the prescriptive strength of moral obligations, or the deliverances of the logic, language, and phenomenology of moral experience. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 18, 2015) Subject Religion and ethics. Ethics. God. Religious ethics. ethics (philosophy) religious ethics. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. RELIGION -- Ethics. Ethics God Religion and ethics Religious ethics Ethik Religion Form Electronic book Author Walls, Jerry L., author. ISBN 9780199931200 0199931208 9780190464165 019046416X

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