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God's Command (Paperback)
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God's Command (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
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This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory
that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and
what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it.
Focusing on the Abrahamic faiths, eminent scholar John E. Hare
explains that two experiences have had to be integrated. The first
is that God tells us to do something, or not to do something. The
second is that we have to work out ourselves what to do and what
not to do. The difficulty has come in establishing the proper
relation between them. In Christian reflection on this, two main
traditions have emerged, divine command theory and natural law
theory. Hare successfully defends a version of divine command
theory, but also shows that there is considerable overlap with some
versions of natural law theory. He engages with a number of
Christian theologians, particularly Karl Barth, and extends into a
discussion of divine command within Judaism and Islam. The work
concludes by examining recent work in evolutionary psychology, and
argues that thinking of our moral obligations as produced by divine
command offers us some help in seeing how a moral conscience could
develop in a way that is evolutionarily stable.
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