God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality. By Mark C. Murphy
Christian ethics remains divided between (largely Catholic) natural law exponents and (largely Protestant) divine command exponents. Christian ethics based upon natural law has been particularly successful in allowing its exponents to work closely with secular ethicists as long as both sides avoid c...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 811-813 |
| Review of: | God and moral law (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Gill, Robin)
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| Summary: | Christian ethics remains divided between (largely Catholic) natural law exponents and (largely Protestant) divine command exponents. Christian ethics based upon natural law has been particularly successful in allowing its exponents to work closely with secular ethicists as long as both sides avoid confrontations about meta-ethics. Both can debate on the basis of what can be known through the use of reason as long as they beg to differ on additional points known only through revelation. Yet there are obvious weaknesses to natural law ethics, not least the difficulty of agreeing about what is ‘natural’ (with clear differences evident even among Catholic ethicists). Many non-theistic ethicists are also sceptical about deriving normative judgements from nature in any form. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls091 |