
Author/Contributor(s): | Baggett, David ; Walls, Jerry L |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 03/01/2016 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
accounting for moral duties, intrinsic human value, moral knowledge, 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. This book thus provides a cogent moral argument for God's existence, one that is abductive, teleological, and cumulative.