God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil

by Mark C Murphy and Mark C. Murphy

Every version of the argument from evil requires a premise concerning God's motivation - about the actions that God is motivated to perform or the states of affairs that God is motivated to bring about. The typical source of this premise is a conviction that God is, obviously, morally perfect, where God's moral perfection consists in God's being motivated to act in accordance with the norms of morality by which both we and God are governed.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198796919
• ISBN13: 9780198796916
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"