God's own ethics : norms of divine agency and the argument from evil / Mark C. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Mark C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.

Anselm.

God (Christianity).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Norms of divine agency and the argument from evil

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Mark C. Murphy addresses the question of how God's ethics differs from human ethics. Murphy suggests that God is not subject to the moral norms to which we humans are subject. This has immediate implications for the argument from evil: we cannot assume that an absolutely perfect being is in any way bound to prevent the evils of this world.

Contents:

Part I. The ethics of an Anselmian being

Anselmianism about God

Is the Anselmian being loving?

Is the Anselmian being morally good?

The ethics of the Anselmian being I (promotion)

The ethics of the Anselmian being II (respect)

The argument from evil and the ethics of the Anselmian being

Part II. God's ethics

Worship-worthiness and allegiance-worthiness

The good of religion and contingent divine ethics

The argument from evil and God's contingent ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 10, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-251717-1

0-19-184004-1

0-19-251716-3