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Debunking Divine Command Theory
Religions, 2023 The divine command theory holds that morality finds its origin in God or that God is somehow closely connected to morality. Many people across the world hold a related, though different belief that Religious belief is required for proper moral behavior ...
Hans Van Eyghen
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A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory
Religions, 2023 This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Beyond Divine Command Theory: Moral realism in the Hebrew Bible [PDF]
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 Philosophical approaches to ancient Israelite religion are rare, as is metaethical reflection on the Hebrew Bible. Nevertheless, many biblical scholars and philosophers of religion tend to take it for granted that the biblical metaethical assumptions ...
Jaco W. Gericke
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AL‐GHAZĀLĪ'S DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2021 AbstractThis article reviews al‐Ghazālī's conception of Divine Command Theory (DCT) in light of contemporary philosophical developments. There are two well‐known objections against DCT. These include the problem of arbitrariness (PoA), which states that God randomly chose our moral framework for no reason given His capability to choose any moral ...
Shoaib Ahmed Malik
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Divine Command Theory Readings
, 2018 This chapter presents what is arguably the most influential and widespread Christian approach to herem texts: the appeal to divine command theory to account for their counterintuitive morality. The structure of the argument is simple and straightforward: since God only commands what is good, and since God commanded the annihilation of the Canaanites ...
Christian Hofreiter
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Divine Command Theory – a critical reflections [PDF]
Idei, 2018 The technological and cultural development of society brings urgent challenges of an interdisciplinary character that also exert an influence over the humanities. In the ethical discourse on current trends in moral reasoning, the metaethical theory known
Tibor Mahrik
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Criticism of the classical Divine Command Ethics : A comparative study of Wainwright's objection with the objections of Muslim rationalist theologians [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022 This article first explains the classical version of the Divine command ethics in both Christian and Islamic traditions, and then by pointing out its coherency, at least in appearance, with Divine sovereignty and absolute power, it tries to show why this
Mohsen Javadi
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Divine Command Theory and Moral Supervenience [PDF]
Philosophia Christi, 2016 Mark Murphy argues that the property identity version of divine command theory, coupled with the doctrine that God has freedom in commanding, violates the supervenience of the moral on the nonmoral.
McAllister, Blake
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Divine Command Theory in Early Franciscan Thought: A Response to the Autonomy Objection [PDF]
Studies in Christian Ethics, 2016 In recent years, many scholars have bemoaned the gradual demise of traditional virtue ethics, and its eventual replacement in the later Middle Ages by divine command theory.
Lydia Schumacher
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An Adamsian Theory of Moral Obligations but without Divine Commands [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Theological Voluntarism is the view according to which certain moral properties or statuses have to be explained in terms of God’s commands, will, or other voluntary states of God.
Seyyed Abbas Kazemi Oskooei
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