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By the Laying on of Hands and by Prayer: An Analysis of Power in the Rite of Ordination [PDF]

, 1994
Stortz, Martha Ellen
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Genesis: Declaration of God\u27s Blessing - Chapter 2 from Abrahamic Blessing: A Missiological Narrative of Revival in Papua New Guinea

, 2014
Gallagher, Sarita
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Divine Command Theory

2023
A divine command theory of morality contends that actions are morally required if and only if and because God commands those actions. An action is morally permissible if and only if and because God permits that action. An action is morally wrong if and only if and because God prohibits that action.
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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 ...
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A Defensible Divine Command Theory

Noûs, 1983
The term 'The Divine Command Theory of Ethics' is similar to 'The Ontological Argument' in that there is no unique entity deserving of that title. Rather, there is a multiplicity of theories, each of which is appropriately taken to be a divine command theory. The strongest versions are, if not the finest, at least definist.
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A Jewish Modified Divine Command Theory

Journal of Religious Ethics, 2004
ABSTRACTWe claim that divine command metaethicists have not thought through the nature of the expression of divine love with sufficient rigor. We argue, against prior divine command theories, that the radical difference between God and the natural world means that grounding divine command in divine love can only ground a formal claim of the divine on ...
Martin Kavka, Randi Rashkover
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Divine Command Theory and Metaethics

Revista Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião, 2018
I will outline an application of metaethics to the debate about Euthyphro's dilemma and divine command theory (DCT). Metaethics elucidates how we should understand what are objective moral judgments and moral truths. I argue that the normative content of morality does not depend on God’s approval/command.
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Interpreting Kant's Theory of Divine Commands

Kantian Review, 2005
Kant rejected ‘theological morality’, insisting that no one, including God, can be the ‘author’ of the moral law because the moral law is a categorically necessary, non-positive law. Kant was also no religious enthusiast and clearly intended to rule out certain kinds of dependence of ethics on theology.
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The Psychopath Objection to Divine Command Theory

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2021
Abstract: Recently, Erik Wielenberg has developed a novel objection to divine command meta-ethics (DCM). The objection that DCM "has the implausible implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations and hence their evil acts, no matter how evil, are morally permissible". This article criticizes Wielenberg's argument.
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