PAUL COPAN Philosopher John Rist is right: there is “widely admitted to be a crisis in contemporary Western debate about ethical foundations.”1 It seems that, ultimately, the crisis is the result of approaching ethics without reference to God. When morality is severed from its theological roots, secular ethics cannot sustain itself—it withers and dies. I can only sketch out a brief defense of the connection between God and objective moral values (which I have
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