Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality (Biblia.com)

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This book aims to reinvigorate discussions of moral arguments for God's existence. To open this debate, Baggett and Walls argue that God's love and moral goodness are perfect, without defect, necessary, and recognizable. After integrating insights from the literature of both moral apologetics and theistic ethics, they defend theistic ethics against a variety of objections and, in so doing,...

of such an action.[6] Understood in this way, the first horn of the Dilemma suggests that God’s commands determine the nature of goodness, and God’s prohibitions determine what is bad. If God commands something, then it’s good, in virtue of his commanding it (and his prohibitions determine what’s bad in virtue of the prohibitions). To affirm this reply is to embrace “voluntarism” or the “pure will” theory of the good—a divine command theory of the good. The second horn of the Dilemma suggests that

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