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Enabling Ivan Karamazov: responding to Mark Murphy's God's Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Agency and the Argument from Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2017

KRISTEN IRWIN
KRISTEN IRWIN*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60613, USA
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e-mail: kirwin@luc.edu
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Abstract

God's Own Ethics introduces a number of philosophical subfields into conversation with philosophy of religion and metaethics in an attempt to discern the ethics of God. While its conception of the divine being is itself controversial, I here take issue with the claim that the divine being described in God's Own Ethics would be one worthy of worship and allegiance. Specifically, I argue that a God lacking in moral perfection of the sort familiar to humans is either unrecognizable as God, or is open to the ‘Ivan Karamazov’ objection that such a God deserves neither worship nor allegiance.

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Religious Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 557 - 563
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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