ABSTRACT

How do various concepts of God impact the moral life? Is God ultimately required for goodness? In this edited collection, an international panel of contemporary philosophers and theologians offer new avenues of exploration from a theist perspective for these important questions.

The book features several approaches to address these questions. Common themes include philosophical and theological conceptions of God with reference to human morality, particular Trinitarian accounts of God and the resultant ethical implications, and how communities are shaped, promoted, and transformed by accounts of God.

Bringing together philosophical and theological insights on the relationship between God and our moral lives, this book will be of keen interest to scholars of the philosophy of religion, particularly those looking at ethics, social justice and morality.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

God and the moral life

chapter 3|15 pages

God and the human good

chapter 4|18 pages

Ethical reflection on ‘God’

Making sense of things

chapter 5|13 pages

Emptying God

The ethics of theology in Merleau-Ponty’s work 1

chapter 8|22 pages

God as infinite

Ethical implications

chapter 9|14 pages

Plumblines in the vastness

Measures without measure

chapter 10|14 pages

Mascot or judge

God and the mores of church and society