ABSTRACT
This interlude for theology will necessarily be a very brief and schematic treatment of a very complex subject. I shall ignore as far as possible the formidable questions of religious knowledge, such as the question whether, and how, we can know that there is a God; but I shall not be able to avoid altogether one question about religious knowledge: given that God does require certain things of us, how can we know what they are? My main question will be this. Given that it is the will of some God – and for the sake of argument let it be the God of the Christians, Jews and Moslems – that we should behave in certain roughly specifiable ways: what reasons, if any, could we have for behaving in those ways, reasons which we would not have if we did not believe that God had willed them?
