Article: Divine Command Theory
May 17, 2011
Sources & reading
Robert Merrihew Adams Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (2002: New York, Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-515371-5Paul Helm [ed.] Divine Commands and Morality (1981: Oxford, Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-875049-8
Brad Hooker “Cudworth and Quinn” (Analysis 61, 2001)
Philip L. Quinn “Divine command theory” (in Hugh LaFollette [ed.] The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory)
Michael Shermer Why People Believe Weird Things (2005: Henry Hold & Company, Inc.) ISBN 0-8050-7769-3
Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann “Being and goodness” – in Thomas V. Morris [ed.] Divine & Human Action (1988: Ithaca, Cornell University Press) ISBN 0-8014-9517-2
R.G. Swinburne The Coherence of Theism (1977: Oxford, Clarendon Press) ISBN 0-19-824410-X (chapter 11)
C. Stephen Evans Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (2004: Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-927217-4
External links
God and Morality – a defence of the Divine Command theory.
Moral Argument and Divine Command Theory – links to relevant on-line resources from Internet Infidels
Morality & Religion I – dialogue by Peter J. King (a PDF file)
Theological Voluntarism Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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