First Things RSS Feed - William Werpehowski https://www.firstthings.com/author/william-werpehowski en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:39 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/william-werpehowski 60 Divine Authority https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/11/divine-authority https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/11/divine-authority Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0400 Divine command theory is hardly in fashion among ethicists these days. Secular scholars tend toward utilitarianism, the defense of human rights, or accounts of the social contract. Others may share with religious ethicists an interest in advancing an ethic based in natural law or the virtues or both. So it is intriguing and even bold for C. Stephen Evans to have written God and Moral Obligation , “a sustained argument,” as the author puts it, “that God does provide the best explanation for why there are moral obligations.”

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