God and Cosmos

David Baggett is a professor of philosophy and apologetics in the graduate school of the School of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has written or edited about ten books, in such areas as philosophy and popular culture, apologetics, and ethics; and published several dozen articles in the philosophy of religion, epistemology, and theology. He is the executive editor of MoralApologetics.com, and his book Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality, co-written with Jerry Walls, won Christianity Today's 2012 Best Book in Apologetics.Jerry L. Walls is Professor of Philosophy and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books, including a trilogy on the afterlife.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Introduction to Part IChapter 1: Alone in the CosmosChapter 2: The Case for AbductionChapter 3: The Problem of Evil, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility Introduction to Part IIChapter 4: Moral ValueChapter 5: Moral ObligationsChapter 6: Moral KnowledgeChapter 7: Moral TransformationChapter 8: Moral Rationality Introduction to Part IIIChapter 9: A Moral ArgumentConclusion Index

"Baggett and Walls provide a veritable history of ethical philosophy as they develop and support their thesis. The number of scholars cited-ancient, enlightenment, and modern-is impressive "--CHOICE"This is the book I had hoped they would write after Good God. Their previous book was mostly constructing their own theory, but God and Cosmos engages in significant detail with much of the best recent work in non-theist ethical theory. It is characteristically punchy in style, but at the end movingly eloquent in defense of a theist foundation for the authority of morality. The section on moral knowledge is especially fine, and takes thesubject forward in an interesting way." --John E. Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale Divinity School"Baggett and Walls are to be commended for developing a very interesting and important line of reasoning that I hope they and others will continue to explore in the coming years." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews