Moral Arguments for God's Existence

David Baggett served as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Foundations of Ethics at Houston Christian University until he and his wife, Marybeth, recently enrolled to study at the University of Missouri School of Law. With Jerry Walls, he's the author of a tetralogy on the moral argument for God's existence (Oxford University Press), and most recently wrote Reasonable Moral Faith (Baker Academic) with William Lane Craig.John E. Hare is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, Emeritus. He has published numerous books and articles about the relation between morality and religion. Three of the books form a trilogy about the Trinity published by Oxford University Press, namely The Moral Gap (1996), God's Command (2015), and Unity and the Holy Spirit (2023).

• Part I. History of the Moral Argument(s) 1: David A. Horner: Aristotle and Augustine on God and Happiness: An Implicit Moral Argument Prior to Kant 2: Kyla Ebels-Duggan: The Right, the Good, and the Threat of Despair: (Kantian) Ethics and the Need for Hope in God 3: W. David Beck: Moral Arguments from John Henry Newman to Austin Farrer 4: Robert K. Garcia: Putting Us Back in the Dock: C. S. Lewis's Moral Argument as Praeparatio Evangelica 5: Stephen E. Parrish: The Moral Argument: Recent Developments Part II. Moral Realism and Its Challengers 6: Terence Cuneo: Moral Error Theory (and God) 7: David Baggett: Expressivism 8: Christian B Miller: Constructivism 9: Angus J. L. Menuge: Debunking Arguments: The Dialectical Situation 10: Paul Copan: The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument 11: John Rist: Moral Realism Part III. Moral Phenomena 12: Anne Jeffrey: Supernatural and Natural Goodness 13: Kevin Kinghorn: God Is Good (for Us) 14: John F Crosby: The Preciousness of Human Persons: In Dialogue with Raimond Gaita 15: C. Stephen Evans: The Benefits of Divine Command Theory: Its Links to Accountability and Forgiveness 16: R. Scott Smith: The Fact-Value Split, Nominalism, and Moral Knowledge 17: John E. Hare: Moral Faith Part IV. Theistic Ethics 18: Matthew Flannagan: Divine Command Theory 19: Janine Marie Idziak: Divine Will and Desire Theories 20: Linda Zagzebski: God as Supreme Exemplar 21: Francis J. Beckwith: God and the Natural Law Part V. Secular Ethics 22: J. P. Moreland: Platonized Naturalism: A Bromide for Disenchanted Naturalists 23: Daniel Bonevac: Naturalism and Its Counterfeits 24: Mark Linville: People, Things, and God Part VI. Finer-Grained Religious Accounts 25: Lenn Goodman: Kant's Moral Case for God 26: Adam Lloyd Johnson: Divine Love Theory: How the Trinity Best Explains Objective Moral Truth 27: Robin Collins and Joshua Rasmussen: The Greatest Story Ever Told: How Theism Predicts the Light of Christ