Can We Be Good Without God?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
One of the things that distinguishes humankind from every other species on earth is that we have a moral dimension. A moral law seems to be programmed into our psychological “software” and our awareness of it is triggered by the conscience, a mysterious monitor that pokes its nose into every nook and cranny of our lives. Why should this be the case? Does our moral sense come from nature? Is it nothing more than a cultural phenomenon? Is personal preference the deciding factor? Have we any right to question another person’s moral choices? Are there consistent guidelines for deciding whether something is good or evil, right or wrong, just or unjust? Beyond these and other related questions lies an even greater one: Can we ever find a solid and coherent basis for morality unless our world view has God at the very centre of it? Getting the right answers may change your life.
Top Highlights
“Your world view influences everything you think, say or do, because it is what you assume to be true before you claim that anything else is true—and it is easy to see that this radically affects your view of ethics and morality.” (Page 5)
“Postmodernism spawns two closely related ideas, relativism and subjectivism” (Page 12)
“we can divide world views into three categories. Firstly” (Page 5)
“materialism (nature is all there is), existentialism” (Page 5)
“The person who denies moral absolutes has both feet firmly planted in mid-air” (Page 14)
- Title: Can We Be Good Without God?
- Author: John Blanchard
- Publisher: Evangelical Press
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Good and evil › Religious aspects--Christianity; Judgment › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780852346518, 0852346514
- Resource ID: LLS:CANWEBEGOODGOD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-09T22:41:49Z