Table of Contents

Preface
1: Morality and Religion
2: What is a Divine Command?
3: Eudaimonism
4: Can We Deduce Morality from Human Nature?
5: Barth on Divine Command
6: Divine Command in Some Medieval Islamic Thinkers
7: Divine Command in Some Recent Jewish Thinkers
8: Divine Command and Evolutionary Psychology
9: Summary
Bibliography

About the Author

John E. Hare received his BA from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He then taught at
Lehigh University, with a couple of years on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC.
He then taught at Calvin College, and went to Yale in 2003, where he teaches in the Divinity School, the
Philosophy Department, the Religious Studies Department, and the Classics Department. He has written six
books, including The Moral Gap (OUP 1997) and God and Morality (Wiley-Blackwell 2009).

Reviews

The book is incredibly rich in scope and ambition, canvassing just about every major philosophical issue that arises in connection with divine commands. In the process Hare discusses a dizzying array of thinkers who have reflected on relevant issues, critiquing many of them with insights both trenchant and penetrating. The net effect is an impressive and comprehensive articulation and defense of divine command theory.
*David Baggett, Liberty University*

God's Command is an outstanding defence of a version of divine command theory. ... the book is a major contribution to the discussions of divine command in both philosophical and theological ethics.
*Mustafa Çakmak, Studies in Christian Ethics*