For nearly 2,000 years, God had seemed remote and withdrawn from humanity. Dwelling in the heavens, He rarely conversed directly with people. As humanity fell into moral decline, He responded with ...

The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically ...

Moral evil, the wrongful behaviour of human beings, is easier for religious people to understand, because of the idea of free will. Therefore, it can be argued that God gave everyone free will so ...