IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICE (IJRCP )

E-ISSN 2579-0501
P-ISSN 2695-219X
VOL. 9 NO. 4 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijrcp.v9.no4.2024.pg66.73

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The Interception of Divine Will and Moral Philosophy: A Critical Examination

Anselm Ikenna Odo

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Abstract

AThis focus paper seeks to articulate the dual challenges of divine will and moral philosophy and the inherent struggle to identify their respective spaces within the methodology. She further elaborates on how this Catholic conception of divine will was challenged and shunned in modernity, especially in the context of philosophical theories of free will, and theories of ethics including Divine Command Theory and Natural Law Theory perhaps in her desperate attempt to find solutions to this confusion. The paper ends with considering suitable paradigms that provide boundaries to the debate in relation to human agency, moral accountability, and belief in the divine

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