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The grounds of worship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2006

TIM BAYNE  and
YUJIN NAGASAWA
TIM BAYNE
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
YUJIN NAGASAWA
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT CAPPE, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Abstract

Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each is problematic. We conclude by examining the implications of this result, and suggest that it might be taken to provide an argument against God's existence, since theists generally regard it is a necessary truth that we ought to worship God.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 299 - 313
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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