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Do we owe God worship?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2018

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HUGH BURLING*
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St John's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1TP, UK
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Abstract

This article responds to recent arguments that worshipping God cannot be obligatory. It shows how a respect-based account of worship is compatible with the claim that only God is worthy of worship, and compatible with the view that worship is very different from attitudes we owe to creatures. Then, it develops a respect-based account in enough detail to show how our moral motivations to respect creatures generate an obligation to worship God. The upshot is an analysis of worship which can weather recent arguments that worshipping God is not morally motivated.

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Religious Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 487 - 502
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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