![]() There is a persistent controversy among scholars about the roots of the Latin word, religion. ![]() "Religion" is a notoriously difficult term to define. In what follows a rough attempt is made to chart the interpenetrating currents of religion and ethics. Religious people believe that they should be moral, and that this is pleasing to God, while they also must accept the absolute authority of revelation. The apparent independence and absolute character of both religious and moral claims poses a difficulty for religious people. For example, moral conscience demands us to reject any religion that commands cannibalism. Where the judgments of moral conscience are clear and firm, if there is conflict with a religious teaching, the moral conscience demands that the religious teaching be rejected. On the other hand, moral conscience makes its own absolute claims, independent of religion. ![]() If the dictates of religion and moral conscience coincide on various judgments, it would appear to be a happy coincidence, for where there is conflict, religion claims absolute authority. 1 These questions arise from the fact that both religion and ethics seem to have ascertain sort of autonomy or independence.īecause religion is established through divine revelation, it seems to some that moral considerations must be excluded from it. Various questions have been raised about the relationship between religion and ethics, and more specifically, about Islam and ethics, to which this article is a response. ![]()
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