Abstract :
Within the domain of theological ethics as this has been understood within the Christian tradition, there have been two main accounts of the basis of morality. We can call them natural law theory and divine command theory, though the labels are to some extent misleading. Two very similar alternatives can be found within the theological understanding of ethics within Judaism and Islam. Outside the Abrahamic faiths the notion of divine command gets less salient. In Plato and Aristotle, for example, there is nothing like a divine command theory.
