Squeezing God into Fitting-Response Theories of Value

What is the value of God? Recent work in the “axiology of theism” tends to approach this question from a Moorean angle: what would God (or God’s existence) contribute to the overall value of the world (see Kraay, 2018 for an introduction to such work)? A complete answer involves tallying up the discrete values and disvalues that God would contribute. God’s moral goodness, for one, would go in the value column; so too, God’s administration of justice in the fi nal account. I propose, however, a different approach to the question of God’s value: namely, that looking to the range of responses that are fitting or appropriate toward an object helps us to understand its value.