Can you be good without God? Evangelicals and the Rise of Natural Ethics (video)

I gave a public lecture at Baylor University, exploring the ways the early evangelicals responded to the new legal culture of the eighteenth century and to the more naturalistic moral philosophy of the Enlightenment.

Description: Can you be good without God? It was in the 18th century that ethics began to separate from religion. Moral philosophy was in many ways looking for an Isaac Newton of the moral sciences, and there were many who thought that human nature and its problems and opportunities could be fully described on an empirical basis, rather than from the point of view of divine revelation.