Love, freedom and evil : does authentic love require free will? /

Love, freedom and evil : does authentic love require free will? /

The defining premise of the Relational Free Will Defense is the claim that authentic love requires free will. Many scholars, including Gregory Boyd and Vincent Brümmer, champion this claim. Best-selling books, such as Rob Bell's Love Wins , echo that love "cannot be forced, manipulated, or...

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Main Author: Thaddeus, J. Williams.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.

Series: Currents of Encounter 41.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Love > Religious aspects.
Free will and determinism > Religious aspects.
Good and evil > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: BD436 .T43 2011eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Relational Free Will Defense
  • The Axiom of Libertarian Love
  • True Love: Is Freedom from the Heart Indubitable or Dubious?
  • The Moral Imperative Argument: Does "Ought" Imply "Can"?
  • The Grievous Resistance Argument: Does Divine Grief Imply Human Autonomy?
  • The Relational Vision Argument: Can One Guarantee Another's Love?
  • Five Models of Divine Action in Human Love
  • Heart Reformation and the Bible
  • The Problems of Evil Revisited
  • What a Difference One Word Makes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.