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
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:	Currents of encounter ; v. 41.
Subjects:	Love > Religious aspects. Free will and determinism > Religious aspects. Good and evil > Religious aspects. Courtship. Love > Freedom. Love. PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism. Electronic books.
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Summary:	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 coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide." The claim that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty, Bruce Almighty, and The Adjustment Bureau .The analysis shows convincingly that the claim that authentic love requires free will, does.
Item Description:	Description based on print version record. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (203 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-198) and index.
ISBN:	9789401200585 (electronic bk.) 9401200580 (electronic bk.)