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.
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