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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. EVIL AND THE AUTONOMOUS HEART Rethinking Free Will as a Condition of Authentic Love; 2. FREEDOM AND THE ENSLAVED HEART Depth Capacity and the Case for Libertarian Free Will; 3. LOVE AND THE REFORMED HEART: The Scope of Divine Action in Human Love; EPILOGUE: What a Difference One Word Makes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.