Love, freedom and evil : does authentic love require free will? / Thaddeus J. Williams.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Series: | Currents of encounter ;
v. 41. |
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401200585 9401200580 1283162296 9781283162296 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |