Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Love, freedom and evil : does authentic love require free will? / Thaddeus J. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Currents of encounter ; v. 41.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9789401200585
  • 9401200580
  • 1283162296
  • 9781283162296
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Love. : Does Authentic Love Require Free Will?, Freedom, and Evil.DDC classification:
  • 128/.46 23
LOC classification:
  • BD436 .T43 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
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.
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
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)369419

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

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.

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

Print version record.