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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 not meet the criteria of consistency, compatibility with Scriptural sources, and the demands of concrete encounter with problems of moral evil.
Contents
Evil and the Autonomous Heart. Rethinking Free Will as a Condition of Authentic Love
The Relational Free Will Defense
The Axiom of Libertarian Love
True Love: Is Freedom from the Heart Indubitable or Dubious?
Freedom and the Enslaved Heart. Depth Capacity and the Case for Libertarian Free Will
The Moral Imperative Argument: Does Ought Imply Can?
The Grievous Resistance Argument: Does Divine Grief Imply Human Autonomy?
The Relational Vision Argument: Can One Guarantee Another's Love?
Love and the Reformed Heart: The Scope of Divine Action in Human Love
Five Models of Divine Action in Human Love
Heart Reformation and the Bible
The Problems of Evil Revisited
Epilogue. What a Difference One Word Makes
Bibliography
Index
