Love, Freedom, and Evil - Does Authentic Love Require Free Will by Williams, Thaddeus J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents 1. EVIL AND THE AUTONOMOUS HEART Rethinking Free Will as a Condition of Authentic Love

1.1 THE RELATIONAL FREE WILL DEFENSE

1.1.1 The Problems of Evil 1.1.2 Three Criteria of Theodicy 1.1.3 The Intransitivity Dimension 1.1.4 The Anthropological Dimension 1.1.5 The Relational Dimension An Overview

1.2 THE AXIOM OF LIBERTARIAN LOVE

1.2.1 Three Necessities 1.2.2 Three Freedoms 1.2.3 Necessity of the Heart 1.2.4 Teleology and Transcendence 1.2.5 Boyd’s Chip, Hanegraaff’s Cathy, Brümmer’s Doll

1.3 TRUE LOVE: Is Freedom from the Heart Indubitable or Dubious?

1.3.1 The Non-Indifference Condition of True Love 1.3.2 Leibniz’s Indifferent Queen 1.3.3 Edwards on Indifference and Love 1.3.4 Wiggins and Hasker on Contrastive Explanations 1.3.5 Contrastive Explanations and Love in Le Chambon

Summary and Conclusions

2. FREEDOM AND THE ENSLAVED HEART Depth Capacity and the Case for Libertarian Free Will

2.1 THE MORAL IMPERATIVE ARGUMENT: Does "Ought" Imply "Can"?

2.1.1 Depth Capacity 2.1.2 The Pelagian-Erasmian-Kantian-Finneyan Dictum 2.1.3 Johannine Perspectives on “Can” 2.1.4 Two Erasmian Strategies 2.1.5 Anthropological Optimism

2.2 THE GRIEVOUS RESISTANCE ARGUMENT: Does Divine Grief Imply Human Autonomy?

2.2.1 Resistance and Autonomy 2.2.2 A Divine Tension 2.2.3 An Exegesis of Acts 4:28 2.2.4 Gregory Boyd on a Predetermined Crucifixion 2.2.5 Solidarity and Stability in Suffering

2.3 THE RELATIONAL VISION ARGUMENT: Can One Guarantee Another's Love?

Summary and Conclusions

3. LOVE AND THE REFORMED HEART: The Scope of Divine Action in Human Love

3.1 FIVE MODELS OF DIVINE ACTION IN HUMAN LOVE

3.1.1 God and the Heart 3.1.2 Pelagius and Cassian on Divine Action 3.1.3 Arminius and Augustine on Divine Action 3.1.4 Divine Action in No Man’s Land 3.1.5 Observations on the Theological Landscape

3.2 HEART REFORMATION AND THE BIBLE

3.2.1 An Ancient Hebrew Tension 3.2.2 Divine Giving and Human Coming 3.2.3 Divine Unifying and Human Loving 3.2.4 Divine Raising and Human Remaining 3.2.5 The Tension Beyond John

3.3 THE PROBLEMS OF EVIL REVISITED

3.3.1 The Divine Contributor Objection 3.3.2 The Sparsity Objection 3.3.3 Prayers for Love Actualization 3.3.4 Equiprobability, Probabilistic, and Hybrid Models 3.3.5 Free Will and Concrete Evil

Summary and Conclusions

EPILOGUE: What a Difference One Word Makes BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX