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But What about God’s Wrath?: The Compelling Love Story of Divine Anger is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can a loving God also be a God of wrath? God’s wrath stands out in the minds of many as the single most puzzling aspect of God’s character. Often Christians who would like to reconcile divine love with divine wrath—while remaining faithful to the Bible—can’t figure out how to do so. Kevin Kinghorn and Stephen Travis offer a way forward. Using a philosophically informed line of argument and...

God’s actions, including acts we associate with wrath, will of course be intentional, or purposeful, actions. As such, they are fully explained only by spelling out the reasons God has in acting—that is, by spelling out the ultimate goal (or goals) God intends to bring about through the action in question. Any analysis of divine wrath will need to identify the reasons, the goals, God has for acting in wrath. Of course, it is not merely one action for which we will be seeking an explanation. The idea
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