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God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil is unavailable, but you can change that!

Must we be free to truly love? Evil is a problem for all Christians. When responding to objections that both evil and God can exist, many resort to a “free will defense,” where God is not the creator of evil but of human freedom, by which evil is possible. This response is so pervasive that it is just as often assumed as it is defended. But is this answer biblically and philosophically...

granted such privileged epistemic status in the citadels of contemporary Christian thought? Church history has had its share of detractors who view libertarian free will as hazardous to the Christian faith. In 1757, the philosopher, theologian, and pastor, Jonathan Edwards, wrote in a letter: I think the notion of liberty, consisting in a contingent self determination of the will, as necessary to morality of men’s dispositions and actions almost inconceivably pernicious.… Notions of this
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