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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...

that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty (David Kirschner Productions, 2002), Bruce Almighty (Universal, 2003), and The Adjustment Bureau (Universal, 2011). Is this pervasive claim of the Relational Free Will Defense philosophically credible? Does it stray from biblical insights into the nature of love, freedom, and evil? Does the claim that love requires free will clash with a robust relational response to evil in its concrete (rather
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