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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...

core of the person, resulting in love without dehumanizing the lover? Or does God reach only the courtiers, leaving an untouched throne of executive human power from where divine contributions may be shunned? The compatibilist may gladly embrace Brümmer’s distinction between contributory and sufficient causation without embracing libertarian free will. Brümmer’s distinction leads to the libertarian conclusion only if we neglect the deeper distinction between thwartable contributory causation (Heart
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