Divine Motivation and Humanity by Jordan Wessling
Theists maintain that God created the world and acts within it. However, opinions divide regarding the motives that rest behind and systematically structure God's actions ad extra, especially those actions pertaining to humanity. The major paradigms differ as to whether God is principally motivated (i) by the goal of glorifying Himself, or (ii) by the demands of His own holiness, or (iii) in perfect conformity to moral norms, or (iv) by perfect love. The challenge of providing a theoretical framework for understanding God's fundamental motives vis- -vis creation constitutes the problem of divine motivation. This Element addresses this problem from a Christian perspective. It assesses leading divine motivational frameworks concerning God's engagement with humanity, and it defends one framework in particular: the Agapist Framework. According to this preferred framework, God's actions toward humans are fundamentally motivated by God's perfect love.-
Religious Trauma
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God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime
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The God of Eastern Orthodoxy
- God and End-of-Life Decision Making
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Divine Simplicity
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Problems of God in Descartes (Elements in the Problems of God)
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God and the Problem of Scepticism
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The Problem of God in Alvin Plantinga
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God and the Problem of Logic
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Modelling the Divine
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God and the Problem of Epistemic Defeaters
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God and Happiness
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The Problem of Divine Personality
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God and Political Theory
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Evolution and Christianity
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God, Religious Extremism and Violence
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The Problem of God in Jewish Thought
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God and Value Judgments
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The Problem of Animal Pain
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The Problem of Divine Action in the World
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C.S. Lewis and the Problem of God
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Divine Guidance
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Orthodoxy and Heresy
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God and the Problems of Love
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The Problem of God in David Hume
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Catholicism and the Problem of God
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The Trinity
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The Problem of God in Buddhism
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God and Non-Human Animals
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God and Technology
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Embodiment, Dependence, and God
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009669382 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009669389 |
| Title | Divine Motivation and Humanity |
| Author | Jordan Wessling |
| Series | Elements In The Problems Of God |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 75 |
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