| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Elements in the problems of God |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Divine Guidance: Moral Attraction in Action -- Contents -- 1 Guides Galore -- Basic Guiding -- Which Guide, Whose God? -- Inquirers under Question -- God as Guiding Ruler -- Guiding toward Goodness -- From Guiding to Hiding -- Guiding for Family Provision -- 2 Guiding with a Vengeance -- Toward a Kingdom Family -- Seeking for Faith -- Guided Divine Conflict -- Conscience as Battleground -- Peril in Guidance -- Filial Possession and Futility -- 3 Guiding through Dissonance -- Dissonance from Goodness -- Integration from Dissonance -- Guiding through Evil -- Good and Bad Suffering -- God for Good Suffering -- Bounded Understanding -- Guiding for Theodicy Incarnate -- 4 Guided Cooperative Discernment -- Testing for a Guiding God -- Guiding toward Enemy Love -- Guidance beyond Public Theophany -- Gambit for Divine Guidance -- References |
| Summary |
"If God exists and is perfectly good, God tries to guide people. A twofold question then arises: How does God (try to) guide people, and to what end? Problems of divine guidance for humans, according to this Element, are real and serious, but they are manageable once we clarify the kind of God at issue. According to the Element''s main thesis, if God has a perfect moral character accompanied by certain redemptive purposes for humans, the puzzling nature of divine guidance for them need not preclude the reality of such guidance. It is, this Element contends, a live option for God to guide or lead humans toward goodness, even if the leading is not fully explainable by humans. The voluntary moral attraction of cooperative humans by divine goodness, we shall see, is central to divine guidance, and it can illuminate the kind of evidence to be expected from God"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Discernment (Christian theology)
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God (Christianity) -- Will
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Cognitive dissonance -- Religious aspects
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Presence of God
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Discernment (Christian theology)
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God (Christianity) -- Will.
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Presence of God.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022036482 |
| ISBN |
9781009269698 |
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1009269690 |
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