
Divine Motivation and Humanity
Cambridge University Press
Published on 19. June 2025
Book
Hardback
84 pages
978-1-009-66938-2 (ISBN)
Description
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-a-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.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-66938-2 (9781009669382)
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Jordan Wessling | Ross Parker
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1. The problem of divine motivation; 2. The glorificationist framework; 3. The holiness framework; 4. The morality framework; 5. The agapist framework; 6. The plausibility of the agapist framework; 7. Conclusion; References.