Divine Guidance - Moral Attraction in Action

"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"--

List of contents

1. Guides Galore; 2. Guiding with a Vengeance; 3. Guiding through Dissonance; 4. Guided Cooperative Discernment; References.

Summary

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students who inquire about divine guidance from a philosophical, theological, or historical perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Paul K Moser, Paul K. Moser, Paul K. (Loyola University Moser, Paul K. (Loyola University Chicago) Moser
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781009269704
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926970-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Problems of God; Elements in the Problems of Go
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Philosophy, Christianity, History of Religion, Philosophy of religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis