Divine guidance : moral attraction in action / Paul K. Moser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moser, Paul K., 1957- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the problems of God 2754-8724

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discernment (Christian theology).

God (Christianity)--Will.

God (Christianity).

Cognitive dissonance--Religious aspects.

Cognitive dissonance.

Presence of God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (66 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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 volume, are real and serious, but they are manageable once we clarify the kind of God at issue. According to the volume'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 volume 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 is central to divine guidance, and it can illuminate the kind of evidence to be expected from 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Sep 2022).

ISBN:

1-009-26968-2

1-009-26971-2

1-009-26969-0

OCLC:

1350689993