What motivates the use of 把 in Chinese? I find sentences with 把 intriguing. I wonder why the Chinese language developed this usage. I, wrongly, made the assumption all sentences that use 把 like this can be simply rearranged.

I have this sentence from my text book:

它把灵魂塑造看得和学问同等重要。

So if I rearrange:


它看灵魂塑造得和学问同等重要。 Not good I'm told.
它看灵魂塑造和学问得同等重要。 Also not good.
它看灵魂塑造和学问同等重要。 Also not good, not said this way.
在它看来，灵魂塑造和学问同等重要。 Acceptable.


What motivates the use of 把 in Chinese？
把 ([介] 1) means 将.  


  (1) 表示处理、处置的意思。(treating) 如：“把门关上”、“把脸洗净”。  
  
  (2) 表示致使、导致的意思。(leading) 如：“把他惹恼了”、“把你气哭了”、“把我急疯了”。


把 or 将 is used in front of the object when we move the object to the front of the verb.

它把“灵魂塑造”看得和“学问”同等重要。  

把...看得 = 视  

它视“灵魂塑造”和“学问”同等重要。(The verb is in front of the objects.)