God Saves: Rethinking Christianity's Most Controversial Doctrine-and Why It Matters

God Saves is an argument for rediscovering one of Christianity's most ancient, potent, and liberating teachings, albeit one frequently maligned and misunderstood. In some circles, it's called the doctrine of predestination; in others, the doctrine of election. The time has come to reconsider it in the light of Christian scripture, and so to recast and reclaim it anew for the twenty-first century.

At the heart of the doctrine is the idea of being "elected" or "chosen" by God for salvation, wh...