Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine

Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices—the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential inv...