Predestination A Guide for the Perplexed

includes index and biblioraphy

The promise of Predestination ............1 Some Questions About Predestination ................4 Many Predestinations .............11 1. Augustine on the Priority of Grace .............19 How Augustine came to Believe in Predestination ..........21 The Content of Augustine`s Doctrine of Predestination ..............26 Predestination and Human Agency .............35 Predestination Vs. Paganism ...............46 2. Anselm`s Libertarian Alternative .............51 Anselm on Predestination ..........56 Merits of Anselm`s Alternative.............60 The problem of Foreknowledge ............64 3. Destiny and Freedom in Aquinas ............67 Aquinas` Augustinian Theology of Grace ............68 Free will and Voluntary agency ..............71 Christ`s Exemplanary Freedom ............75 4. Luther and Calvin`s Divine Determinism .........83 Luther`s Polemical Context ............83 Luther on Foreknowledge and Determinism ..........87 Lutheran freedom beyond Choosing ...............91 Calvin`s Appropriation of Luther ...............99 5. Barth`s Hopeful Iniversalism ............111 The problem of Assurance ..................12 Christ the center .................114 Liberated to obey.............119 On judas`s Fall ..............128 6. Predestination : A moderate defence ................135 Hope in Predestination .........137 Predestination, Luck, and Control...........140 A problem of Libertarian Assurance .............148 The Scarcity of Libertarian Freedom ..............150 Election, Evil, and Hell............156