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Questions about divine providence have preoccupied Christians for generations. Are people elected to salvation? For whom did Jesus die? This book introduces readers to four prevailing views on divine providence, with particular attention to the question of who Jesus died to save (the extent of the atonement) and if or how God determines who will be saved (predestination). But this book does not...

for a raise, with his mood, he’d tear my head off”; “If we sent the Third Army around the enemy’s right flank, we would prevail.” Clearly, life-and-death decisions are made daily on the basis of the presumed truth of counterfactual statements. Christian theologians have traditionally not disputed that God has knowledge of true counterfactuals and, hence, of the conditional future contingent events they describe. What theologians did dispute, however, was, so to speak, when God
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