necessarily imply free-will theism, because it is too high a price to pay in what it means for the doctrine of God. But having rejected libertarian freedom, where can we go in the reconciliation task? We are driven to consider the notion of compatibilist free-will which does appear to be internally consistent and exegetically possible in that it can hold to an orthodox definition of sovereignty and can speak of free agency. However for many (especially exlibertarians), such an account of freedom