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Here is a concise and informative guide to the history of Christian theology. This condensation of Roger Olson’s widely acclaimed The Story of Christian Theology surveys the events, teachings, and challenges to the Christian faith down through the ages. In five acts, we are ushered from the second to the twenty-first century, following all the twists and turns, wrinkles, and rivalries that lay...

of election and predestination of some Reformed theologians. Arminius did not deny the doctrine of election, but he insisted that it be understood as divine foreknowledge of what individuals would freely do with the liberty given them. God knows in advance who will believe and who will not believe. As Paul says in Romans 8:29, “Those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family” (NRSV). The doctrine of
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