Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine

by Peter J. Thuesen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199832390
• ISBN13: 9780199832392
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"