This book guides students, pastors, and lay learners to consider and evaluate various ways of understanding God's involvement in the world, especially in relation to views on predestination and the extent of the atonement. Four different scholars present their positions in point-counterpoint style, and the editor's introduction.

Introduction /Dennis W. Jowers -- God causes all things / Paul Kjoss Helseth -- God directs all things / William Lane Craig -- God controls by liberating / Ron Highfield -- God limits his control / Gregory A. Boyd.