The Will in Its Theological Relations

Does the sovereignty of God make us puppets? In The Will in Its Theological Relations, John Girardeau addresses human freedom and God’s decrees within a nineteenth-century debate over determinism. He expertly challenges Jonathan Edwards’s doctrine of the will and its tendency to identify certain foreknowledge with causal necessity. Introduced by Richard Muller, this clarifying restatement of the orthodox Reformed perspective on human bondage to sin will help Calvinists ably defend both God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “John Girardeau’s The Will in Its Theological Relations is a unique opportunity to listen to an ongoing conversation about one of theology’s more challenging questions―the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. The republication of Girardeau’s insightful work affords students of Scripture the privilege of learning more about how God foreordains whatsoever comes to pass and yet does not offer violence to the will of creatures. . . With Muller as an able guide, readers can greatly profit from this work, one worthy of careful study and meditation.” ―J. V. Fesko, Harriett Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi