Three Views on ElectionTable of ContentsElection Overview 3Conditional Election 4Overview 4Conditional Election and Fatalism 4Conditional Election and Semi-Pelagianism 5James Arminius and John Wesley 6Unconditional Election 8Overview 8Double Unconditional Election 8Gottschalk of Orbais 8Ulrich Zwingli 9Martin Luther 9John Calvin 10Single and Unconditional Election 10Augustine 10Thomas Aquinas 12Conclusion 13Election OverviewGregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy, in their book Across the Spectrum, present a scenario: “While he was driving drunk, a person hits and kills a little girl. A Christian friend of the girl's parents tries to comfort them by reassuring them that "God is in control" and that, one way or another, "all things work together for good." The mother is comforted by these words, but the father becomes furious. If God is behind my little girl's death, he insists, he is not all loving and all good. Any God who would deliberately take the life of our little girl and leave us in this nightmare is cruel!' A second family friend agrees with the father and insists that God did not cause this tragedy. “The drunk driver is solely responsible for the tragic death of your little girl,” he told the father. “God is as saddened by this event as you are. Now he just wants to comfort you both. »1 “As we approach this discussion, we must ask ourselves: How does our interpretation of God's sovereignty and man's free will influence our ability to counsel, encourage, and teach the lost? and to the injured? Is friend one in the example above correct, or is it friend two? If it is the first friend, then how to deal with God controlling tragic events (or refusal to intervene), such as reckless and seemingly... middle of paper ...... ook III) ." CHURCH FATHERS: De Principiis, Book III (Origen). http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04123.htm (accessed May 1, 2014). Read about 5p (it was online) Stephens, WP . Zwingli. Oxford: Clarendon Press;, 1986. Read 2pThe “Summa theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas London: Burns, Oates & Washburne, Ltd., 1916. Read 6pWesley, John Free Grace, a sermon preached in Bristol. : Bristol, printed Philadelphia, reprinted by Ben Franklin:, 1741. Read 2pWesley, John Calmly Considered by John Wesley, MA London: Printed by J. Paramore: and sold at the New Chapel and in the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preachers; in Town and Country, 1786. Read 5pZwingli, Ulrich, Samuel Macauley Jackson and Clarence Nevin Heller Commentary on True and False Religion Durham, North Carolina: Labyrinth, 1929. Read 9p.