Gregory Graybill charts the progression of Phillipp Melanchthon's position on free will and divine predestination as he shifts from agreement to an important innovation upon Martin Luther's thought and demonstrates how he came to believe that the human will does play a key role in the origins of a saving faith in Jesus Christ. The author has done us a service here, in giving us a pious and useful context in which to ponder the work of a brilliant if flawed theologian.