Anselm of Canterbury's final treatise reconciling divine foreknowledge, predestination, and grace with human free will.
God's knowledge of future contingents is not temporally prior — God is outside time, so his knowledge does not causally constrain human choice. Predestination is compatible with free will if predestination is understood as God's eternal will that persons will do good freely.
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