"Latin Christianity's views on free will and grace are often contrasted with predestination in Reformed Protestant Christianity, especially after the Counter-Reformation, but in understanding differing conceptions of free will it is just as important to understand the differing conceptions of the nature of God, focusing on the idea that God can be all-powerful and all-knowing even while people continue to exercise free will, because God transcends time.The papal encyclical on human freedom, "Libertas Praestantissimum" by Pope Leo XIII (1888), seems to leave the question unresolved as to the relation between free will and determinism