Chosen for What: A Lived Theology of Divine Election explores how differing understandings of chosenness and divine election have led to great harm and great good in this world through an exploration of why humans desire to be chosen, how the Biblical language about predestination and divine favor has been misappropriated, and how a revised doctrine of election can offer hope for the flourishing of all peoples. This project is less interested in finding a definitive way through the tensions within the doctrine of election that often occupy systematic theologians (human vs. divine agency, single vs. double predestination, do some need to be damned for others to be saved?, etc.) than in what happens when certain ideas about divine election are believed and embodied. Employing a Lived Theology methodology, the project explores the social consequences of religious belief by considering the complex interrelationship between ideas and actions, beliefs and behaviors, that collectively shape human societies. Engaging first-person accounts—both written and oral—this project invites those on the underside of power to share how their understanding of chosenness helps them to resist would-be oppressors. The goal of the project is to articulate that being chosen by God is not a license to dominate those we regard as others, but a gift that comes with a task—to work for the flourishing of all humanity.