would rate them all below his first allegiance, to Calvinism—better, to apostolic Christianity, of which Calvinism was the purest distillation. (Kuyper was never modest on that line, but then neither were the champions of every other Christian tradition, especially in his era.) Even better yet: to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, revealed ultimately in Jesus Christ as recorded in Scripture and evident throughout creation. Kuyper’s self-description as Calvinist is insufficient, however, since