in Christian causes must not lead us to “neglect to ask whether we ourselves are truly converted and whether we belong to Christ in life and in death. For this is indeed what life boils down to.” This ultimate question is the truly urgent one. Bavinck goes on to gently rebuke certain Reformed folk who take untoward pride in their confessional identity, and even smugly assure themselves that they are not the equivalent of today’s “evangelicals” or perhaps even “fundamentalists.” “We may not banish