terms: as a result of the Fall, cultural obedience was replaced by cultural disobedience, resulting in a distortion of the cultural activity for which we were created. To be redeemed from sin, then, is to be restored to the patterns of obedient cultural formation for which we were created. This restorative motif looms large in the way Kuyper describes Christ’s redemptive mission: Can we imagine that at one time God willed to rule things in a certain moral order, but that now, in Christ, He wills