reconciling “Christian cosmology” with “Christian sociology” by portraying all of social reality as under the ordering rule of God.16 Wolin may be overstating the case, but he is right at least about some overall emphases. Calvin and his followers have typically given more attention than other Protestants to the fact of a divinely instituted social order. And Kuyper clearly stands in this tradition, emphasizing with other Calvinists the “spear sovereignty” role of the state in ordering the rest of