concept of grace, it does not seem to me to say with sufficient acuteness what should be said at this point. In trying to understand me under this title, it is perhaps inevitable that Berkouwer should develop the suspicions to which he gives utterance in this volume. He has well seen my initial and constant concern to display the superiority of God and His saving will and Word and work over the ruinous defensiveness and rejection, over the power of chaos, which meets Him on the part of the creature.