well in the past necessarily meets present concerns with nothing more to be said or formulated in a new situation. Treasures old and new will, hopefully, be discovered, judged not by their age but by their adequacy and faithfulness to the divine drama. Our precritical forebears will be treated here as important, though not definitive. Much has happened since Ursinus and Turretin, and these erudite Christian thinkers would be among the first to insist that we take account of progress in relevant disciplines.