personalistic interpretation of reality.”35 Calvin began his Institutes by saying that the knowledge of oneself is dependent on the knowledge of God and vice versa. His doctrine of predestination, far from being an impersonal determinism, placed man in a person-to-person relationship with God in every event of nature and history.36 We noted in the previous section that to deny God’s self-contained fullness is to assert impersonalism. Recall particularly Van Til’s argument that the denial of divine