kingdom of God and the world (a view of a cultural mandate), and (7) a distinctive view of preaching.6 One cannot help but wonder how these characteristics are peculiarly “Reformed” in the traditional sense of the word. De Witt notes this himself on the last point: “There is much that all evangelicals, from whatever period of history, have in common here. That, of course, is true with respect to the other areas I have mentioned as well.”7 In evangelicalism today the distinctions that set the Reformed