In a recent essay on the shape of the Reformed tradition, the distinguished historian of doctrine, Brian Gerrish, writes that “Schleiermacher was the greatest theologian of the Reformed church between Calvin and Barth.” Of all the other theologians between these two giants of the Reformed tradition, he maintains that “only Jonathan Edwards comes close.”1 Elsewhere, he goes as far as to say that Edwards is the greatest theologian in the English-speaking world.2 Even