of the emerging Enlightenment philosophy to demonstrate that, far from undermining traditional orthodoxy, the new ideas actually undergirded and reinforced the sort of Reformed faith with which he aligned himself. Gerrish’s estimate of the relative importance of Schleiermacher, Barth, and Calvin is common enough among historians of Reformed doctrine. But the inclusion of Edwards as a thinker next only to Schleiermacher in theological importance between the polestars of the French Reformer and the