between the Reformers and the Protestant scholastics: Calvin, according to Brunner, “firmly rejects the scholastic idea of Omnipotence,” while the Protestant scholastics affirm it; the Reformers strongly associated divine omniscience with providence, understood as the “loving sympathy” of God for the world, and with election, while the later scholastics generally “ignored” the doctrine of omniscience.10 Did Brunner ever read sixteenth- and seventeenth-century documents? One wonders. The exposition