theology. Naturally, this preparatory knowledge was utilized in theological education. Regarding freedom, the subject of this book, the character of this conceptual analysis can be described even more precisely. In addition to general logical arguments, the Reformed also used some kind of what we, in modern terms, would call a form of modal logic. A modal term is an expression (like “necessarily” or “possibly”) that is used to qualify the truth of a judgment.40 Modal logic is, strictly speaking,