unabated. Even though it cannot be said that Barth’s criticism exerted great influence, his considerations nevertheless gave rise to new reflection and a tremendous number of publications. But one should not think that it was only Barth’s criticism that evoked new reflection. In the Netherlands there is also a controversy about infant baptism in the Reformed churches—not, to be sure, about its justifiability, but about the background of infant baptism, involving such questions as the connection between