This makes orthodoxy conservative. But this is the question: Is orthodoxy fighting for a life principle, or merely for a few incidental consequences deduced from this principle? If the former, then orthodoxy will live. If the latter, it will die. There are only two principles that carry within themselves a characteristic world, an entirely distinctive world: eternal election and humanism. As long as orthodoxy does not choose between them with self-conscious decisiveness, then through its own fault