forceful words strengthen the hearts of the Christians in Holland, no matter to what ecclesiastical tendency they may adhere.4 Two years later he wrote that Kuyper displayed a systematizing genius that is very rare’.5 Warfield’s enthusiasm for and propagation of Kuyper’s work may seem odd in view of the fact that these two theologians represent different figureheads, different sources of inspiration, in contemporary evangelical thought and reflection. As George Marsden has written: ‘In almost every