that his way of understanding God’s relationship to sinful humanity quickly came to be called by the shorthand name, “Calvinism.”[12] The next two chapters will define what I intend to communicate when I speak of “Calvinism.” Much of the rest of the book attempts to explain and defend it. For now, though, I can say with B. B. Warfield, a nineteenth- and twentieth-century Calvinist theologian, that Whoever believes in God; whoever recognizes in the recesses of his soul his utter dependence on God;