And as North American evangelicals, we tended to be deaf to Kuyper’s own, thicker ecclesiology. So Resident Aliens was apocalyptic for me in the sense of unveiling the deformative power of those other spheres of life we were so eager to affirm and transform. Many of my generation, I think, received this antithesis as a dichotomy: church instead of state. We would devote ourselves to setting up an “alternative polis,” the liberal democratic state be damned. I don’t think this was the authors’ intention,