It's been a joy to read your posts and follow your path, FK.
"...Perhaps the simplest statement of it (Calvinism) is the best: that it lies in a profound apprehension of God in His majesty, with the inevitably accompanying poignant realization of the exact nature of the relation sustained to Him by the creature as such, and particularly by the sinful creature. He who believes in God without reserve, and is determined that God shall be God to him in all his thinking, feeling, willing -- in the entire compass of his life activities, intellectual, moral, spiritual, throughout all his individual, social, religious relations -- is, by the force of that strictest of all logic which presides over the outworking of principles into thought and life, by the very necessity of the case, a Calvinist..."
Wonderful, Dr. E!
Thank you so much for the kind words, Dr. E., and for another wonderful article. I read every word of it. I particularly liked Warfield's "tempest in a teapot" treatment of the differences between Calvinism and Lutheranism. I didn't know how that worked. I learned a lot, thanks again. :)