Calvin and Revolution: “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination,” by Loraine Boettner (7)

The title that Boettner gave to the last chapter of his book is, "Calvin in history". What he endeavors to prove in this final section of his book is that Calvinism is the "creator of the modern world", that "our pres­ent Christian civilization is but the fruitage of Calvin­ism". Let us attend to the author's reasonings re­specting this matter. Under the sub-title "Calvinism in America" one comes upon statements such as these: "History is elo­quent in declaring that American democracy was born...