Calvinism and Republicanism (Book Review: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination) (8)

In my previous writing I made plain that when Boettner wrote that final chapter of his book -- a chapter that bears the title, Calvinism in History, -- he had not before his eye reality but roved in a dream world of his own creation, in a world that with the light of truth focused upon it evaporates into thin air and disappears except in the mind of the dreamer. The view encountered in that last section of Boettner's book is that "democracy was born of Christianity" that the successful striving...