How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.