There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

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?

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

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

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.