Why have Reformed Christians had to go elsewhere at times to seek the mystical vitality or sacramental depth they found lacking in Reformed worship and piety? It has to do, in part, with the split character of Reformed thought that I have described in comparing Calvin’s and Turretin’s theologies of creation. If one understands Reformed theology, after Turretin’s model, as primarily absorbed with predestination and God’s overwhelming work of redemption, viewing original sin as distorting every aspect of the created order, there is little reason to seek God in the natural world. If, on the other
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