The ongoing recovery of Reformed theology over the past few decades has been a rousing success. This resourcement project has thankfully begun moving us past the somewhat anachronistic pop Calvinism of the late 20th century to the rich theology the Reformers actually held.
This retrieval project, however, has tended to focus on doctrines that do not pose as much of a threat to the pieties of modern America. For example, the Reformers’ classic two kingdoms theology, which is taught in every Reformed confession, is typically either conflated with the idiosyncratic views of much later theologians or is castigated as theocratic and therefore anti-American.
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