Believers in union with Christ. Into an ideological argument. Scholarship, in its attempt to do Calvin justice, often perpetuates this very caricature. Battle lines are drawn. Defenses are fortified.

(RNS) — Wyatt Reynolds spent years trying to save his soul. As a 7-year-old, he prayed nightly before bed. He went to church faithfully in his south Georgia community but was never convinced that he ...