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Printed in the United States of America and Indonesia CONTENTS Current Debates in Reformed Theology: Practice 5 Editorial: Did Arminius Win? / PAUL WELLS FAITH IN PRACTICE TODAY 9 On Serving God in Our Generation / DAVID MCKAY 7 2 Transgender: Trans-ition to Nowhere / PETER JONES 9 4 Sexuality and the Lost Proletariat / NOEL WEEKS 3 6 Genesis 2:24 and the New Covenant: A Profound Mystery / COLIN HAMER 81 Unio cum Christo and Reformed Complementarity / NATALIE BRAND 5 9 Lessons from the Reformation for Hermeneutics Today / HENK VAN DEN BELT REMEMBERING THE SYNOD OF DORT 111 The Theology of the Canons of Dort: A Reassessment after Four Hundred Years / ARNOLD HUIJGEN 129 Election: The Father’s Decision to Adopt / JASON VAN VLIET 145 Abundant Sufficiency and Intentional Efficacy: Particular Redemption at the Synod of Dort / LEE GATISS 316 The Documents of the Synod of Dort (1618–1619)—A New Edition / DONALD SINNEMA 3 4 UNIO CUM CHRISTO ›› UNIOCC.COM HISTORICAL STUDIES 5 17 The Perennity of Anselm’s Proslogion / YANNICK IMBERT 181 Pierre Viret: A Pastor and Ethicist for the Twenty-First Century / TIMOTHY BLOEDOW 1 20 John Calvin and Philip Melanchthon’s Sum of Theology / PAUL AND ALISON WELLS 209 Puritans on the Family: Recent Publications / JOEL R. BEEKE AND PAUL M. SMALLEY INTERVIEW 225 Interview with Peter Opitz / PETER A. LILLBACK BOOK REVIEWS 233 Robert Sherman. Covenant, Community, and the Spirit: A Trinitarian Theology of the Church / DONALD E. COBB 236 Herman Selderhuis. Martin Luther: A Spiritual Biography / EUNJIN KIM 923 Jonathan Willis. The Reformation of the Decalogue: Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c. 1485–1625 / HARRISON PERKINS 242 Matthew Barrett. The Grace of Godliness: An Introduction to Doctrine and Piety in the Canons of Dort / JEONG KOO JEON 245 David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson, eds. From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective / THOMAS HAVILAND-PABST 249 James P. Eglinton, ed. and trans. Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers / SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON 255 Contributors EDITORIAL Did Arminius Win? PAUL WELLS ome Calvinists may not be convinced, but Arminius won. We are of course talking about the spirit of Arminius, who had been in the tomb a good few years before his defenders’ Remonstrant theses were hotly debated at the Synod of Dort, of which this year marks the fourth centenary. Hence some contributions Srelevant to this theme appear in this issue of Unio cum Christo. Our present age likes nothing better than achievement, and the more spectacular the better. Even those of us who work mundane jobs know the danger of not performing as the statistics demand. Honorific and financial rewards are enormous for performance in business, politics, philanthropy, scientific research, popular culture, and sports. The stars of these worlds are the celebrities whose opinions are respected as having authority outside their fields, a modern fallacy if ever there was one—what do Hollywood