But that does not explain why Calvinism should be the preferred theology of the house churches and the intellectuals now.

The story she told of the spread of Calvinist religion as an elite religion in China was quite extraordinary.

The idea of a Calvinistic Evangelist would not have struck anyone as surprising in the 16th, 17th, 18th, or 19th Century.

Somehow in the 20th Century, perhaps because of the pragmatic revivalism that resulted from the second great awakening, Calvinism became disassociated with evangelism.

The rise of secularism and the decline of Christian nominalism has caused a generation of young people to rise to find something they can pin their lives on –they have looked to the Calvinists.