“In the year 1898 Abraham Kuyper, founder of the Free University of Amsterdam, delivered the L. P. Stone lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary at Princeton Theological Seminary. The title of his lectures was ‘Calvinism.’ In more comprehensive form than it had been done by any in modern times Kuyper presented Calvinism as Christianity ‘Come to its Own.’ In his audience sat Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield.

A little later Dr. Herman Bavinck, professor of Dogmatics at the Free University of Amsterdam, delivered the Stone lectures at Princeton. The title of his lectures was ‘The Philosophy of Revelation.’ So far as I know Dr. Warfield listened to Dr. Bavinck as he listened to Dr. Kuyper. Another man present at both Kuyper’s and Bavinck’s lectures, was Dr. Geerhardus Vos, professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Here were four great exponents of Calvinism. All of them were exponents of Calvinism because for them Calvinism was ‘Christianity Come to its Own.’

But what does it mean when we say that Christianity come to its own? We meant that Calvinism more truly and more fully than in Romanism or in other forms of Protestantism does Christ come to his own. Calvinism is more Christ-centered than any other form of Christian witness. To be a true Christian is to believe Jesus when he says that he is the way the truth and the life. He was and is the way, the truth and the life as the Son of God and son of man. Jesus said he was one with the father who had sent him into the world. The Pharisees charged him with blasphemy when he declared himself to be the Son of God. Jesus spoke and apostles spoke of the Holy Spirit as one with the Son and the Father. In short what it means to say that Calvinism is Christianity come to its own is to be more God-centered as well as more Christ-centered than other forms of Christianity. It is the triune God of Scripture who in the counsels of eternity decided to create and redeem for himself a people, and in doing so, to reconcile all things to himself.” — Cornelius Van Til, Why Westminster Today (1970)