G. C. Berkouwer (1903–1996)

is largely motivated by the pastoral concern to protect the congregation from the uncertainties and fear of a harsh presentation of election, predestination, and related themes.... [It] evidences a wealth of knowledge; its doctrine is unmistakably Calvinistic; and yet some of its hesitations and fears seem to be unfounded. Most of the dangers that he mentions have no doubt actually occurred, as in the writings of a certain Snethlage whom he mentions; these dangers could possibly be more common in Holland than in the United States; but so far as the present writer's experience goes, it would seem that the greater and far more common dangers are those of an opposite tendency. (Religion, Reason, and Revelation in Christian Philosophy, pp. 264-265)