" Faith preceded understanding, and so faith informed and shaped understanding. Working from this principle, Kuyper insisted that reason, natural science, and methodological naturalism were not ideologically neutral. Even the most technical of natural sciences, he observed, operated within the framework of the faith, or higher commitments, of the practitioner. "

― George M. Marsden , The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief