Common Grace: God's Gifts for a Fallen World, Volume 1 (Kuyper)

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Kuyper, Abraham

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672

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In Common Grace Abraham Kuyper presents to the church a vision for cultural engagement rooted in the humanity Christians share with the rest of the world.

Kuyper fills a gap in the development of Reformed teaching on divine grace, and he articulates a Reformed understanding of God's gifts that are common to all people after the fall into sin. This first volume contains Kuyper’s demonstration of the biblical basis for common grace and how it works.

Contents

Editors’ Introduction by Jordan J. Ballor and Stephen J. Grabill
Volume Introduction by Richard J. Mouw
Introduction
The Starting Point of the Doctrine of Common Grace
The Noahic Covenant Was Not Particular
The Spiritual and Practical Significance of the Noahic Covenant
The Blessings of the Noahic Covenant
The Ordinances of the Noahic Covenant
The Protection of Human Life
The Institution of Captial Punishment
Government and Capital Punishment
Further Objections to Capital Punishment
The Institution of Government Authority
A New Dispensation
From Noah Back to Paradise
The Paradise Story as Historical Narrative
The State of Righteousness
The Original Life Span
The Tree of Life
Natural or Supernatural?
The Crown of Creation
Perfect Integrity
Original Righteousness
Conscience and Covenant of Works
The Basis for Further Development
The Language of Paradise
The Probationary Command
Being Like God
Knowing as Making One’s Own Assessment
“You Shall Surely Die”
In That Day
Forms of Grace
Doom and Grace
Placing Enmity
Re-creation
Depravity Restrained in the Heart
Depravity Restrained in the Body
Depravity Restrained in Nature
From Paradise to the Flood (Part 1)
From Paradise to the Flood (Part 2)
The Flood: Judgment and Act of Grace
After the Flood
The Tower of Babel
The Confusion of Language
Abraham’s Calling Is Universalistic
Abraham’s History
Abraham and Melchizedek
Isolation Merely an Interlude
The Great Mystery
No Oasis in the Wilderness
Symbol and Type
Israel for the Sake of the Nations
Jehovah and the Nations
The Messiah and Israel
The Light in the Darkness
The Baptist
The Tiny Sparks in the Gentile World
The Tiny Sparks Extinguished
The Preference of the Gentiles
The Continued Effect of Decay
The Fixed Pattern of the Progression of Evil
The Process of Sin
The Final Judgment
The Abiding Profit
Fruit for Eternity
The Coherence between This Life and the Future Life
The Connection between This Life and Eternal Life
The Congruence between the Life Here and the Life Hereafter
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Series Editors

Jordan J. Ballor (ThD, University of Zurich; PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary) is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets and Morality. He is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Melvin Flikkema (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is Senior Advisor at the Acton Institute. He coordinated the translation of the Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. He was previously the Provost of Kuyper College.

About the Author

Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was one of the most extraordinary individuals of his time. A prolific intellectual and theologian, he founded the Free University in Amsterdam and was instrumental in the development of Neo-Calvinism. He was also an active politician, serving as a member of Parliament in the Netherlands beginning in 1874 and serving as Prime Minister from 1901 to 1905.

At this intersection of church and state, he devoted much of his writing towards developing a public theology. His passion was to faithfully understand and engage culture through a Christian worldview. The most famous example is his articulation of the doctrine of common grace. His work has influenced countless others, including Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, and Alvin Plantinga.