Common Grace: God's Gifts for a Fallen World, Volume 2 (Kuyper)

• Editors’ Introduction
• Volume Introduction by Craig G. Bartholomew
• The Purpose of this Doctrinal Inquiry
• The Problem to Be Solved
• The Solution according to Unbelievers
• Why Is this Solution Unsatisfactory?
• The Solution from the Roman Catholic Side
• The Reformed Point of Departure
• The Tempering of Sin
• The Anabaptist Solution
• The Unbridled Operation of the Curse
• Common Grace Grounded in Creation
• Common Grace and Predestination
• Predestination in Connection with “All Things”
• The Connection between Predestination and Creation
• Triumph over Satan
• He Dwelt among Us
• He Dwelt among Israel
• Born of a Woman
• Jesus’ Increase
• Jesus’ Environment
• Jesus and Rome’s Administration of Justice
• Jesus and the Preparation of the World
• Christ and World History
• The Fullness of Time
• Common Grace and the Life of Grace
• Preparatory Grace
• Immediate Regeneration
• Common Grace in Our Genealogy
• Common Grace in Our Upbringing
• Vocation and One’s Lot in Life
• The Means of Grace
• The Effect of Particular Grace on Common Grace
• The Church as Institution and as Organism
• The National Church
• The Effect of the Church on the World
• A City Set on a Hill
• Common Grace in Sanctification
• The Grafting of the Wild Tree
• Moral Good in the Unregenerate
• Two Kinds of Self
• The Twofold Will
• It Is God Who Sanctifies Us
• Self-Purification
• The Conduct of Believers in the World
• A Necessary and Dangerous Dualism
• The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
• Common Grace and God’s Providential Ordination
• The Counsel of God
• Transcendence and Immanence
• Providence and Creation
• Bound Yet Free
• God’s Working through Means
• The Spiritual Forces of Evil
• The Manifestation of God’s Wrath
• Second Nature
• The Tempering of the Curse
• Nature Is Not Irreligious
• Man and Animal
• Instinctive Action
• The Use of Means
• Against the Curse
• Rebuke and Wrath
• Death Is an Enemy to Be Opposed
• The Unholy Character of All Affliction
• Curse and Creation
• Derailment
• The Flood and the Ark
• Finding the Means
• Precautionary Measures
• Suffering as Solidarity
• The Vaccination against Cowpox (1)
• The Vaccination against Cowpox (2)
• Insurance
• Insurance (2)
• Insurance (3)
• Insurance (4)
• Insurance (5)
• Insurance (6)
• Insurance (7)
• Suffering and Guilt
• The Course of the Ages
• The Close of the Age
• The Manifestation of the Image of God
• The Two Spheres of Life Intermingled
• The Contact between the Spheres
• Common Grace and the Son of God
• The Elect to Eternal Life
• The Purpose of the Church on Earth
• Christian Civilization
• The Completion of Common Grace
• The Influences of Common Grace on Particular Grace 

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.