Intro to the common grace debate?

[RamistThomist]

What are some resources for learning about the common grace debate in Dutch Calvinism? I have in mind guys like Hoeksema, Schilder, Kuyper, Mouw, etc.

 

[Nate]

Here are two treatments from the Hoeksema/PRC viewpoint.

http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_76.html

https://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_55.html

 

[greenbaggins]

Van Til's Common Grace and the Gospel is excellent from a proponent of common grace.

 

[Alan D. Strange]

Lexham Press is publishing in English translation Abraham Kuyper: Collected Works in Public Theology (12 vols.). Volumes 1-3 are on Common Grace, though only v. 1 has been published. I have the 5 volumes that are published in the series and it is well worth having.

Peace,
Alan

 

[yeutter]

Rev. Keister's recommendation of VanTil and Professor Strange's recommendation of Kuyper are excellent places to start. When I studied some of the questions related to Common Grace, I came to realize a number of definitions have been used over the years. Hoeksema, Danhof and perhaps Schilder were responding to a definition of Common Grace used in a CRC Synod report in 1924. Other theologians, both before and after 1924, have used other definitions of 'Common Grace.'

 

[RamistThomist]

Lexham Press is publishing in English translation Abraham Kuyper: Collected Works in Public Theology (12 vols.). Volumes 1-3 are on Common Grace, though only v. 1 has been published. I have the 5 volumes that are published in the series and it is well worth having.

Peace,
Alan

I know. I just wish the Kindle version weren't as expensive as some of the hard copies. I want the Pro Rege ones. Are they good?

 

[RamistThomist]

Van Til's Common Grace and the Gospel is excellent from a proponent of common grace.

I think I read that two years ago. I'll check my notes.

 

[Nate]

If you're looking for Hoeksema's own book on common grace, check out Sin & Grace (https://rfpa.org/products/sin-and-grace, ebook available too). Otherwise, the first link in my previous post is Hoeksema's distillation of his views in a (free) booklet.

 

[Alan D. Strange]

I think that the publication of Kuyper's Public Theology is fascinating and timely. I don't agree, of course, with all his particulars but find it (including the Pro Rege vols) endlessly captivating, without any equal of which I am aware (i.e., an extended Calvinistic engagement of these questions in the modern era). His volume on the church, e.g., argues for something like a proper spirituality of the church and not the kind of political captivity (from either end of the spectrum) from which the church often suffers these days. I would commend it especially to my brethren in the PCA as they deal with many issues of public theology.

Peace,
Alan