Calvin On Common Grace
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- Title
- Calvin On Common Grace
- Publication year listed
- 1928
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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About this book
Calvin On Common Grace
Author: Kuiper, Herman
Year: 1928
Kuiper (1889-1963) was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church (C.R.C.) and a professor at Calvin Seminary. Kuiper studied under Louis Berkhof, A.A. Hodge, Geerhardus Vos and B.B. Warfield. This work of his was historically significant during the debates that followed the C.R.C.’s assertion of the 3 Points of Common Grace in 1924. This is a detailed and careful work (being an anthology of extended quotes with analysis) documenting that John Calvin explicitly, repeatedly and frequently taught throughout his Institutes and commentaries that: (1) God gives common grace to all men, (2) that God’s common grace in the Covenant extends to the reprobate, and (3) that God desires all men to embrace the gospel and be saved. Read Calvin for yourself and see what he says. The appendix to the book gives a survey of the doctrine of common grace in the theological writings (many of which remain in Latin or Dutch) of Peter van Mastricht, Johannes Marck, Wilhelmus a Brakel, Bernhardinus de Moor, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge, A.A. Hodge, Herman Bavinck, Abraham Kuyper and V. Hepp. Kuiper’s work is very hard to come buy on the used market, if it is available at all, and is very pricey if one c