A Word from Bob
You’re reading Part 2 of a two-part blog mini-series on Cornelius Van Til and common grace. In Part 1, I focused on Van Til’s assessment of Kuyper and Bavinck: Van Til, Kuyper, Bavinck, and Biblical Counselors: An Assessment. In that post, I asked and answered the questions:
Can biblical counselors legitimately follow the common grace teachings of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck? Or, as some claim, to be a true biblical counselor, must we only follow the teachings of Cornelius Van Til on common grace?
Here in Part 2, I’m focusing on Van Til’s belief’s about common grace, especially related to the use or non-use of findings from non-Christians. I’ve taken these quotes from Van Til’s book, Common Grace and the Gospel.
Introducing Common Grace
In Reformed Christian theology, unregenerate persons are totally depraved and all of their thinking is seen as under the noetic (mind) impact of sin and fallenness.
Yet, also in Reformed thinking, the unregenerate/unsaved person can make valid contributions to society, culture, the arts, research, science, and more.
How can these two truths be held together at one time?
The Reformed doctrine of common grace
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