A Word from Bob
For Part 1 of this series on Kuyper and common grace, see, Abraham Kuyper on Common Grace. For a collation of all of my posts on common grace, see, 10 Reformed Theologians on Common Grace.
Limited Common Grace?
Some Christians who are just beginning a cursory reading of the Reformed doctrine of common grace fail to understand how all-encompassing common grace is. They do not realize that common grace impacts every square inch of human existence.
Likewise, some biblical counselors want to limit the reach and impact of common grace. However, they fail to understand how Reformed theologians inescapably link together common grace, God’s affectionate sovereignty over everything, God’s glory in everything, Christ’s lordship over all creation, the Creation Mandate/Cultural Mandate, grace and nature, and the body and soul.
Richard Mouw, in his “Introduction” to Abraham Kuyper’s seminal three-volume set, Common Grace, explains well how Kuyper saw the comprehensive nature of common grace.
“If some Christians in the English-speaking world only know one thing about Kuyper, it is likely his oft-quoted manifesto: ‘There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not
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