What’s the Issue?
The London Lyceum just published Dr. Nate Brooks’s review of Heath Lambert’s book Biblical Counseling and Common Grace. You can read Dr. Brooks’s full review here: Biblical Counseling and Common Grace: A Review by Nate Brooks. You can learn about Heath’s book here.
What’s the issue?
Biblical counselors disagree on how the biblical doctrine of common grace relates to the biblical doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. 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” explains this…and explains why, and in what ways, it may be possible for Christians to learn from non-Christians.
The central question is, “What is the relationship between common grace, the noetic effect of sin, scientific research, secular psychology, and the sufficiency of Scripture?”
Heath Lambert’s View
Dr. Brooks summarizes Lambert’s take on common grace and biblical counseling.
“Heath Lambert’s Biblical Counseling and Common Grace is a work inspired
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