{"id":112971,"date":"2024-11-22T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112971"},"modified":"2024-11-22T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:09:41","slug":"john-frame-on-common-grace-biblical-counseling-and-christian-integrative-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=112971","title":{"rendered":"John Frame on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Christian Integrative Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post continues my two-year study on common grace. For a blog post that collates all of that research, see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2024\/07\/10-reformed-theologians-on-common-grace\/\"><em>Reformed Theologians on Common Grace<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Frame (1939) is a Calvinist theologian known especially for his work in presuppositional apologetics and systematic theology. He was a student of Cornelius Van Til and is one of the foremost interpreters of Van Til.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s post not only explores Frame\u2019s thinking on common grace, but it also delves into his thinking on how common grace relates to biblical counseling and Christian integrative counseling.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Introducing Common Grace<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, also in Reformed thinking, the unregenerate\/unsaved person can make valid contributions to society, culture, the arts, research, science, and more.<\/p>\n<p>How can these two truths be held together at one time?<\/p>\n<p>The Reformed doctrine of common grace explains how we can hold to both truths. It also explains how to engage with and evaluate common grace resources using the lens\/spectacles of God\u2019s all-sufficient Word.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Defining Common Grace<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>John Frame defines common grace succinctly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cCommon grace is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Frame, the student and interpreter of Van Til, concludes that, \u201cthe sufficiency of Scripture is compatible with the need to integrate Scripture with extrabiblical data.\u201d What do you think?<br \/>\nThe post John Frame on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Christian Integrative Counseling appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":112977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4994,6144],"class_list":["post-112971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-common-grace","tag-john-frame","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John-Frame-Books-4.jpg?fit=369%2C522&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112978,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112971\/revisions\/112978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}