{"id":51028,"date":"2022-08-10T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51028"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:30:59","slug":"herman-bavinck-on-common-grace-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51028","title":{"rendered":"Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s post, I shared with you a collation of quotations on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/08\/7-reformed-theologians-on-common-grace\/\">7 Reformed Theologians on \u201cCommon Grace.\u201d<\/a><\/em> That included what John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, John Murray, John Frame, Charles Hodges, Tim Keller, and R.C. Sproul said about common grace and <strong>what believers can learn from unbelievers<\/strong>. As those quotes showed, the Reformed doctrine of common grace explains how unsaved, unregenerate, totally depraved people under the noetic impact of sin can still make a legitimate contribution to culture, to the arts, to science, to research, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we add quotes and thoughts from an 8th reformed theologian\u2014Herman Bavinck\u2014on \u201ccommon grace.\u201d Today\u2019s set of quotes are from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bavinck, Herman. <a href=\"https:\/\/bavinckinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Herman-Bavinck-Common-Grace.pdf\">\u201cHerman Bavinck\u2019s \u2018Common Grace.\u201d<\/a> Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, Translator. <em>Calvin Theological Journal, 24<\/em>(1), April 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Good Gift of Common Grace<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Bavinck, following Calvin, taught that common grace is the source of all human virtue and accomplishment, even that of unbelievers who have not been regenerated by the salvific grace of God (Inst., 2.2.12-17) Bavinck\u2019s view of common grace articulates a theological worldview that enables us to acknowledge the importance of creation and human culture as good gifts of God that not only form the arena of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the Reformed theologian, Herman Bavinck, teach us about the Christian&#8217;s understanding and use of science and research?<br \/>\nThe post Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 1 appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51030,"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":[4994,4168],"class_list":["post-51028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-common-grace","tag-herman-bavinck","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\/2022\/08\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028","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=51028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51031,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions\/51031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}