{"id":51047,"date":"2022-08-10T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51047"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T11:31:09","slug":"herman-bavinck-on-common-grace-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51047","title":{"rendered":"Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading part of a series of posts on <em>Reformed thinking on \u201ccommon grace.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my first post, I shared 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>In my second post, I added quotes from an 8th reformed theologian: <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/08\/herman-bavinck-on-common-grace-part-1\/\"><em>Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 1<\/em><\/a>. I derived that post from: 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>Today, I continue with additional posts from Bavinck on common grace. Many of the quotes in this post are from: Bavinck, Herman. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monergism.com\/thethreshold\/sdg\/pdf\/bavinck_commongrace.pdf\">\u201cCalvin and Common Grace.\u201d<\/a> Geerhardus Vos, Translator. <em>The Princeton Theological Review<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>(3), 1909, 437-465.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Calvin and Bavinck on God\u2019s Gifts to All People<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Bavinck presents Calvin as delicately balancing the two scriptural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the Reformed theologian, Herman Bavinck, teach us about the Christian\u2019s view of the non-Christian\u2019s work in the arts, science, research, and other fields?<br \/>\nThe post Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 2 appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51049,"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":[5000,4994,4168],"class_list":["post-51047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-bavinck","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-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51047","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=51047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51050,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51047\/revisions\/51050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}