{"id":51678,"date":"2022-08-31T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51678"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:20:20","slug":"john-calvin-on-common-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51678","title":{"rendered":"John Calvin on \u201cCommon Grace\u201d"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/08\/7-reformed-theologians-on-common-grace\/\"><em>7 Reformed Theologians on \u201cCommon Grace<\/em>.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my second post, I added quotes from an 8th reformed theologian\u2014<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>.<\/p>\n<p>In my third post, I continued with additional posts from Bavinck on common grace\u2014<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2022\/08\/herman-bavinck-on-common-grace-part-2\/\">Herman Bavinck on \u201cCommon Grace,\u201d Part 2<\/a><\/em>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Introducing \u201cCommon Grace\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/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 \u201ccommon grace\u201d explains this\u2026and explains why it is possible for Christians to learn from non-Christians.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>John Calvin on the Unbelieving Mind<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The reformer, John Calvin, insisted that it is the Spirit of God who establishes all human competence in arts and sciences<strong> \u201cfor the common good of mankind\u201d <\/strong>and that common grace is a tool given by God that should not be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are John Calvin&#8217;s views of how the believer might engage with the thinking, studies, and ideas of the unbeliever?<br \/>\nThe post John Calvin on \u201cCommon Grace\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51680,"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":[4995,4994],"class_list":["post-51678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-calvin","tag-common-grace","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-5.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51678","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=51678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51681,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51678\/revisions\/51681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}