Results 241 to 250 of about 678,091 (299)

Grace is Common

Life of the Spirit, 1953
It is a strange fact of history that the Church does not escape some loss when she has to engage in doctrinal controversy. So much has been gained, such steps forward; in the clarification of doctrine made, that it is only after a period of years that the suspicion grows that the whole truth has not yet been said.
openaire   +1 more source

Kuyper’s Common Grace and Kelsey

Journal of Reformed Theology, 2016
“Common grace” has played an important but disputed role in the Reformed tradition’s picture of God’s relationship to the creation. While providing a theological foundation for many Calvinists’ cultural engagement, certain ambiguities and issues plague the concept.
openaire   +1 more source

Communism, Calvinism, and Common Grace: Reflecting on Marxism and Christianity

2021
Review essay of "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" by Rod Dreher and "Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition" by Roland Boer.
openaire   +1 more source

Common Grace as a Hermeneutical Approach to Globalization?

Philosophia Reformata, 2015
The reformed theologian Max L. Stackhouse develops a differentiated analysis and interpretation of globalization as part of his public theology. He consistently refers to Kuyper's concept of common grace and transfers Kuyper's teaching into a hermeneutical approach to sociological analysis.
openaire   +1 more source

The Holy Spirit, Common Grace, and Secular Psychotherapy

Journal of Psychology and Theology, 2012
This paper seeks to demonstrate how the Holy Spirit, through common grace, may be actively working and using secular psychotherapy in light of the dual reality of belief and unbelief in this world. The Triune God desires to bring a world fallen in sin to his desired goal of reconciliation with Him through the redemptive work of Christ. The Holy Spirit
openaire   +1 more source

Reason, Will, and Common Grace

2003
Abstract Begins the second part of the book, examining Hooker’s views on the relation of grace to the human reason and will, in this case from the perspective of non-Christians, who are not in receipt of sanctifying grace. This permits a study of Hooker’s views on human nature, natural law, and original sin, and it is argued that ...
openaire   +1 more source

Equity, Natural Law, and Common Grace

2004
Abstract Takes up again the question of our natural knowledge of God. Is there for Calvin a natural knowledge of God's law? Was Calvin a Divine Command Theorist in ethics? It is argued that he was not, except in possibly a rather secondary sense, but that he broadly followed the contours of the mediaeval natural law outlook.
openaire   +1 more source

Toward a Common Grace Christian Bioethics: A Reformed Protestant Engagement with H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Christian Bioethics, 2014
This article should be thought to be more of an engagement with the Christian bioethics approach of Engelhardt as opposed to a response. There is much in Engelhardt’s critique of secular bioethics and his proposal for Christian bioethics that is right-headed and insightful.
Smith, Patrick T., Jotterand, Fabrice
openaire   +2 more sources

The Grace of the Common Life: Traditional Conservatism

1993
Abstract The key concerns that a Christian brings to political thought have now been developed. We have articulated criteria by which various political viewpoints can be critically analyzed from the standpoint of Christian theology. Now we will use these categories to evaluate major options in contempory political ideologies.
openaire   +1 more source

Creation And Salvation: Revisiting Kuyper’s Notion Of Common Grace

2011
[ Kuyper may not have worked out this pattern of telling the story of God's work—of creation, fallen creation and re-creation—in full detail. Although this essay is based on rather sketchy handwritten notes by Arnold van Ruler, in the author's view it is one of the best maps of the terrain that he has come across.
openaire   +1 more source