Kuyper on common grace in view of the world Read more

This post is part of a series walking through the second volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace. Kuyper begins chapter 42 with a recap of holiness at the core of the person as compared with our sinful external actions, unfortunately using the example of skin color [sigh]. Though, as the footnote points out, Kuyper doesn’t draw value judgments here. Also as it points out, Kuyper does draw such judgments elsewhere. The point of this all is that we are getting into... Read more

This post is part of a series walking through the second volume of Abraham Kuyper’s Common Grace. Continuing his discussion of the nature of the person, Kuyper reiterates that the regenerate are not two ‘persons’, but rather are two ‘selves.’ Or possibly ‘selfs,’ I’m not sure. We’ve seen that the one may be dormant until conversion, but there is more that distinguishes them than that feature. We know this because even the converted is split–part is driven by the new man,... Read more

Kuyper on the effect of regeneration on our inner and outer selves Read more

Kuyper on how bad people do good things Read more